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crazylemongirl · Joined: 23 Mar 2003 Location: almost there...

So I was tidying up my messy apartment and found an old journal. Today is two years to the day I ended up in Korea. Sometimes I wonder how the hell I ended up here in the first place.

Now I'm wondering why I've been here so long.

itaewonguy · Joined: 25 Mar 2003

ive been here 8! Shocked

Reflections · Joined: 04 Jan 2005

The answer to that is simple: your a MOD and you have an important chore to do

a chore that I would not do

so that leaves just you....

PolyChronic Time Girl · Joined: 15 Dec 2004 Location: Korea Exited

Compared to many others, CrazyLemonGirl, we are still newbies!! I just hit my 2-year anniversary and feel the same way you do....I'll be here another year and my parents want to kill me at this point....or get another daughter as they told me.

vlcupper · Joined: 12 Aug 2004 Location: Gangnam

November 13 was my two year mark. My family is still asking "when are you coming home" everytime I call. It amazes me that they seem so disappointed in me even though I have a steady job, my own apartment, and I haven't asked anybody for a single dime since I've been here.

When do you guys think you'll go back?

PolyChronic Time Girl · Joined: 15 Dec 2004 Location: Korea Exited

vlcupper · Joined: 12 Aug 2004 Location: Gangnam

Exactly! My mom always has this disappointed tone in her voice when I talk to her. Like I've taken up prostitution, and teaching is just a front.

Blind Willie · Joined: 05 May 2004

HamuHamu · Joined: 01 May 2003 Location: Seoul

I hear ya, girl! It's been almost 3 for me, and the last 2 were never intended....I find Korea is like this big black supernova that sucks you in and you just can't manage to get out ....wehter you hate it or love it, or love-to-hate-it Confused

Yep, parents continuously begging me to come home, but the last time I was home, I think it took about 48 hours before they were wondering when I would get out of their hair again... Rolling Eyes

JongnoGuru · Joined: 25 May 2004 Location: peeing on your doorstep

I'll ring home out of the blue and...

Me: "Hi Dad, it's me!" Very Happy

Dad: Hello. Who is this? Is this the Guru? Confused

Me:

Of course it's me!

Dad: Right. That's what I thought.

Me: What do you mean, 'that's what I thought'??? Mad

How many other sons have you got running around?

canuckistan · Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2005 3:05 am Post subject:

Tiberious aka Sparkles · Joined: 23 Jan 2003 Location: I'm one cool cat!

crazylemongirl · Joined: 23 Mar 2003 Location: almost there...

My parents seem ok because I have a plan. I really want to get into the foreign service back in new zealand so I'm studying korean, to get some language skills to add to the resume.

I've got other plans if I that falls through and I'm happy so I figure what's it to them.

Blind Willie · Joined: 05 May 2004

I realized that I passed three years a few days ago.

mithridates · Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2005 4:57 am Post subject:

I'll be at the two-year mark in May. From my posts I'm sure it sounds like I've been here since the sixties, when people in Pusan used to eat red ants from time to time (read that in a National Geographic magazine from 1969).