In other news, Happy June! The weather here is so-so right now, but for my weekend in Seoul it's supposed to be mostly sunny with highs hitting 23-29-ish, so it should be a wicked time. I'm meeting Mark at the Seoul city hall...getting pretty freaking stoked about it! Feels kind of surreal to be making plans like that...meeting smack-dab in the middle of a world-famous capital city with an awesome friend from back home.
It's pretty funny, I was telling my coteacher yesterday that even though I lived in Canada for 17.5 years, I've never been to its capital city. And though I've spent a lot of time in the United States, I've never been to its capital either. Saturday will be a bit brutal, I'm going to have to catch the 7 a.m. train out of Masan to get to Seoul on time, which means I have to be up at 5:30 a.m. at the latest. I'm cheaping out on the KTX aka bullet train on the way there, and maybe catching it with Mark on the way back.
Oh, I also edited a few more pictures from Jeju...
The famous Jeongbang Waterfall (the only one in Asia that falls directly into the sea):
And another of Hyeopjae Beach on Jeju Island:
In other news, the Canadian dollar is still taking a dive...as of this morning, it was worth $0.978 US (ie: it's STILL stronger than the US dollar) and 1,107 won. Considering not too long ago it was at around $0.948 US and 1,150 won, this is great to see. Since I'm making money in a currency other than Canadian dollar, a high dollar sucks bigtime for me. The less the dollar is worth, the more I effectively make here. Sometime this month I'm going to have to send money home so I can pay my student loans, and if I were to send home (pick a number out of the air) 4 million won (about $3,600) today vs. about a month ago, I'd have an extra $140-ish in my bank account. Not a massive difference, but it's going in the right direction, so it gives me hope.
Okay...I have a class to get to, so I'll keep this short and sweet. Have a great day...I'll be back tomorrow.
T
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