So.
So this morning I've decided it's time for change. One email can have that effect on me. Time to say goodbye to some cherished dreams and say hello to some new ones. Cheerfully, it's also a day for changing places so I'm off to a good start. We're training it to Helsinki this afternoon, then on Monday I'm flying to England for a week or two until my new teaching visa comes through, then I'm back at work in Seoul for a year - praying desperately that I will be in the apartment in Oksudongil but if I don't get that it's time for me to move on and do things completely differently second time round.
Goodbye to the first Korean Ang. Hello to the one who will do things on her own in her own way in her own time the second time round.
The Trip has been awesome so far. I've been writing postcards like a holy bitch on fire (27 at last count). I've spent approximately (52 + 26 + 12 + 18 + 8 = 116) 116 hours on trains so far. I've slept in Beijing, a ger camp, Lystvyanka, Yekaterinburg, Moscow and St. Petersburg. I've visited about a dozen other little cities/towns (some of which have been so small that they don't exist on the 'Places I've Been' map on Facebook. I've made some awesome mates in our tour group. I've discovered anew why I like Jason. I've discovered I can occupy myself for up to 52 hours at a time in an enclosed space.
I visited the Hermitage, Mariinsky Theatre, Church of Christ on Spilled Blood, St Isaac's Cathedral, the Summer Palace (St Petersburg), Kym, Red Square, The Kremlin, The Armoury, The Church of the Assumption, the Bolshoi Theatre, the Mocba River and the Circle Line (Moscow), CCCP, The Church of the Spilled Blood (Yekaterinburg), Lake Baikal (Lystvyanka), the Decemberists' House, the local farmers' market (Irkutsk), Sukhbatar Square, the 20-foot standing buddha, the Capitol (Ulan Bator), Mao's Tomb, the hutong district, the Forbidden City, Beihai Park, the park opposite the Forbidden City, the south gate, two art galleries and the trophy district (Beijing).
It's been insane.
Write again later.
Goodbye to the first Korean Ang. Hello to the one who will do things on her own in her own way in her own time the second time round.
The Trip has been awesome so far. I've been writing postcards like a holy bitch on fire (27 at last count). I've spent approximately (52 + 26 + 12 + 18 + 8 = 116) 116 hours on trains so far. I've slept in Beijing, a ger camp, Lystvyanka, Yekaterinburg, Moscow and St. Petersburg. I've visited about a dozen other little cities/towns (some of which have been so small that they don't exist on the 'Places I've Been' map on Facebook. I've made some awesome mates in our tour group. I've discovered anew why I like Jason. I've discovered I can occupy myself for up to 52 hours at a time in an enclosed space.
I visited the Hermitage, Mariinsky Theatre, Church of Christ on Spilled Blood, St Isaac's Cathedral, the Summer Palace (St Petersburg), Kym, Red Square, The Kremlin, The Armoury, The Church of the Assumption, the Bolshoi Theatre, the Mocba River and the Circle Line (Moscow), CCCP, The Church of the Spilled Blood (Yekaterinburg), Lake Baikal (Lystvyanka), the Decemberists' House, the local farmers' market (Irkutsk), Sukhbatar Square, the 20-foot standing buddha, the Capitol (Ulan Bator), Mao's Tomb, the hutong district, the Forbidden City, Beihai Park, the park opposite the Forbidden City, the south gate, two art galleries and the trophy district (Beijing).
It's been insane.
Write again later.