I'm not unemployed anymore - I actually have a very fabulous job as a preschool teacher with the University of Michigan child care centers. But I'm still posting, albeit a little more irregularly, and I don't want to ignore the personal progress I've made since starting this blog by renaming it.

Blog inspiration: I read 48 States in 48 Days by Paul Jury in the summer of 2011. It was fabulous...although he planned way less for his roadtrip than I would have. And at the same time, my lovely Anna was constantly reminding me that our lives were awesome, despite the fact that we didn't have job prospects, new cars, boyfriends/husbands, houses, etc., like so many people we knew. So, in an effort to appreciate my life and the crazy uncertainty that it is, I started writing this blog about the little adventures I have. (And by "writing a blog," I mean "making a list" because I make lists, not narratives.) Even if there isn't a BIG adventure that happens every day, I try to find at least one thing to list :)

Sunday, April 15, 2012

Born To Be Lively (Apr 13)

  • Happy Birthday to my wittle brother Ben! He's 14 today, oh my goodness.


  • Joe and I took the bus to Daejon together tonight. It was fun to have someone to travel with – but even though our seats were 24 and 25, we weren’t next to each other! :/ I ended up next to a Korean man. When he started to talk to me (in English), I thought he was a lot older than me (30 or 35 at least) but he said that he was still in university. (All Korean males older than 18 are required to serve for at least 3 years in the Korean armed forces – so he could have very well been 26 or 27.) We talked for a little while - and then he asked for my number! Oy. I mean, flattering, yes. But also, oy. We exchanged numbers but I don’t plan on contacting him in the future. When the bus stopped for a bathroom break, I moved up next to Joe. I hoped the guy wasn’t [too] offended – Joe and I were talking a lot before this guy and I started talking – but it was just too hard to try not to do anything awkward or not give the wrong signals in those tiny bus seats. We arrived at the Daejon bus station a little while later (it was so clean/new/pretty!) and found everyone and then headed to dinner. We had yummy food and even got to celebrate Deanna’s birthday! 

Outside of the bus terminal
Sculpture outside of the bus terminal
Mmm 삼겹살

Happy Birthday, Deanna!

  • After that, we dropped our things off at the hotel (the first arrivals managed to find a decent hotel near the bus station at a good price – woohoo!) and took taxis downtown to explore the nightlife. We ended up at a bar that was kind of loud, but had a lot of nice seating (couches and big booths) and there weren’t many people there. 
It was fun and a good way to end the evening :)
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