What an interesting week. I think I've been experiencing that weird now that you're done school and have achieved all the goals you originally set out for yourself what the HELLLLLL do you do with your life situation. Heavy, yup, you bet, but might as well be now as later. I've been waging an internal battle all week concerning the concept of free floating and why it would be such a goooooood thing for me to try and do right now. I've been so freeking focused on getting from one deadline to the next that now that I have no deadlines I'm a bit .......well..... lost. What do I do with myself? There's nothing I have to do. There are sooooooo many things that i could be doing here. It's maybe slightly overwhelming alllll this freedome! What to do with it? I keep having these moments of blind panick that i must not be doing Something correctly because just working full time as a public school teacher here seems way too simple. And then it dawned on me "THIS IS WHY PEOPLE HAVE HOBBIES!" as opposed to let's say procrastinating on my assignments by doing something else that wasn't them. I can do what ever i like and I don't have to feel guilty about it!!!!! Because I am alllllllll done my homework! NO WAY! It may seem strange, but there you go. So now it's a question of figuring out what do I like to do for me? Well have I not been saying that when I finish school and pay off my debts I would like to devote a lot of time to my art. well why not begin now. Clearly my work situation is such that I may reasonably be able to both work AND make art. Cheers! So, now is go time. I've joined a coupple artist collectives for expats in Seoul, but I've put some serious effort the last week into getting in touch with some of the head honchos to try and find out about any upcomming exhibition opportunities. I may have found one! We shall see. I have sent him some jpegs of my more recent work and hopefully I hear back soon. that would give me all the motivation I need to get back to work. I have some ideas.....
This past week I have had some good times. Last Wednesday I went to a soccer match at the world cup stadium. Cool! I felt like I was transported in a geeky fantasy way to J. K. Rowlings' "Quidditch world cup stadium". Funky, geeky, there you go! It was a riot, and I met some new English teachers! This past weekend, I set about finding myself a new pair of high heels for work. You have NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO idea how difficult it is to find a size 9 1/2 -10 high heel shoe in South Korea!!!!!! After visiting close to 15 shoe stores I'm sure, I finally admitted defeat and head to the tourist shopping district in Itaewon. There, I was not dissappointed and i am now the proud owner of two new pairs of super cute and well fitting high heels. Excellent! I also managed to get back to Insadong for the 3rd week in a row. Fabulous! My friend Grace and i discovered a quirky SECOND HAND clothing store with good quality and extremely clean and well organized second hand clothing. A lot of it is actually overstock and NEW! It's called the Beautiful Store, but I'm not saying how to get there because it's worth the adventure of trying to find it yourself. This week has been flying by. Yesterday I succeeded in making a roast chicken and veggies in a pot on my gas range! And people thought I was overzealous for bringing North American herbs and spices with me. Take that! This was for Deanna and Diana who bet that I couldn't cook as well as our host mom in Cuba Mayra. Well..... ok, I still have way to go to master stove top cooking, but it was pretty frikin' good none the less!
Today I climbed my second mountain with the grade 3 and 4 teachers departments. Let's just say that their promisses that it would be easier than my last climb were not an exageration. It was penuts in comparison with bloody rock mountain! But it was still beautiful! Afterwads we all went out to dinner at this amazing little restaurant. It was the best BBQ I've had since I've been in Korea, no joke. The best part was that the school picked up the tab. Excellent X2!! I was feeling slightly out of focus and homesick earlier this week, but the combination of the art show possibility, my successful chicken and climbing a mountain seemed to put me in a more positive mental state.
My improved mental state must have shown on my face or something because since then everyone has been smiling at me and saying "Hello!". The barista in the cafe here just offered me a free coffee! HA! So there you go, an improved attitude and a free drink. Another week, another series of adventures. They may be slightly more PG rated than a lot of people here, but there's still time ;)
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