Am I going in circles? I just read this from my blog 2 years ago:
” I miss the streets of Seoul, the bustle, the cars everywhere, the awesome subway, morning Dunkin Donuts runs, partying hard in Hongdae and Itaewon, Pita Time, motel rooms, orange-flooded midnight streets, walking to the Kim Bap Nara in the wee hours of the morning and ordering don cass, crazy ajoshis, kids staring at my whiteness, playing darts in Seoul Pub, egg and cheese Sally, shopping at 3am in Dongdaemun, driving on the right, galbi wrapped up with kim chi in a lettuce leaf, hanging with my korean ‘brother’ and talking about life until morning, cheap taxis, high-speed internet, being told my Korean is good when it sooo isn’t, my adorable student Hae Ri, Korean people and how they act the same wherever you go, making strange videos with Keith, my boys, my girls, and waking up any time and stepping out into a city that never seems to really sleep. It’s all a dream now.”
Now here I sit in Australia, thinking about my Korea far away over the seas. Another world, another life currently continuing while I sit in a different reality.
But this time it is different, I think. After years of not being able to do what I wanted, I was shocked suddenly to be back in a country where my possibilities weren’t limited to being a teacher or a company’s resident foreigner. As I feel my mind opening up to the possibilities I see the future as being very different from the past. Something clicked. So while on the surface it may seem like the circle repeats, on the inside it is a whole new reality.
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