Boring Vacation & Relocated Girlfriend...

This is my girlfriend Eun Mi Hong, she drives me nuts but I feel closer to her now then ever... which is something since she just moved tto friggin Australia for 1 to 2 years... aghhhh!

I dont know though, maybe this is the reason why I find this vacation so boooooring (thank God it starts back up this thursday) but at the same time, staying home and doing absolutely nothing has given me some time to reflect on my life and the things I want most.

It has also given me some time to think about the elusive and dangerously nerve wracking enigma that is 함지영 shi. I have a blog I'm preparing about Ms. Jiyoung at a later date... but for noww let me just say things keep looking worse and worse in this empty dome I like to call a head.
And so the seconds, minutes, hours and days tick away. I recently met a young boy whom I began to tutor and I find him very pleasant to teach. Almost to the point where I am fearful that he might be becoming my best friend, hahaha. But think about it, I'm 29 and he's just... ummm, 9. More so he speaks 2 words of English and I speak 4 words of Korean (not really but you get my point). It's a frustrating companionship is all, and yet it is also my only escape from the hell of this vacation. I think next semester's vacation I'm gonna go stay with Eun Mi's mom for a week or so.
Now more about Eun Mi:

I met her 2 months after getting here at the Onnuri church of Konkuk University. For being a Christian girl she's a pretty free spirit and appeals to my better nature which I dont have much of. She lost her dad around the same time I did, under different circumstances, and that made us closer. She is a troubled soul that went to school to become a singer. She worked for a clothing shop as a clerk after graduation; a common theme I am seeing repeat itself in the many people i come across here in Korea. For example: the local mini mart's meat slicer man (that is not the official name but I will be writing Lotte shortly to make the suggestion) has a bachelors in Computer engineering. The receptionist at the Local Ramen house restaurant has a degree in Symphonic Composition. A composer!!! But alas, this is Koreas plague, to be dealt by Koreans, not foreigners with a eye for opinions.
Anyway getting back to Eun Mi, she is kind, nice and deserving of my love and affection.... yet why is it i continue to doubt and second guess myself?

Anyway, I've become good at procrastinating and perfecting the art during this vacation. But hope to exhaust this talent before thursday, and still my body says to me... well it's not really saying anything, it's just sittin there waiting for a better moment to tell me what it feels but the moment never comes and so the both of us are stuck in this endless cycle of perpetual procrastination. Man I like that... I'm gonna name this vacation that, but it's a little long so I will abreviate it and ask my friends to check out the pictures of my "PP".

Well, I'm sure the 9 year old will think that joke is estatically funny. God I'm bored =(

- The Time Machine Of Class 220 -

OK, even though I know I explained to everyone last time who Class 220 is, here is a refresher. The above picture from left to right depicts Dave, Raza, Ayrat, Sam, Adi, Me, Jafari and Lauren in an almost movie poster like light. I've taken a little detour from my normal blogging about my time here in Korea to give them a very small going away present, seeing as they are most likely all on their way back to their respective homes, save perhaps Sam and Ayrat. So what is this present, this awesoome gift you might ask? Well it's simple, seeing as I didnt want them to go, and was sad that i missed the Everland trip and Norae banging, I decieded to get everyone our very own Class 220 Time Machine...

<-- OK so here it is, I just finished purchasing this beautiful piece of equipment for 223,000 won. This 1988 Toyota corolla that somewhat resembles the "Back to the Future" Delorean from Steven Spielberg's classic blockbuster trilogy of movies, but it needs a whole lot of body work.

No worries, Jafari will be doing most of the painting and brakes, shocks and tire work. Lauren will be adding bunny flares to the doors, Adi is in charge of installing the sound system, Sam of reading the manual and operation of the devices, Dave of stocking some munchies in the trunk and Raza at the wheel.
In a white lab coat I will be in charge of installing the time circuits...
In order to give it it's time travelling capabilities I purchased this on Ebay:

Napoleon Dynamite's Time Machine...















Now with the help of the rest of my 220 family, together we will all jump in the Time Travelling Toyota, With Raza sporting a cool pair of shades and dark pink driving gloves, Ayrat in the passenger seat smoking a Marlboro and head half cocked out of the window with the wind in his hair, Jafari and Sam and the girls in the back seat giving each other Swedish massages and Dave (who fell asleep in the trunk) yelling that someone forgot to get him and the beer out of there... and of course me, on the front hood straddling like a trophy deer begging Raza not to hit 88 miles per hour (mostly because of Gas mileage issues) because I am positive the machine is not ready to be field tested; Ayrat interrupts me by saying, "I don't give shit... raza... you go now."

And with that we will go where no Level 1 Korean Speaking Student has gone before...

Maybe first to the prehistoric times of great Pangaea, trying to save lauren from being chased by hungry giant saber toothed bunnies that Jafari beats with a large bone, or to Roman times where we can all dress up in togas and save Sam from being named the next Cesar; we will travel to the hills of ancient Mayan territory so Ayrat can pick up a virgin girl or two, and to Ancient Egyptian times where Pharaoh will mistake Raza for the Sun god and try to have us burned alive while still keeping Adi as his queen and the keep also the Toyota for himself... but Adi gets the keys away with quick thinking and norae banging the guards to sleep...

But most of all we will travel to the moment of our destiny! Namely the beginning of the class on march 2nd 2009 where we will come out of a time warp, headlights smoking and the end of my hair slightly frizzed with electro magnetism. The other students of Yonsei university's KLI watching as one by one all of us get out of the car "Armageddon" style and walk in cool unison to the 220 classroom... already knowing all the answers to Sun Saeng Nim's questions and with Raza at the helm saying in his trademark voice... "I will pass this test this time bitchyeeeeehs!"
As the last of us walk into the KLI building, the crowd of onlookers turn towards the dented, discolored 1988 Time Travelling Toyota Corolla to see it rocking back and forth with Dave still in the car yelling, "is someone gonna get me the hell outta this trunk or what???"

Hope you like the gift guys^^ 220: It's a family yo~