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“tee hee. he will be fine. i will just miss him like crazy :(

I am taking him kayaking tomorrow”

“is twignut still living with you? youll just have to pay her double attention”

“yeah right. we never see her anymore. she is still leaving at home and working but with new boy friend, she is gone from morning to night. late night

my nest will feel empty :(”

“I always suspected tree was gay.”

“How is the teaching going?”

““I always suspected tree was gay.”
hyway
11:37:29 AM
6/27/07


LMAO you are in rare form today”

“i like the teaching, but i would rather be teaching adults than a bunch of hyper elementary students. my 3 oclock kids on my day 1 schedule are horrible. i just look at this as putting in my time so that i can get experience to go towards getting a better job. i'd like to get a job with adults next, then after that i want to get a job in the states”

“10-4 crash...will put a pack in the mail.”

“thanks, bro.

more trailtalkers should be like you and send me things”

“i said MORE TRAILTALKERS SHOULD SEND ME THINGS

like hamburgers. and boobies. no one over here has large breasts. its disappointing”

“send me things”

“Yeah, CB that's the way to get me to send you things. Talk like an absolute sexist a$$hole!”

“pittsburgh sucks”

“Yeah right how many rings??”

“uranus has a lot of rings too, doesn't make it special”

“what have they done for you lately?”

“Got me a new coach, gave Hines A LOT of moolah to keep doing his thing! Got a new quarterback coach. Kept our defensive coordinator Lebeau. And they shut big mouth Chad Johnson up every game we play them!”

“wow. they might make the playoffs this year ~underwhelmed font~”

“but only if a certain qb turns around that 18 tds and TWENTYTHREE int stat line

meanwhile, my team will admire the most recent lombardi trophy, and a certain good ole boy from nawlins can admire his superbowl mvp and TWO league mvp awards
last edited: 6/28/07 5:31:22 PM”

“SCOTT....YGM”

“holy crap

tomorrow marks 1 month in korea

anyway, heres some more pictures. these are of wolchul-san national park

”

“that looks like some neat terrain!”

“holy crap it was really hard work. i made less than 1 mile an hour”

“i wish i could hike at whereever you took shot #27. nice rock staircase.
didya go all the way to the top?”

“i went to the top of a couple of different peaks. one was littered with people, the other one i had all to myself”

“even with all those ups, i'm still envious.”

“its a really small park, only 42 square miles, but those mountains are STEEP!”

“this place kinda reminded me of black hills in south dakota. mudeung-san reminded me of the AT”

“oh, the black hills is where mike and I are heading for our super secret hike in september!”

“cool! my friend from busan called. im going there to visit next month”

“i have been impressed with the generosity of the koreans this weekend. this weekend i took a bus to wolchul-san national park, about an hour and a quarter bus ride away. when i got to the bus station in nearby yeongam, a young guy voluntarily served as my translator with the ticket counter. he found out for me that there was no bus to the park, and that i needed to take a taxi, as well as what time the last bus back to gwangju was. as i stepped out the door and was taking in the view of the park, i was just about to hail a taxi, when another young man asked where i was going. i told him cheongwhasa (i probably didnt spell that right). he told me to get in his minivan and he would take me there. i was glad to have saved the taxi money. upon arrival at the gate, he got a map for me, and altho im pretty sure there was a small fee for admission, i didnt have to pay. maybe its standard practice not to charge foreigners, maybe the guidebook was wrong.

after i was dropped off, a 40-ish man struck up a conversation with me, and gave me lots of good information, as well as his business card and an invitation to call him when i was in his town. turns out that he is the director of student affairs at gyeongju university, in the town of the same name, which is a very popular tourist destination with tons of cultural artifacts.

a tough climb up to a rest shelter near the iron bridge connecting two of wolchulsans massive spires, i make friends with a very amicable family. they invite me partake of lunch with them. my first bite was delicious: a little sausage, sticky rice, wrap it up in lettuce and pop it in your mouth. the next, not so much: some kind of fish, which tasted ok, but the most god-awful dipping sauce i had ever tasted. i couldve gotten it down and swallowed it, but for some reason koreans dont de-bone their fish, so i had this huge mouthful of awful i couldnt get down. one of the ladies took pity on me and gave me a trash bag to ease my difficulty, and then gave me some of the most horrible putrid water i have ever had. thats been my culinary experience over here. half the time: wow thats really good, half the time: OHMYGODTHATSTHEWORSTHINGEVER!

so today i go looking for a cord to connect my computer to my stereo. i pop in to the local electronics store, and thru basic english and pantomimes, convey to the shopkeeer what im after. he gives me a detailed description of how to use the thing (cmon buddy, im foreign, not daft, i can figure out how to plug things in), and then when i pull my wallet out, he refuses to take any money for it. curious. i guess he just wants to make a good impression on the foreigner. finally, when i get home later, my friend in busan, who i know from last year getting my certificate to teach, rings me up, and we make plans to get together next month.

all in all, a pretty good weekend, even if all i did today was bum around (a usual sunday in gwangju)”

“nice pic's ,looks like your keeping up with your hiking and in such a nice place”

“가신 마술”

“Did I read this correctly? Crash wants someone to send him a set of falsies?!

Man you need to find you a woman.”

“sticks uhhhwhat?”

“I hope your Korean vocabulary improves. The locals really like it when you can speak the mother tongue.”

“Sounds like a cool day Crash bang. I think you have the wrong impression though, those Koreans are handing over whatever you want becasue they're afraid of your ninja skills. I emailed them and filled them in before you left.”

“happy anniversary to me! happy anniversary to me!

exactly one month ago at this time, i was on a bus southbound from incheon intnl airport, headed to gwangju”

“koreans make damn good fried chicken

disclaimer: and that in no way defines them as a people, nor dismisses anything else about them, nor denigrates them, or tells you how nice they are or how short they are, whether or not they eat babies, take a poop on the sidewalk, etc”

“i know in hong kong they are crazy for kfc and kenny rogers roasters or whatever that place was.”

“one of the chains here is AFC Ajuker Fried Chicken”

“Hello Crash!!
Hope things are going well!! BTW, I did not recieve any type of invite to your latest trip!! Whats up with that?????
See ya later.
Randall”

“just returned from buddhis temple stay. pictures to follow”

“well? we're waiting.”

“Waiting??

Go to Helen Waite.

>8^b”

“Hurry up all ready.”

“sorry, folks. got side-tracked by problems with acdsee. finally said to hell with it and went to bed”