Break
I'm on my lunch break, wasting time on the net by reading up on the gossip sites as usual. Since my break is about four hours it's long enough to get really lazy and not really want to go back to work at all. Wish I could swap it around, I much rather get off work four hours earlier. If only.
My first class after the break is my rowdy smart class. It's OK, today I rather have rowdy one than another with no participation at all. Had a sub class like that this morning. Just four students who desperately did not want to talk...at all. It was a loong hour and a half as I had to coax and talk the whole time. The rowdy ones will probably not let me get a word in. Suits me just fine today :)
FML
I have it. Am SO f*cking annoyed and angry right now at everything and everyone! I have a class to go in about 15min. Screaming kids combined with a sick teacher with PMS. Not ideal. FML.
Sloooooow
There are some things about my flat that I will miss once I'm back in my old flat in Sweden:
-having a washing machine in the flat. no missed bookings or missing clothes
-cooking with gas. it smells but man, its fast
-having a bedroom AND a livingroom
-only having one neighbour on our floor (compared to 40+)
-the compound, its nice and landscape-y
what I will not miss one bit is the bloody internet. So F*cking slow. And if its slow it's blocked. Urk. Give me Korean/Swedish broadband any day!
Sjukt hungrig
I've been feeling sick for the last two days, got a cough and a bit of a runny nose...maybe that explains it?
Yesterday I only managed to drag myself out to the mall and have lunch to run some errands. When I came home around four I went to have a rest. Woke up at 10pm. 10! Figured I'd never be able to go to sleep but after watching the September Issue I fell asleep and didn't wake up properly until 14 hours later (at 12pm). That's just weird.
I haven't moved from my bed all day today and I'm starving since I slept through dinner last night lunch yesterday was my last meal. I don't have the energy to cook so now I'm stuck waiting for M to come home with some McDonalds for me. Until then I'm looking up pictures of burgers and reading reviews on the net. Oh, what I wouldn't do for an In 'n Out burger or a Max burger right now.....
UP!
Today was another good day. Been having a good day ever since I got back from South Korea...
I can feel myself becoming sick though. Got a sore stomach, sore throat, sore ears, sore head, hot lips and forehead. Ugh. Hope it will be over quickly.
Time to rest on the couch while watching UP! The beginning kills me every time, so sad.
Productive
Its almost quarter to three in the morning and I can't sleep. Been browsing the web and finally found the final song that was played heaps in Korea- Bo Peep Bo Peep by T-ara. Two quite different video versions:
I'm hallucinating now... think I can hear strings playing, Ok can I sleep now please?
Marshmallow
There were about three, four songs that were played everywhere in Korea. Like seriously everywhere: in bathrooms, shops, in Seoul, Dangjin, on cellphones and in the ski slopes.
One was by Girls Generation (nine hot girls singing and dancing). Can't remember what the song was, all I know is the clapping that went with it.... Da da da-da-da!
Here's one of their other songs Gee:
http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMTMwNTQ2NzYw.html
Sorry, Sorry by Super Junior (lots of guys this time). 
The Wonder Girls of course with Nobody:
And Marshmallow by IU.
http://www.56.com/u54/v_NDc3MzM0NDM.html
They're all stuck in my head now...sticky like hot marshmallow. Mmm.
Closure?!
I'm still on a Korea high I think but I don't care :)
Sight seed, drank, karaoke-d and shopped in Seoul:
I absolutely loved Korea (so much that I might consider giving Asia another try when it comes to teaching).
Went to the mountains to go skiing:
Sight seed, drank, karaoke-d and shopped in Seoul:
Had very diffrent weather:
Best of all-I got to spend some time with my ex.
I didn't quite realise before I did it how much I needed to talk things through with him. Our seperation was so dramatic that that has been all I've been focused about since we broke up. We were able to talk through some things that had been said and done before and after the event. We were able to hang out as close friends. I feel I can really start to move on now...jeez I think I got closure!
Bittersweet
It's my second to last day in Korea and I'm going to take the bus to Seoul and then come back here again tonight. Figure I might as well pick up my visa today rather than leave it until tomorrow. Then I'll have lots of stuff to carry and I can have a sleep-in instead :) Good plan I reckon, I'm not a fan of rushing really.
Anyways, I really like Seoul. It's very clean, has good shopping (brand names AND markets) and it has more of a Japanese vibe to it, which I like. Go there/here if you can.
Being here and meeting my ex again after two years has been interesting, to say the least. It's kinda bittersweet I suppose. I'm very glad I came but at the same time it has messed with my head a bit. There's some feelings and thoughts that I've put a lot of effort to forget that has come back. Not all of it good, of course.
Main thing is still: what I want to do in life? Seeing someone who used to be in the exact same situation you were in yourself a while ago actually being really happy where he is, and doing what he wants to do, is both inspiring and kinda a bummer. Sour grapes, you betcha.
Blast
I'm staying in a city about an hour away from Seoul right now. It's too cold for my liking (minus... something, there's snow anyway) so I've spent the day inside watching videos on youtube and going on all the sites that take forever to bypass in China. Happy times. Tomorrow I'll go back to Seoul again to do some more shopping I think. Until then I'll hang out with the blast from the past.
I take it you're staring because your camera is broken?
Yesterday I almost lost it at People Square (only cursed loudly in the end). In the last week I've seen (apart from the usual stares that you always seem to get when going out from strangers) people taking pictures of M and I with their cellphones.It's not very sneaky and it feels kinda weird. Yesterday I just had someone take a pic of me in the subway and while I was riding up the escalators the guy in front of me turns around and stares. I'm not talking a quick glance, no he literally turns around (he's standing on the step above mine) and just stares down at me. Gah! No shame what so ever. I wanted to punch some sense into him.
I need a break from people like that, thank god I'm leaving for Seoul on thursday.
Until then, maybe I should get one of these shirts....
101
In four months I've watched 101 movies/TV-series. That's kinda insane. Especially since I've seen some more than once and whole seasons of series.... Bought some more movies today to keep up the addiction.
Thank God it's cheap.
Endor vs Hoth
The weather forecast is so much more interesting when you use the Star Wars version!
It's 8 degrees outside, so today it's like Endor out there. Temperate, but grey and cloudy. Stick around and you may get your own animated series.
In Stockholm it's -19....like Hoth. Cold, ice, freezing desolation. You may have to climb into a tauntaun for warmth.
I hope spring arrives in Stockholm before I do.
8 Jan
I've been a bit quiet recently, mostly because there's been a lot of stuff going on.
First of all I've decided to back to Sweden in about a month and a half (maybe two). I miss my family too much and I need more nature, fresh air and fika. I need to be able to carry a conversation for longer than a minute in everyday life. I'm not getting that here. I've found this blog and it sums it up pretty good:
I feel a lot happier now that I've made the decision. I could have willed myself to stay a year or until the end of the contract but for what purpose? To prove something to everyone else maybe.
After all, I wanted to go back as soon as I got here and I've made it this far. I don't need to go any further.
Next week I'm going to visit my ex in South Korea (no Japan on this trip, maybe another time when I have more money) which I think will be good. Closure and all that. I hope it will be just fun times.
Äckligt
Har börjat det nya året med att snöa in mig (är det ens ett normalt talesätt ?) på olika bloggar.
Just nu håller jag på och sträckläser Hanna Fridéns blogg:
Har börjat bakifrån och nu kommit fram till sida 56. Sjukt fascinerande att läsa om andras äckelhistorier. Jag grät av skratt när jag försökte berätta en av historierna för M. Tror han är lite smått chockad men äh, det får han ta. Haha, nu ska jag läsa mera och äta Polly som han köpte från Ikea. Bra kombination det! Dom ser ju inte alls ut som något snuskigt.
