Life...in general: Few Months down... and its becoming routine

Life...in general: Few Months down... and its becoming routine

Few Months down... and its becoming routine

So i've been in Daejeon for about two months now. It has been a few months of exploration, eye opening culture shock, and settling of routines. I love my kids at the school I'm working at. The people I work with are wonderful. Overall my work experience has been truly delightful. Daejeon is an interesting city. There is so much to see and experience here. However, along with the positives there is a certain degree of acclimating to differences. Korean attitudes to people of color are quite blatant. It's not exactly discrimination in any form. Its more an ignorance. For example if I am walking down the streets with some of my white friends, Koreans will come greet them with exceptional delight, ignore me for the first half of the conversation. However, as soon as they become aware of the fact that I am from Canada and I'm an educator on par with their new white acquaintince; their first reaction is one of disbelief, from then onwards their attitude changes to one of cordiality. It is a frustrating experience to udergo again and again. Sigh... however aside from that rather depressing situation, I do adore this country and its people.

Minor hitches lead to Daejeon

So after having a couple of scheduled hitches in the original Korean expedition plan; namely irresponsible job offers, I have finally signed a contract and am in the process of getting reay to depart for Daejeon, South Korea, to teach at the Wonderland school there. I am a bit trepiditious but I guess this is how anyone feels when they are about to embark on a long and exotic journey. Wish me luck people.... Daejeon or bust!!

Korea, Korea, Korea...!!!

So I'm off to Korea to teach ESL. Yippe doo Kaiyay!! Hmm..., but the entire concept of teaching in a Coastal City (Busan or Pusan) in Korea is quite tempting. The culture, the language, the people... the alcohol. From all accounts the Koreans are a race that pride themselves on their alcohol. I guess my rite of passage will consist of having bowl shooters of Soju at a street corner Beer and Soju stand. All I can say is... bring it on baby!

Spring is here... well almost...

It's warming up!! Now don't get me wrong I love snow and winter as much as anyone can love it for the first month and a half. But I will be psyched when summer is here; pretty girls in ;ess clothing a great incentive. For the moment, howeve, we seemed to be stuck in the middle phase somewhere between the end of winter, and the full bloom of spring. Mushy! That's the only word I have for this time of the year.

Mmm... welcome to Unemployment... population 1

Mmm... well I quit...! Some say its gutsy; in truth I had very little choice. I was not making any money! I used to rant against the Capitalist-Industrial Complex through college and a bit of grad school. Now that I'm a member of the salaried work force I realize how little I really understood about the concept of monetary gain. It is an important criteria in life. We may think that money is solely an economic object, yet is by far the most defining factor in our lives. Our life, love, and happiness are in many ways centered around this concept of wealth. When looked from thbis perspective I guess money really does buy happiness to an extent. You don't necesarily need a lot of it to be happy but a sufficient amount is required.

Job today gone tomorrow....

It takes alot of effort to quit a job. I played around with the decision in my head for the longest time. On one hand I was scared of being vulnerable and unemployed. however, seeing how I'm essentially working and commuting for over 14 hours per day, and there are some days without any sales and concievably no money for me. Yeah I can earn alot on comissions, but comissions are a tenuous concept. Sometimes you are on a roll and the moolah rolls in. Other times it ca be a lean month or two. And its been a lean month for me. Thus I have come to a decision, even if it is a low paying salaried job, I need something with stable income and set hours rather than an exhausting daily workout without and cost effective guarantee. Life is so not a box of chocolates. It's rather the shit stain on the blanket that you try forever to get off... and best you can hope for is a faded yellow stain. Ok that made no sense to me either...

Whew... whither Tahir thy work is exhausting....

Wow... I left home at 9:50 am this morning and got back at 11:30 pm this evening. All I can say is...when your lounging time gets taken away you start craving milkshakes. Right now I want a Strawberry Vanilla Milkshake! Well I did meet some intersting people, and I'm definitely a captivating person they hung on my every word... either that or everyone I met today probably thought I was a psycho. I have been thinking of goals today. It sounds like a lame dream or aim but I'm so geared towards the entire white picket fence, kids, a wife, two cars, a dog, a cat, and a parakeet who ate the goldfish. I know it sounds cliche, but it's the kind of life I'd really like. It doesn't have to be a wealthy lifestyle, just a comfortable one...

Stability... that's what I crave. And love... I am a Libra; it's strange I really do desire love, not just the physical kind, but the whole emotional harlequin romance thingie. I want do that sweeping the girl off her feet and kissing her routine and living happily ever after. Then I get my fix of stale beer... and suddenly a titty bar doesn't sound too bad... I'm kidding. I do want romance... but we don't always get what we want in life.

Mornings...

I used to like coffee in the mornings... seriously with the all nighters in Grad School and College the brown bean became my best friend. But lately it seems like my little pill boost isn't working. I've actually resorted to drinking tea in the mornings. Seeing now that I have become a tea drinker, we are not prissy no matter how flowery the regency English made us look, I've been developing this craving for Boston Cremes in the morning. Ok this schpeel is going off in a tangent. I gotta get ready for work. Sigh... I want a job where I don't have to commute!

Oooh... DoD Source....

K... I'm becoming sucha gaming geek... seriously I gotta get away from gaming on my PC. I've been playing Day of Defeat Source and along with World of Warcraft its becoming my new crack. Though my lvl 42 night Elf Hunter... lvl 42 ppl... its pretty high... I know its not a lvl 60... but hello... still lvl 42..., anyhow. At least blowing up Krauts and Americans in a World War II scenario is a lot more fun then seeing some animated Night Elf doing the moonwalk and gyrating his hips in an unseemly fashion on your screen. God I'm a dork! A cute dork... but a dork nontheless.

If I had a quill and parchment... what would I write? I need a blackberry!!!

Ok seriously... I'm lazy! I don't know why. It's almost an instinctual predisposition. even if I have a job I like I'll still be a slacker. Sigh... maybe I'm cursed with the slacker syndrome. To make matters worse all the stupid financial mistakes of the past seem to surfacing just when I go through my lean month at work. Ah well... I miss college, you never really worried about stuff like this. It was stuff that could be taken care of later or something your folks would get to in due time. Ah the joys of adulthood.
Relationships are another indicator of maturity aren't they. But seriously sometimes I wonder is it possible to have a simple hetrosexual, romantic relationship with a woman without having to wade through half the crap, both emotional and otherwise. I'm not saying that women bring the emotional crap to the table, in most cases it tends to be the males in the relationship who are the emotional puissants. But really, c'mon how hard is it just to be open and honest about, "Hey I like you, we get along what are the chances of having dinner sometime?" Somehow such an unassuming statement seems to play off as "Do you want to sleep with me... do I want to sleep with you?" i mean sex is great and all and its important... but for once could we actually get part the getting to know each other part before deciding on which side of the bed we wanna roll over to.