Some afterthoughts

I'm mostly over the jetlag and starting to get back to business as usual, with the semester looming in only a couple weeks. Getting the photos up is a major accomplishment, thank you very much!

I put all my little mementos away in my scrapbook for Korea, and it really hit me how different spending two and a half weeks there was to living there for a year. I didn't get under the skin of what was going on, really. I heard a lot about the 23 hostages that were taken by the Taliban, two of which were killed. I heard about unemployment and the current low ratings of President Roh, and I learned that nothing much has changed for EFL teachers there. But my life for those two and a half weeks was that of a tourist, staying at hotels and eating at restaurants. Granted, a tourist with more insight than most, perhaps, but a tourist nevertheless.

Still mulling over my journal a bit, so there will be more to post here soon. I have a few topics I want to talk about, but they'll have to wait until I get some other things done that demand my immediate attention.