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I completely forgot about Thanksgiving until someone mentioned it a week ago, and then forgot it again until someone mentioned it today.
Weird things make me homesick, like this trailer for Battle Los Angeles. There's a few shots in it where you see the sky above the city, and cheesy as it sounds, the sky doesn't look like that in Korea. That clear, perfect, beautiful blue that I grew up thinking was universal, at least in the summer, doesn't really happen here.
On Monday, in muay thai class, I was (accidentally) kneed in the balls. Today we worked clinch and I (accidentally) elbowed someone in the face. Not elbowed as in "elbowed my way through a crowd", elbow as in "swung my elbow into his cheek really hard". I guess it all evens out in the end. I still feel bad whenever I hit someone harder than I meant to, though.
Christmas shopping is hard.
I decided I want to get my weight down at least to 143 pounds. This means, as of today, I need to lose 6 pounds while still gaining muscle. BLEH.
I am not in any danger from North Korea. This whole thing seems to be a much bigger deal back home (I've gotten over 20 messages asking if i'm ok) than it is here. The only way this affects me is that the won dropped against the dollar, which is total bullshit because all my money is in won. NK is just desperate for attention. Oh, and food, because they're too crazy to manage to feed their citizens. It's not an accident that they showed some U.S. scientist these fancy new nuclear weapons plants while they're desperate for us to send them food. They just want us to think they're enough of a threat that we send food in exchange for promises of slowing their nuclear development. Crazy bastard.
I guess that's all for now.
Weird things make me homesick, like this trailer for Battle Los Angeles. There's a few shots in it where you see the sky above the city, and cheesy as it sounds, the sky doesn't look like that in Korea. That clear, perfect, beautiful blue that I grew up thinking was universal, at least in the summer, doesn't really happen here.
On Monday, in muay thai class, I was (accidentally) kneed in the balls. Today we worked clinch and I (accidentally) elbowed someone in the face. Not elbowed as in "elbowed my way through a crowd", elbow as in "swung my elbow into his cheek really hard". I guess it all evens out in the end. I still feel bad whenever I hit someone harder than I meant to, though.
Christmas shopping is hard.
I decided I want to get my weight down at least to 143 pounds. This means, as of today, I need to lose 6 pounds while still gaining muscle. BLEH.
I am not in any danger from North Korea. This whole thing seems to be a much bigger deal back home (I've gotten over 20 messages asking if i'm ok) than it is here. The only way this affects me is that the won dropped against the dollar, which is total bullshit because all my money is in won. NK is just desperate for attention. Oh, and food, because they're too crazy to manage to feed their citizens. It's not an accident that they showed some U.S. scientist these fancy new nuclear weapons plants while they're desperate for us to send them food. They just want us to think they're enough of a threat that we send food in exchange for promises of slowing their nuclear development. Crazy bastard.
I guess that's all for now.