sweet marie

while i havent been blogging, i still have been up to lots!

most recently, i left my position in daegu and accepted a job in cheonan. its a bit further north. not near as big as daegu, but super super close to seoul. so, ive been here for a couple of months and things are coming along well. my new school is much more professional and i work much harder. no more two hour days! this is actually awesome and nice to keep busy. the weeks have flown!

my apartment is three times the size of my place in daegu. so thats awesome. and i have a bathtub and big oven. may not seem  like a big deal, but for those in korea… you can close your mouth now and come over! ill bake ya some cookies while you take a bubble bath!

ive made some new friends that are really great and it was actually a nice transition as many of my daegu friends have left the country recently. change, while sometimes unnerving, has an amazing way of keeping life fresh. and its really really great to be out of my old school and completely rid of all of the problems that came with it. i truly was living one of those awful horror stories of korea towards the end there. the most obvious downside to changing jobs is that i cannot visit home this year. i had $2000 worth of airline tickets that have gone to waste, which is unfortunate and upsetting. but, more than anything, i feel fortunate to have employment opportunities and giving up a vacation is an easy price to pay for that.

today, i was messing around in gmail and stumbled upon some random pictures of me is a picasa account. i dont even have a picasa account! it was really awful – unflattering club pictures from college. as much as i pride myself on my own space of privacy on the internet, it is just not so. as convenient as technology is, i would truly hate for something as simple as a tagged picture from a bar to diminish an opportunity in the future. yikes!