It's best if I describe things in reverse chronological order, i.e. starting from today and working backwords, rather like Merlin. It's about 1:00 a.m. Sunday here in Seoul, I just got back from the Hongik University nightclub district. I've actually been a bit lonely this past week, although I've made friends with several of the Japanese students, and hung out with a few of the Chinese, and met a couple of the westerners, I don't have a regular group of friends to spend Friday and Saturday nights with. Given that I've been here a whole two weeks, that's not exactly [View Full Entry]

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Well, the first rule of studying abroad is: make sure your passport hasn't expired. The second rule of studying abroad is: make sure your passport hasn't expired. Why they expire I don't know, mine smelled just fine, but they do have expiration dates. Of course I know that passports must be renewed, but in all these past few months of planning my summer study abroad in Korea, I never even once noticed that my passport expired April 27th, 2009. I copied my passport to mail a copy to the university in Korea, and didn't notice. I used my passport to [View Full Entry]

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