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		| helly 
 
 
 Joined: 01 Apr 2003
 Location: WORLDWIDE
 
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				|  Posted: Mon Dec 01, 2003 6:40 pm    Post subject: What's Your Timeline? |   |  
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				| Time til I'm unemployed - 8 days Time til I shave off (almost) all my hair - 9 days
 Time til I am technically homeless - 14 days
 Time til I arrive in Thailand - 17 days
 Time til I am drinking a beer on a Thai beach - 17 days, 1 hour
 Time til my son's one year birthday - one month
 Time til I leave Korea "forever" (maybe) - one month and 2 days
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		| Butterfly 
 
 
 Joined: 02 Mar 2003
 Location: Kuwait
 
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				|  Posted: Mon Dec 01, 2003 8:32 pm    Post subject: Re: What's Your Timeline? |   |  
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	  | helly wrote: |  
	  | Time til I'm unemployed - 8 days Time til I shave off (almost) all my hair - 9 days
 Time til I am technically homeless - 14 days
 Time til I arrive in Thailand - 17 days
 Time til I am drinking a beer on a Thai beach - 17 days, 1 hour
 Time til my son's one year birthday - one month
 Time til I leave Korea "forever" (maybe) - one month and 2 days
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 What would you like us to do with this information?
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		| helly 
 
 
 Joined: 01 Apr 2003
 Location: WORLDWIDE
 
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				|  Posted: Mon Dec 01, 2003 9:18 pm    Post subject: |   |  
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				| Well, since you asked, here are a few suggestions. 
 
 1. Commit it to memory, you never know when it might become useful
 2. Ponder your own Korea timeline.  Some are long, some are short.
 3. Share your own timeline with the board.
 4. Create a poll, "How long will you stay in Korea?"
 5. Create a poll, "Would you ever shave off (almost) all your hair?"
 6. Think about your holiday plans and share with the group.
 7. Reply with a cynical comment (oops, already did that)
 8. Plot the dates out on a calendar
 9. Create a cartoon, using humorous visual representations for each activity
 10. Make up a song about leaving Korea
 11. Share stories about drinking on a beach in Thailand
 12. Create a chant about haircuts, teach them to your elementary students
 13. Be inspired to make a life-change
 14. Be inspired to get a haircut
 15. Ignore it all together
 
 Hope this helps
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		| Tiger Beer 
 
  
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				|  Posted: Mon Dec 01, 2003 9:41 pm    Post subject: |   |  
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				| 5 days left in Thailand (before I go back to Korea) 134 days until contract is finished in Korea.
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		| Ody 
 
  
 Joined: 27 Jan 2003
 Location: over here
 
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				|  Posted: Mon Dec 01, 2003 9:59 pm    Post subject: |   |  
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				| for many of us not currently on vacation and not planning one in the near future, this question is depressing, mundane and slightly stressful to consider! 
 Here goes:
 
 1.5 days �til i MUST send out x-mas cards to friends and family abroad.
 8 days �til my brother-in-law arrives from the u.s. with gargantuan clothes that will fit me.
 9 days �til the elementary school lottery.
 18 days �til the official end of the semester when grades are due.
 19 days �til the Christmas tree and accompanying decorations including stockings go up.
 24 days �til Christmas �
 ..............must stop before i burst
 
 oh, speaking of which,
 90 days 'til i can start dieting and my crusade back into a size 6!
 
 
 edit: I removed.
 
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		| whatthefunk 
 
  
 Joined: 21 Apr 2003
 Location: Dont have a clue
 
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				|  Posted: Mon Dec 01, 2003 9:59 pm    Post subject: |   |  
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				| Days until new contract is finished...363 Is it bad to be counting already?
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		| helly 
 
 
 Joined: 01 Apr 2003
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				|  Posted: Mon Dec 01, 2003 10:04 pm    Post subject: |   |  
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				| There we go! |  | 
	
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		| Tiger Beer 
 
  
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				|  Posted: Mon Dec 01, 2003 10:05 pm    Post subject: |   |  
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	  | whatthefunk wrote: |  
	  | Days until new contract is finished...363 Is it bad to be counting already?
 |  So you signed a contract already? That quick and all setup, huh?  Not too much financial damage?  How is the job? How is Fukuoka?  And how is the nightlife and daily life there?
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		| helly 
 
 
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				|  Posted: Mon Dec 01, 2003 10:08 pm    Post subject: |   |  
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				| Tiger Beer, go enjoy your beer on a Thai beach and stop thinking about Korea.  Vacation first, rest of life second! |  | 
	
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		| whatthefunk 
 
  
 Joined: 21 Apr 2003
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				|  Posted: Mon Dec 01, 2003 10:17 pm    Post subject: |   |  
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	  | Tiger Beer wrote: |  
	  | So you signed a contract already? That quick and all setup, huh?  Not too much financial damage?  How is the job? How is Fukuoka?  And how is the nightlife and daily life there? |  
 Yep, only took me three weeks to start working.  Dont have the visa yet, but i should be getting around to that later this week.  Jobs okay...lots of train time.  I work three different schools and ones out in the middle of nowhere...two hours train ride from my apartment.  Im liking fukuoka alot, but I dont have the cash to go out right now.  I dont get paid for another month so it will be tight.
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		| UnJef 
 
  
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 Location: Seoul
 
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				|  Posted: Tue Dec 02, 2003 2:13 am    Post subject: |   |  
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				| Days until I'm 30 = 2 Days until I'm in Israel with my girlfriend = 26
 Days until my contract is up = 319 (or something like)
 Days until I'm 31 = 367
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		| UnJef 
 
  
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				|  Posted: Tue Dec 02, 2003 2:14 am    Post subject: |   |  
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		| peppermint 
 
  
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 Location: traversing the minefields of caddishness.
 
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				|  Posted: Tue Dec 02, 2003 6:17 pm    Post subject: |   |  
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				| Days till I leave Korea :1 Days till I return :25
 Am I a sucker for punishment???
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		| katydid 
 
  
 Joined: 02 Feb 2003
 Location: Here kitty kitty kitty...
 
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				|  Posted: Tue Dec 02, 2003 6:37 pm    Post subject: |   |  
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				| Nah...it just smells to me like you have a lot of bills to pay and/or you like what you do. 
 I have: about 88 days left on this contract. Then I intend on signing one more somewhere else (bonks head, too)
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		| tokki 
 
  
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				|  Posted: Tue Dec 02, 2003 8:13 pm    Post subject: |   |  
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				| Just returned from the mother of all vacations: 2 months in Europe, spanning 11 countries: Germany, Poland, Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein (yes, its a country), France, Italy, Monaco (Also a country), Vatican City (ditto). So, Im not planning on a vacation anytime soon...probably Jeju in April for a week and then perhaps the Maldives or Saipan in July or August. My timeline right now is: 
 11 months left on this contract, perhaps I will sign another one, then I will have the money to buy a good new and big place up in Seoul. I will probably have another huge vacation in 2 years time, was thinking about seeing a bit of Europe again, this time to include Greece, Turkey and also Egypt (I know its not Europe).
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