Apologies for my woe-is-me rant in that last post. No, I won’t get rid of it :p

It is about Week 8 into my Korea furlough. I’ve started to have bouts of homesickness, especially when concerning my dog Aji and my good friends back home. Though I’ve made a slew of awesome new people here (funny how a chain of events, through one person, can alter the course of your stay/life…).

Went to Mudfest ‘09 in Boryeong this past weekend. They say the mud from this area is good for your skin so the townspeople organize a festival for it every year. They haul in truckloads of the mud and have all sorts of activities for people to just get dirty and rowdy. With cheap alcohol, loads of 20-somethings, and bare bodies, yeah it can be a recipe for trouble… or just wicked fun, whichever way you look at it!

I got painted on with mud, handprints on my ass/boobs, and for the first time had a decent amount of beer (about 8 ounces or so). Alcohol’s not really my thing, but what the hell, we were at Mudfest and I let loose!

The girls all went out at night and 2/3 of them came home with tales of late-night makeout sessions and discovering “19! He was NINETEEN!” (ahem, I won’t mention any names!). I took way too few clothes even though my bag  weighed about a ton. Had some awesome soon-tofu with Kathleen.

I’ve wanted to post a bunch of pictures on this blog but Facebook is way easier for adding pics… Maybe I will make them public :) Some of them, anyway.

Since I’ve been here I’ve not bitten my nails once and they are freakin’ long! Longer than I’ve ever had them, I think… though I find myself wanting to bite all the time rawrgh.

This post is all over the place but that’s ok. I think I will come back and add to it later.