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[The Great Toad]

I am going crazy. Or was I already crazy? Hmmm absolute power corrupts and Mine great Bulk and Cranial storms are close to god like in Stupendousness. I've started reading PDF document books I'm so bored. Jeju is under my Enlightened English Domination as any Fair Country is met with only benevolence and deep unrelenting Love by mine Great Noble Heart. Yet, it's become weary, tiresome, utterly meaningless and futile, a chasing after the wind (mmm I said that while in the Marines too...).

What's more, Koreans are impolite to me! By now with nigh two Years upon Jeju they should realize Mine R00lz is a Just One for their own enrichment. But, most all of the people on this Island still sux at English! What's wrong with them! How they inconvenience me! Still though I have a great love for my students- innocents they are. But the lacking lingo of their elder sisters, and Aunts has tempered my resolve to depart this Fiefdom I've spent my seed on. I've planted the Language of the Crusader Imperialist wherein I could; that my stout English shoots will grow in my kindly plantings of imparted knowledge. I am the most clever and brilliant of all! I am TOAD! Sing out your praises small ones. (it's true they do) sure enough I'll give another 8 year old a piggy back ride between classes, Christ blessed them too.

But, I am jaded here and bored. A crusty BUDS Marine once advised me in Okinawa- if your bored here it's because you are a boring person. But, I was not so bored in Okinawa as I could always visit my Tomato Clownfish buddy (he never failed to attack me) in Or Wan Bay and see if I'd die losing breath swimming through the red rock caves. Unfortunately Jeju is too cold to swim now so all I can do is run about the beach naked when the Seoul ajuma tours get off the buses by the overpriced sea urchin soup places (sometimes they tip after I dress again). Ok, I still bike, but that gets tedious too, it's been years since I've been in a pace line cruising at 35mph. And I'm disappointed with the people on this board too. I never made any k00l internet friends here. All I got is a lot of dirty PMs from the moderators who wanted to meet me in Seoul when I visited.

There is only one way I'll stay in Korea past June and that is if Chun Jae Young says she wants to get back together and marry me. Otherwise I'm just going to burn down my own castle and bring a last cow tally doom down on my churls so I go on the plane fat and sated. I know what you are saying: you should have made more friends but most all the foreigners on this island are: Old, boring, drunks, married, or worst of all from Canada (I blame Canada). I don't hate Korea I'm just disappointed I didn't have a better time. Ahh well there is always my kindly English HoggyWon K-girl who is pleasant to meet with. But, overall it is tedious and after consideration I've decided to withdraw from all my ill-got holdings herein. (That is I still feel guilty for getting twice as much Galbi at Lunch cause the Lunch Ladies know my blood runs like the ichor in Achilleus).

[VanIslander]

bye

[capebretoncanadian]

You're excruciating to read.

[The Great Toad]

l8r Van. Cape your state bird attacked me in the Boundry waters, but I like your lakes, still I blame Canada for Korea and Iraq too.

[The Bobster]

[coffeeman]

I've never been in a country with more aggravating people than Korea. The young men (15 ~ 27) are especially annoying acting obnoxious, loud and stupid in public. Sometimes they bother me because I am a foreigner.

On the other hand, I have never met more generous people than Koreans. They're always there offering some of whatever they're eating or paying for dinner. The high school students I teach are a lot less trouble than the ones in my country.

When evaluating Korea as a whole, it's not a bad place. If you keep a sense of humor, you'll enjoy this place.

[sadsac]

Year six and when its over, a nice long holiday. Good hagwon, but I'm tired of the sameness of the food. I need real vegetables.

[nautilus]

[coolsage]

Toad, you must be bored. Clearly you've started drinking in the morning.

[The Great Toad]

I didn�t drink this morning. Just got back from a 3 and half hour ride on a warm beautiful day drafted two trucks but my new ride buddy was hurting even my incredible strength on the uphills. Still unless I find a Korean Olympic track racer/ volleyball player / skater/ or swimmer with a heart like Mother Teresa (except she does that thing) to marry I'm gonna leave in June it's too cold in Jeju in the winter.

[pest2]

Dont worry great toad, June is not that far away. And with your merry fortune made, in your next situation you shall play.

For me, it's late July... but who's counting? Yah I heard the riding on Jeju Island is supposed to be good but I think I heard someone say its too hilly so I have been afraid to ride there.

You should know better than to publicly denounce Canada! You know 85% of Canada's national income comes from Canadians who come to Korea to work as English teachers and send money back home! You can't hold Terrance and Phillip hostage, buddy!!! It's war!

[idealjetsam]

[Tiny_Tibbo]

Like i've said before, I like his posts. Very entertaining.......

[tacon101]

totally hear you toad

i find it's the lack of recreational drugs...

[JongnoGuru]

I don't always -- okay... I almost never read the Toad's posts word for word all the way to the end. I usually just skim them and see if I can find what point he's making. Often I fail. But not this time.

Toad, you've been in Korea (down on Jeju, anyway) for only as long as the very short time I've been reading Dave's. (Yikes. You don't want to know how ancient that makes me feel.) When I first began reading your effusive, bouncy, elaborately constructed and sometimes even comprehensible posts, I thought to myself these two things:

1) Great!! Korea's a much changed, much funner place than it ever used to be, or than I give it credit for being even today, if someone like the Toad is happy and content enough to call it home for the reasonably long term,

BUT I ALSO SOMETIMES THOUGHT...

2) Okay, (1) is just wrong. Korea really isn't "dynamic (c)", it isn't the upbeat, jazzy, finger-snappin', nonstop circus-on-wheels of bright lights and good times that it might be, or that presumably some places on the big old planet genuinely are. Korea really isn't "dynamic (c)" -- at least not on an ongoing basis. And God knows, the Toad (of all people) isn't the sort who's going to be sufficiently contented living here long-term. Oh, he won't have the horrible, nasty experience and just explode. He's the type who can handle that. No, it's going to be something intangible, something persistent, something one can't just "handle" and be done with. That's what will ultimately wear him down, in ways that a nightmarish job experience or a broken heart -- things that can be mended -- won't do.

So, (2) was right. I really don't think Korea has a chance of attracting cool peeps like the Toad -- not long-term, anyway -- unless and until the government deports Canadians.