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Tiger Beer · Joined: 07 Feb 2003

Ecuador is a pretty cool little country. I studied Spanish there for a little while. It was great.. a microchosm of South America. One on side you have the Pacific Coast.. the middle has the Andes Mountains and the eastern side is in the Amazon Jungle.

The people are interesting as well. There is a heavy black population around Esmeraldas and Atacames - great music!! Plus your usual mix of Indegeneous and Spanish.. and.. well.. just interesting place. The art in Ecuador is pretty cool too.

mithridates · Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2004 5:58 am Post subject:

I've got three people back home getting married this year...I have two best friends and one of them is getting married in July, the other in October, and my dad is getting re-married in September. I'm considering going back there (Calgary) for three months and then back to Asia after that. My ideal job would be one to do with Korean / Japanese relations, ie dialect research, working in one of the companies planning to build the tunnel from Pusan to Fukuoka, some kind of exchange / international centre or something like that, so if I decide to go back to Calgary for those three months I'd likely come back in October and either be back in Seoul or in Fukuoka. I'm a lifer here but for some reason Japan almost feels like the same country, especially when you're able to flit back and forth all the time.

ryleeys · Joined: 22 Dec 2003 Location: Columbia, MD

VanIslander · Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2004 6:16 am Post subject:

Actually, mithridates, the tunnel proposal is to here on Geoje (old spelling: Koje) Island, or so I've been told. That's one of the reason the longest bridge in Korea is currently under construction from Busan (old spelling: Pusan) to the island, an incredible 45-minute drive that'll skip over a small island inbetween.

(If anyone's thinking of buying property in Korea, this island's not a bad idea in terms of future through traffic, underdeveloped tourism, shipbuilding success.)

Gonna enjoy those Texas-size Albertan steaks back home, eh? I myself spent three years in Lethbridge and half a year in the Peace River region and find the land so different than here in shape but not aridness (this may sound like a sidewards slap by a B.C. boy but it half isn't).

It's interesting to see all the various places we'll end up as much as where we've come from.

Tony Danza's Houseguest · Joined: 24 Jan 2004 Location: Osan Dong

Unversity of Chicago working on my MA come September. Before then? Duluth, MN where I'll be able to see my breath on a July morning.

mithridates · Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2004 7:01 am Post subject:

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I know some people from the contruction company that's going to be partly in charge of it and they say that the inspection of the ocean bed has been completed and that it's possible, but I don't know when it's going to begin exactly.

I like going back home about once a year; I get to see the results of a year of change that others might not have noticed as they live there every day. I never feel like settling down there though; I would need a house with a big yard enclosed by a dome as I like to read outside and can't stand the winter there.

Tiger Beer · Joined: 07 Feb 2003

IconsFanatic · Joined: 19 Jan 2003

England.

Tiger Beer · Joined: 07 Feb 2003

I´m undecided between the following:

Colombia, Miami, Washington DC, Honolulu, Saigon, Manila, Phnom Pehn and Bangkok.

It´ll be one of those 8 places beginning January of 2005..

Zed · Joined: 20 Jan 2003 Location: Shakedown Street

I'm undecided between Phnom Penh, Bangkok and KL. (or being a lazy bum and staying here)

desultude · Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2004 12:21 am Post subject:

I'm staying for a while, but would like to go to Vietnam and/or Australia. I have fantasies of Morocco and Eastern Europe, also. Maybe someday I'll be in the mountains north of Mexico City, someplace like Guanajuato, teaching privates and living on the cheap.

t bear · Joined: 24 Aug 2003 Location: south central rok

I'm finished in a few months, then home to NZ to catch up with friends and family. After that going to do the big OE. Starting in China, then round through Asia- Thailand, India, Nepal (if safe), Tibet. Then probably head to Europe and settle down somewhere to work when the money runs out.

Tiger Beer · Joined: 07 Feb 2003

This sums up 2004:

May: Spain
June: Spain
July: Spain, Miami, and Ireland.
August: Austria
September: Austria
October: Spain
November:Spain
December: Spain

2005 isn�t so clear. Either Wash DC or Bangkok/Phnom Pehn/Saigon as to how I�ve been thinking recently.

osangrl · Joined: 04 Nov 2003 Location: osan

Im heading to atlantic canada and going to coast guard college. Thats if i don't find someone to marry me first.

Zyzyfer · Posted: Sun May 09, 2004 7:11 am Post subject:

Well, I tried to find myself something back here in the States, but it's been a pretty big hassle getting things together thus far, and I'm still waiting for application time. So I'm rethinking my 5-year plan and will probably be back in Korea for 2-3 more years to save the money for everything else.