hello there!
so glad you enjoyed your tokyo trip and that you're safe back home. no more north korea missile threats for breakfast. yay!
there was a crimson rooftop party earlier tonight, to introduce the new manager and also a farewell party for tasol. finally, she gets her vacation! i skipped the party though. was feeling kinda hermit-y, so i stayed in my room and watched that brothers grimm movie on cable. bleah.
but at midnight, tenzin gave me a call and said they're out drinking somewhere on chamsari-gil. so for the first time in my life, i went out alone after midnight and walked the dark city streets (not that far) to get drunk. hooray for first times.
as expected, the japanese kids with crazy hair (the boyz) and squeaky voices (the girlz) were present. everyone was from crimson except for some dour american dude wearing a backwards cap. also met a couple of new crimson house guys: a portuguese guy (paulo?) and a frenchman (benoit).
eugene, tenzin and i shared a pitcher of yogurt soju with benoit and the japanese girls. it was impossible to get a conversation going because i suck at korean, and the tokyo girls just kept saying they were "hanggugo kungbuheyo". riveting, eh?
we all went home a couple of hours later but we did stop by the corner store to buy some 3-for-1,000 won ice cream sticks. as tenzin said: "in honor of our friend, john dewey." a few seconds later, kalinga chucked his ice cream into the trash by mistake (he was drunker than i thought) and they had to buy another one. hee hee.
yup, i'll be going home in a few weeks (26 september!!!). warts and all, i will miss korea. thanks to you, tenzin, and the rest of the guys, i have some very good memories of my stay here. and when memory fails (e.g., that night in sokcho), there's always photographic evidence.
it's 2:30 am now and it's a school night. yaaargh.
WE MISS YOU!!!!
lovelove,
S
PS: we're going dancing friday night in hondae. it'll be my last chance to do that all-access clubhopping thing they have on the last friday of each month. woohoo.
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Has it been five months already?!?! Whew, time flies. Very fast. Will be glad to see you back! Enjoy the remaining month. Hugs..
remember that snippet from eliot's 'east coker' i sent you sometime ago? here are the complete 'four quartets.'
another eliot poem, 'ash wednesday,' with eliot himself reading it.
hope you like them.
Sands, Andrea's back home. :) Will be meeting her hopefully next week. And you'll be home soon. Wonderful.
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