First and foremost, Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!
I can't believe that this will be the third year that I'll have missed this special time with my family (so much for that one-year in-and-out plan). I feel sorry for being away from them, but these past two plus years have been the best of my life. It's hard being away at times like these, but it's worth it. The good news is that long gone are the days of eating Popeye's alone on the floor of an empty apartment during the holiday, and I will (thanks to the US Army and my church) be getting turkey again this year.
Besides turkey, the passing of the holiday signifies two more things:
1.) It's almost time to pull out my 5,000원 (around $4) Christmas tree that I bought in the Sapyeong Station DAISO last December and nearly didn't keep, and
2.) It's finally legal again to pull out the one and only Charlie Brown Christmas album. I'd be lying to you if I said that I haven't listened to it at all since last December, but as I mentioned last year, I can finally listen to it 'in good conscience' once again. Good call, Adrienne.
On another note, tensions seemed to have died down quite a bit in the last two days, to the point that, to the general eye, war seems no more probable than it did last week. The day after the attack was one of the strangest of my life, though, as helicopters wielding giant missiles circled the grey skies near my neighborhood all day, and my soldier friends were ordered to write their final statements and sleep with their boots on. All the while, the first graders in m class had discovered a green prickly seed from a plant outside that would stick to your clothes if you let it. The world was panicking under the fear of mass destruction, and all these children cared about was shoving the seeds of nature's rebirth in their ears. Beautiful!
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Going to Malaysia in December. Have I already mentioned that?
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I hope everyone has a wonderful holiday. To my family back home, I love you, and I miss you. I'll be back sometime. And mom, please send some of that broccoli casserole:)
-스티브
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