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Rock · Joined: 25 Feb 2005

Living here's kind of a drag. You know, I get up, hear the noise outside, want to go somewhere, but end up sleeping in to 1p because there's nothing open in the mornings, no where to go.

Figured I'd come back here for another year. Still feel the place is all closed though, like there's a lock on their minds. You ever feel this is rubbing off on you, making you dull of mind and wit?

I wonder about the guys who've been here for years. Some I recognize on this forum. Don't you oldtimers feel you're brain dead?

I mean let's face it, there's no spark that I can get looking at some of these passages/comments, since it's all old news, s.o.s.

Anyways, I'm in Miryang, quite a country town, which is nice.

blaseblasphemener · Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2007 3:23 am Post subject:

There's your problem. If you lived in North America in a small town, you would feel brain dead too. It's not Korea, it's the town that's the problem.

VanIslander · Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2007 3:33 am Post subject:

brain dead?

learning a new language (like, Korean)
traveling on the weekends (museums, hiking, new places)
developing hobbies (e.g., making boomerangs, birding)
reading books
writing books
working on a master's degree online
photography, music and other arts
etcetera

i've met several old timers in person, and they're an active bunch
the only 'brain dead' drunkard t.v. watchers I've met have been a few newbies and guys who haven't stuck around for long.

Cheonmunka · Joined: 04 Jun 2004

Old timers probably wish they had more free time. Most I know who are close and beyond 40 have too much on their plates.

mytime · Joined: 15 Oct 2006

I am not really an old-timer here (been here since 2003) but I also live in a small town and yeah there aren't much to do from monday to friday but getting up really early makes the day so much better

On any given day I go walking or running or go to the gym , learn Korean , do prep for work, check up on my stocks ( i am a daytrader) and read, listen to music or watch a movie I downloaded....I can do all these things in one day if I get up early
If I get up late, then I spend the majority of my day teaching basic english and not much else....that is mind-numbing and tiring

Giving yourself a long morning before work by getting up early really makes a big difference in your day-to-day state of mind

eamo · Joined: 08 Mar 2003 Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.

Wow! Rock! How do you do it? Completely wrong again!! Shocked

Amazing! You have an uncanny ability to believe that every foreigner in Korea thinks exactly like you!!

The reason us old-timers aren't brain-dead is because we have made Korea work for us. We have active and full lives.

Every thread you've ever started on here has been down on Korea and now you tell us you came back for another year!!! Haha!

blynch · Joined: 25 Oct 2006 Location: UCLA

Ody · Joined: 27 Jan 2003 Location: over here

the_beaver · Joined: 15 Jan 2003

There aren't enough hours in a day.

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

I don't calls 'em "old-timers", I calls 'em loosers! Mad

They sukc.

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bluelake · Joined: 01 Dec 2005

I never really thought about it much. Korea is my home and has been for the past two decades. I always have plenty to do, so I have no time to be bored; if anything, time seems to go too fast.

just because · Joined: 01 Aug 2003 Location: Changwon - 4964

I don't have any time to be bored....actually in my 5 plus years here one thing i can say is that i am never bored.
There is always something to do and if you look usually pretty cool and different

This weekend has zoomed by as well...

what with all the cool day trips, sports events, socializing and good eating life is just too much...

I need a another day just to chill out

Bondrock · Joined: 08 Oct 2006 Location: ^_^

hmm...

what's next?

post-kindergarten question and advice column?

brain-dead indeed...

as someone already said, there aint enough hours in the day.... dont matter where you live

The Dude from Canada · Joined: 19 Feb 2007

If somebody is over 30 and teaching English in Korea, you can imagine that they are brain dead because that means that they have very little going for them. Of course, there are the guys who say 'i used to be a high level journalist or lawyer but i needed to get away from the stress so I came to korea.' But of course what it means is that they couldn't hack it in those lines of work. You won't see Bill Gates or Donald Trump in a kiddy hagwon any time soon will we?