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Tiberious aka Sparkles
Joined: 23 Jan 2003
Location: I'm one cool cat!
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Just over five years, minus the 7 months I spent back in Canada in 2002, vegitating and getting married and stuff.
Sparkles*_* |
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weatherman
Joined: 14 Jan 2003
Location: Korea
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| Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2005 5:13 am Post subject: Re: holy crap I've been here two years |
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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. |
In someways we are forever newbies. Two whole years isn't that much. Been here over 8, and the longer I am here, the more I realize that I don't know much about Korea. |
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Derrek
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2005 6:19 am Post subject: |
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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? |
I know what you mean....my father is constantly bugging me with that and he always emails me about jobs he knows. He is desperatly trying to get me to live in Oregon near him, which I love but there are no jobs there. My father is my recruiter for the U.S  ...telling me how wonderful it is to live there....never mind that now I don't have a car, job,or apartment waiting for me there....parents seem to think that since you have a B.A, you're set up for a successful life back home and don't understand why it's difficult to leave Korea because of the money.
I will return next year for grad school...I'm trying to find a grad school NOT in Southern California.
I think many parents would rather see you broke and under their wing rather than living in that "weird" country. |
Oh gosh... are you sure we don't have the same father? I am worried that my dad has a dual-life after reading this!
He's always pointing out jobs back home, telling me about how I'm "selling myself short" by not applying for jobs, and then telling me how the economy is in this big upswing and jobs are on the rise....
Even funnier, I may return for grad school next year....
... sound familiar? |
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katydid
Joined: 02 Feb 2003
Location: Here kitty kitty kitty...
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| Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2005 7:26 am Post subject: |
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I've been here three years and EVERY year has been my last year in Korea. 
Now to get the hell home and do something productive. 
I'm taking the long way... |
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ajuma
Joined: 18 Feb 2003
Location: Anywere but Seoul!!
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| Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2005 10:14 am Post subject: |
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| Why? Because in your past life, you were Korean, and you find something about the Korean life-style that satisfies your soul... |
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panthermodern
Joined: 08 Feb 2003
Location: Taxronto
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| Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2005 10:35 am Post subject: |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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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 |
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| Been here going on 3.5 years. It's all good. |
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| 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). |
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| Just over five years, minus the 7 months I spent back in Canada in 2002, vegitating and getting married and stuff. |
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| I've been here three years and EVERY year has been my last year in Korea. |
You are all newbies ...
I came to Korea planning to move on.
Swore never to return, twice.
8 Years in March ...
and people wonder why I am crazy ... |
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JongnoGuru
Joined: 25 May 2004
Location: peeing on your doorstep
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| Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2005 11:09 am Post subject: |
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You are all newbies ...8 Years in March |
*draws breath*
*reconsiders* |
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panthermodern
Joined: 08 Feb 2003
Location: Taxronto
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| Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2005 11:16 am Post subject: |
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M.D.R. is the "king" of foreign Korea ...
Met him, drank with him, in more then one country ... |
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Harin
Joined: 03 May 2004
Location: Garden of Eden
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| Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2005 11:52 am Post subject: |
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ok ok, i am the exact opposite situation, but here i go.
i've lived in the states 8 YEARS. Holy.....
i have a good job here and just got a green card (yes, the permanet kind).
i am hoping that my boy'd become a visiting professor in four years, so we could live there again. |
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the_beaver
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2005 6:55 pm Post subject: |
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| panthermodern wrote: |
You are all newbies ...
I came to Korea planning to move on.
Swore never to return, twice.
8 Years in March ... |
Those in glass houses. . . |
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taobenli
Joined: 26 Apr 2004
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Harin-
Are you Korean? |
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Reflections
Joined: 04 Jan 2005
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| Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2005 12:24 am Post subject: |
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so that leaves just you
let me introduce you to my shoe
it's blue
it's nickname is Winnie the Pooh
hi pooh, how are you?
been here two, going on four |
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chiaa
Joined: 23 Aug 2003
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I can forget my anniversary. I can forget my won birthday. For some reason, I never forget my Korean anniversary.
4 1/2 years and no end in sight. |
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jajdude
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2005 8:06 am Post subject: |
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| Interesting how some parents, family or friends wonder when you'll be back and get a job and live in the real world. And stop doing this fling that has been going on a bit long, be it 2 or closer to 10 years. It might be unimaginable to some that you're doing OK over here and in no rush to return. |
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panthermodern
Joined: 08 Feb 2003
Location: Taxronto
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| Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2005 8:50 am Post subject: |
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| Those in glass houses. . . |
I was joking.
Just becuase you hate "Emoticons" does not mean you are always serious. |
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