Goodbye for Now

Well, I'm leaving Korea in a few hours. I have kind of a shitty flight schedule, surprise, surprise. Courtesy of Mingyu. He got me a halfway decent set of flights out of Seoul because I berated him strongly enough about trying to choose a flight that went all the way to Atlanta, then back halfway across the continent to San Antonio. But then he waited to long to get me a flight TO Seoul that the only thing left apparently was a 7am flight from Busan, at least an hour away from Ulsan. So Heather has to take me to Busan starting by 5am, then I'll have to collect my bags and check in again and wait over four hours for my next flight. By the time I land in San Antonio, where I'm spending a couple weeks, I'll have been traveling for about 31 hours. HURRAY.

They sent me off with fireworks tonight in Ulsan Grand Park.

Not really. It was just the Rose Festival beginning. But it was cool to see fireworks tonight. I raced out to catch the display, but it stopped before I got to the setoff point. I continued to follow the hordes and hordes of people who had come to the park at the same time, figuring there was some sort of festival or show going on. There was a big setup of vendors selling their wares, mostly pottery, but also jewelry and textiles, everything seemingly handmade. They were wrapping a stage when I got there, so I guess there had been a show. Oh, well. I had packing to do.

Anyway, regarding the Pop Quiz, Asshole, I decided to stay with my current job when I get back to Korea. Some of my major reasons for wanting to leave were the opportunity for longer vacations and fewer classes with less work, but with this job I get more money and almost total control over what I teach, so in the end it seemed the latter was a better choice for me. I figure if I took the job at a public school, I'd just want to use my longer vacations to travel Asia, and I would just eat away at the money I'm supposed to be using to pay off student loan debt. So, I will hang my hat on the same rack for another year.

Other up sides include the fact that the school is moving to a bigger, better building in which the classes actually have WINDOWS, Heather is promoting the head Korean teacher to an assistant managerial position so her inept brother isn't totally in charge while she's in the US each year, and Heather says she'll find me a totally suite (my words, not hers) apartment for when I come back.

So I'm hoping everything will turn out okay.

I have some other blogs to put up about my last day at school and probably some other stuff that I can't think of right now, but I don't have time. I'll post in a few days, once I'm done changing continents and get settled in.