Well, after some struggles finding a good flight (having my internet connection screw me over on a bunch of good deals, dealing with a frustrating Chinese airline, and being denied by Orbitz on all of the flights that I really wanted), I have secured a pretty nice trip to S. Korea to visit a couple Fraternity brothers and a Korean friend who I met here. I think it's going to be a really good time, and I'm very excited to see South Korea - I'll be bouncing back and forth a bit between Incheon and Seoul. I'm only there for 3 days, but it should be enough time to really get a feel for what S. Korea is all about. I leave Shanghai on Thursday August 5th at 9am, and arrive in Incheon at Noon, from there I'll do some exploring of the city on my own, and then meet up with Kyle and David after they get out of work around 4pm or so. I leave Korea on Sunday August 8th at 9am, and arrive back in Shanghai at 10am, which should leave me enough time to get to play in the final soccer game of the summer season with the Puxi Lions.
This means that I should really try to wrap up all of my projects for my internship before I leave for S. Korea, because once I get back to Shanghai, I'll only have the rest of Sunday, Monday and then I leave for home on Tuesday Aug 10.
I've been getting kind of stressed out with everything that's going on lately. I don't know why, I need to relax a bit :-) Beijing will be a nice getaway. It's just that I'm trying to finish up things around here, and hopefully leave 3 Dumplings in a position where Kelley and Pauline can easily take it and run with it. It'd be nice to see it grow into something big here in Shanghai. I'm also trying to prepare things for a few orders for PMM Cornholes, as well as get my University Tees (the company I work for at school) things all in order so I can start work at school on the right foot this semester. Meanwhile, I've got things to turn in for Albion so that I can get credit for this time abroad. Ohh boy! I'm at the brewery now, so I think I'll have an IPA and relax ;-)
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PMM
Be careful in Korea:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/21/world/asia/21military.html?_r=1&hp
--john
Well, we'll just have to hope that the US and S. Korea wait until Pat McCombs is out of Asia before they move forward with their Yellow Sea 'exercises' :-)
ReplyDeleteI love the Mao quote: "We will never allow others to keep snoring beside our beds"...epic.
You're making your way over to this part of the world very soon. Keep your eyes peeled, Johnny.