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Korea is a small country, at least compared to America. I have to keep reminding myself of that.
for example, when a famous korean music group came to campus, i was thinking, "wow, they came so far just to play at a university". And then i realized, well they can't have had to travel more than like a hundred, hundred fifty miles tops to get here. And since they're really only famous in Korea, it's not like they don't have time because they're touring fifty cities or something. all they had to do was hop on a train/helicopter for thirty minutes to two hours, and that's it.

And today we went on a "cultural field trip". I got on the bus, and i was wondering how long the ride was going to be.
But then i realized it doesn't matter to ask, because the country is so small that we couldn't be driving for thatt long until we hit the coast. And even if did drive that long in the end i wouldn't care, because we would be at the beach.
but like in america, who knows? we could drive for days and still be in the same country. especially texas being so big, to drive to another city in texas could take hours, so it is always good to know about how long your drive will be. but here, it's usually never more than an hour to get anywhere.

it's kind of cool, because everything is so accessible. but at the same time, it's so small therefore so not diverse and that's not cool.
it's just a funny feeling to live in a country smaller than your state.

carousel

i think it would be really really neat,
to make a hugee merry go round.
huge i say

but you have to wake up kind of early to ride. so when you first get on your llama, you're carouseling maybe in a forest early in the morning when it's just starting to get bright but is mostly still dark, and it's super magical. and there are just so many trees, and it smells so fresh and it's just so quiet.
and then it goes to a desert as the sun is rising and it's all sand and no matter how far you look, you can't see anything manmade just all sky and sand dunes and colors.
and then a jungle rainforest kind of thing in the morning, and part of it is a pocket of jungle with a big waterfall with really clear sparkly water.
then during day it goes to prairie fields, with a super blue sky and a lot a lot of wind,
and then it reaches somewhere way up north and the sky is gray because it's snowing and you just go through a forest of trees that are all covered in snow, and everything gives off a white glow.
and during late afternoon it's a pond and all the reeds and all the ducks, and everything is warm orange,
then it's sunset and you're at the beach and the waves are so big and so loud and you even might get splashed a little, and then this guy comes out of the center of the merry go round and gives you an ice cream cone.
and the air smells salty and now the sun is going down.
and then it's night and you're just somewhere, but it's hard to say because it's pouring and raining and thundering so hard, but in the back you can barely make out the mountains and you have nothing to do and no worries and no obligations and it's just so peaceful and the rain is so thick and it's all you can hear.
then the sky clears up, and it's midnight and the ride ends. and you get off, and you're just so so tired cause it's been a long day.
the ending of the ride is the perfect backyard, i guess it's yours. maybe mine. with really soft lush grass, and this is the part where you just lay in the grass and look at the sky, because it has five million stars, and then fall asleep.


some parts of your ride, have music.
so far the songs are: steven kravis' "through the kaleidoscope", "dawn" by Jean-Yves Thibaudet , Beethovens seventh symphony, Settler by Balmorhea, and Chopin's opus 25 no15 Raindrops prelude. and this one acoustic guitar solo song that i have no idea what the name is or who it's by, but it's very pretty i assure you.

and this merry go round only goes in one circle.
and if you try to comprehend how in the world it works, you don't win.

good night

we had to make sentences in class in korean, "-----, and that's why -----".
my teacher gave us pictures and we had to say why the picture was so. she didn't like, "because he's a boy, he plays video games" or "because she's a girl, she's eating chocolate".

today i went to the city, and i ate a waffle. it had cream and honey inside, and i think that is a really superb idea. i mean i could tell it was fake cream and fake honey, i don't even know if that is what it was supposed to be but it was really good. but it could be so much better. man,
imagine a good quality delicious fresh waffle, spread with dollops of homemade whipped cream, drizzled with honey....
and then you fold the waffle like half sandwich, because the waffle is a whole waffle you see. and then you eat it and the cream/honey filling is enough so that when you bite into it, cream slightly bulges out of the edges and it is oh, so heavenly.
upgrade that sucker.

tonight is movie night for me and myself and i.
but i is kind of backing out because i want to go to sleep, even though i told myself that we would watch a movie tonight. personally myself still really wants to watch a movie tonight, but since i is tired and and thinking, i could just get an extra two hours of sleep, it has turned into a predicament.