The air is getting chilly. Already the 'summer breeze' is being replaced by the 'winter chill.' Days are getting short, and actually, I'm loving it. Had to get my coat cleaned for the upcoming winter. I think I really enjoy jacket weather. It's coat weather that I despise.
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Finally made use of that Chinese visa over Chuseok. Made it back relatively unharmed, minus the giant bruise on my hand where the IV used to be.
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Jarasum Jazz Festival is coming up again! Pretty excited, though I don't really have much more to say than I did last year. But updated information for the 2010 event can be found here.
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These moth balls are really causing my apartment to smell like a public restroom.
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Going to Kyoto, Japan in a few weeks. Not sure if I mentioned this before, but I found a really cheap flight with Jeju Air. From what I hear, Kyoto is one of the great cultural cities in the world, so I'm really happy that. And it will be good to see my Mongolian friend, Erdene, who is living there now.
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A few other blog posts of note about the touchy issue of inter-racial Caucasian/Korean relationships on the peninsula. I admittedly haven't followed any of these blogs before, and only found them after clicking around on the stats page of Seoul Sounds, but there seems to be a storm brewing about a few comments made by someone who thinks he knows everything. There's nothing in them that I haven't heard before, but that still didn't make my breakfast any easier to chew as I was reading them this morning. If you have the time, I recommend that you read them through:
I don't think I've ever really said much about this topic before, because it's hard not too without getting too emotional or sounding too negative. I was thinking about how I would follow up what was written in the blogs above, but I think they speak for themselves. Admittedly, there have been quite a few times that I've felt uncomfortable as a foreigner in Korea because of race. I don't like it, and I know that I'll be more aware of others when I go back home because of it. So it's not all bad. But let's just put it this way, and lay the issue to rest:
Judging others isn't cool.
Thanks for reading
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