Wow, it has been a couple fast weeks

I can't believe we are already halfway through August. We have the day off today because it is Gwangbokjeol, a holiday that celebrates Victory over Japan Day which also liberated Korea from Japan's colonial rule.

So far, everything at work has been great. The team I work with is filled with awesome guys, and just about everyone else I have met at school has been great. It has been frustrating adapting to a new school as I don't know much about Mac and the programs they use at school. But I have been learning and will eventually practice excellence just as I did at Nesbit. I hope everyone at Nesbit is doing well :-)

I have had a few occasions to go out in Korea. There was a gathering of expats a mile from my apartment that I attended last Friday. It was a fun time, and I met people from Ireland, Australia, Korea, France, Germany, and the USA. The beer is not as good in Korea but it still does the job. We talked and drank at the original place for a good 4 hours or so, and then headed to an expat bar to keep the party going. I guess it goes back to my days at Oswego (a small college in upstate NY), but I love walking around with a buzz. Not stumbling drunk and barely alive, but a nice happy buzz. The weather was beautiful and it just feels good to be alive. Anyway, the expat bar was fun, the drinking and talking continued plus we were able to catch some of the Olympics on TV. And they had Guinness on tap. Unfortunately I had to work the next day on Saturday, so at 2am I got up and headed home. I thought I knew where I was so I started walking. 30 minutes later I had no idea where I was so I took a taxi home. Thankfully I was not that far off from where I thought I was, and taxis in Korea are cheap as hell. The funniest thing is, the very next night I went to that bar with another friend, and realized that I was one turn away from being exactly where I thought I was. I even remembered from the night before that I stopped at that corner and couldn't decide which way to go. Regardless it was a fun mini-adventure.

I also was taken to an amazing Mexican restaurant. It was right up there with Los Hermanos. They have a much smaller menu, keeping it to simple stuff like tacos, burritos, quesadillas, etc. But they burrito I had was so good that I came back the next day and tried another one. It is called Dos Tacos and it is by Seohyeon Station if there are any locals reading this.

I am going to try and take some more pictures around my area and at school. Hopefully I will post more often than every two weeks. But, at least it is more than Grant and Jen did :-)