Oh hey!

Wow, I'm so happy it's finally November! You know, because there's no internet in Korea in October.... Y'all knew about that, yeah? Well anyway, now that November is here it's time to get back to bloggin'.

I'll try to keep it short and sweet, and put up just a few pictures - I need to get back into the habit of making this a weekly activity. 

Let's throw out some topics and deal with them. 

My health. 

So I have Arrhythmia. An irregular heartbeat. I was having some chest pains and fits with a racing pounding heart on and off for about a week before I finally went to the doctor. He gave me an EKG and diagnosed Arrhythmia (which I guess is a blanket term for a lot of things) He gave me pills to take once a day for 30 days and to get better rest. That's all for now. They took a blood sample and I'm to go back in 30 days for the checkup. I don't really know what else I can say about it. I've been sleeping better this last week, and trying to eat a bit better as well. I will keep you posted, but so lately I've been having less attacks so, just going to take the pills and see what happens. Next week I'm going to join the gym to start jogging again, as per docs recommendations.

Halloween.

We had a halloween party for the kids, and a haunted house as well. It was a really fun day. The female teachers did face painting and played games with the kids, (like feeling the peeled grapes and guessing what it is, etc.) while our boss assigned Tylor, Brendan and I to set up and prepare the haunted house. We were terrifying, of course. 

We would get waves of kids sent in, and the navigated a pitch black room with us set up doing various things to scare the kids, my schtick was basically sitting down like a puppet, and when they got close enough a light would shine on me, and then brendan would jump out and scare the bejesus. bigeezes. bahjeezes out of them. It was a good time. At the start of the day, when the kids were really young, we were getting an alarming amount of cryers, but the late elementary school kids had a lot of fun. The middle/highschooler kids were a bit too cool for school, but what can you do. 

Pictures! We didn't really go as anything, other than just making ourselves look scary. They don't have a lot of costumes here because halloweens not nearly big enough, but I found a wig, and a rubber mask which I turned inside out, and put on some weird clothing to finish it off. 

 

Me one the left and Brendan on the right

That was on a Friday, we had no classes, just fun day all day for the kids, and then Saturday we went out to Seoul. 

Me and Tylor wanted to go as characters from black and white TV, after seeing a few pictures of this woman:

(That's Make-up, not computer trickery)

But after a few trial attempts, we couldn't get it right, so we decided to change the plan. We used make-up to make us look dead, and then we made nooses and wore them around our necks. Tylor wore one noose, and I wore two. He was hung, and I was well-hung. 

Ba dum Cha.

It was a good night, mostly only westerners out in costume but a few koreans as well. There was a real solidarity amongst people in costume, and we made a few friends and stayed out to greet the sun. Sorry to say we had no camera.

Life as its been.

School is good, no complaints about the day to day. I started going back to piano school, though I made a deal with the owner that for half price I won't get lessons but can just come in and play whenever I want to. It's good for everyone involved I feel. My fingers are rusty after a summer hiatus, but they're sharper now even after just a week of it. Tylor and Brendan and I have been living together in this house for a few weeks now, and it's a lot cleaner than you're imagining. I've been giving English lessons to an ex-girlfriend and shes teaching me some Korean too. We meet in Seoul every week. That's been going well, Tylor is going strong on learning Korean, and if he keeps it up (and I don't) he'll pass me in a 

couple months. I better keep it up. 

As well me and Tylor our brushing up on our French. When we stopped taking it in highschool we could communicate amongst ourselves pretty proficiently, but since then we've lost a lot. We've got some books now and we're going to try as much as possible to relearn what we've forgotten. We realize it will be an indispensable tool if we end up world-tripping for any long amount of time. 

Life as it will be.

This weekend we're going to an annual lantern festival that boasts 15 000 lanterns on the cheongyecheon  (a man made stream with lights and waterfalls etc) that should be gargeous, and I'm looking forward to it. I have to be in Seoul early to tutor, and Tylor will have to take his first solo ride on the subway to meet me. He's worried but it should be easy. Other than that, just planning to relax until the end of the month. Taking pills alone makes me uncomfortable enough, I'm not interested in any drinking to coincide, so it'll be a sober month for me. And that's all it took. 

That's going to be it for now. I hope to get some good pictures this weekend, so I'll upload after them. Really sorry about the time off, I'm going to get back into this habit, I promise. 

Cheers all, 

Miss you. 

Jason.


P.S. I forgot about a whole bunch of pictures I just got off of my camera, here's the link to them on facebook, you can see the failed attempts at being black and white as well as some halloween and other pictures Facebook