Alright, I got another day off unexpectedly, although this was supposed to be a day off anyway I really wanted to work since I really like money and I'll need all I can to make it that first month in Korea. I don't know what I'll do that first month in Korea but I can promise you that it will be cheap. I may not have internet in my apartment or even a cell phone for the first month.
That will be a good thing as it will force me to one of two things that I will need quite a bit of in the first few weeks sleep and exercise. The exercise is because my doctor told me to start doing it and because I'm too lazy to start now. The sleep is obviously for the jet lag that I will have to overcome. Either way now I have about 6 days of working left then I'll take off to Raleigh for a weekend of parting with friends and shopping because that's the tax free weekend and I need khakis and they are expensive so the best time to buy stuff is when there is no tax. Duh!
Sunday, July 26, 2009
Saturday, July 25, 2009
The 10:30 Post #6: The Government
The Republic of Korea is a Semi-Presidential Republic. Don't ask me what that means I only took an American Government, but from what I gleaned from wikipedia it's a fancy way of saying they have basically all the parts of republic governments. President? Check. Prime Minister? Check. An orderly and deliberative National Assembly. Well you be the judge, look, I'm not saying that I'm not worried about this but the only time I see this kind of stuff if in other countries or in cartoons when a chair is thrown. I wholly look forward to going to my first National Assembly Brawl. Why can't our politicians be this awesome!!
Friday, July 24, 2009
The 10:30 Post #5: Packing
So back to it. As I mentioned before I went out and bought a new 5 piece luggage set for this trip. What I may not have mentioned is that I've never made a trip like this before. The biggest thing I've done as far as moves is to and from College. Obviously the only limitation there is how many cars you can take. It took one to get me moved in and like 3 to move me back home so I had collected some stuff.
This is obviously different though since I'm moving around the world and by the way I'm gonna have to figure out a way to pack a ton of clothes into those two large bags find the right sequence of pants and shirts to pack into the garment bag then stuff like deodorant, toothpaste, etc. to put into the duffel bag. It's going to be tough but I've got over 3 weeks left and think I can whittle it down then I'll just have to pack the new clothe I buy on the weekend of the 7th-9th of August(Tax Free Weekend, oh another topic
This is obviously different though since I'm moving around the world and by the way I'm gonna have to figure out a way to pack a ton of clothes into those two large bags find the right sequence of pants and shirts to pack into the garment bag then stuff like deodorant, toothpaste, etc. to put into the duffel bag. It's going to be tough but I've got over 3 weeks left and think I can whittle it down then I'll just have to pack the new clothe I buy on the weekend of the 7th-9th of August(Tax Free Weekend, oh another topic
Thursday, July 23, 2009
The 10:30 Post #4: Orientation
Hey-ho. This post isn't about my orientation it's about my little brothers College orientation. As a bit of full disclosure although this is the 10:30 Post it is being written at 10:50 pm on Wednesday.
My Mother & I are heading up to Greensboro to take my brother to his orientation. He's going to A&T so we are just going to check it out. In other news I got some good news from my recruiters Footprints, well it's not so much good news as much as it is just something else for me to read. Also they adjusted how much they recommended that we bring from $1000-$1500, down to $500-800, which is much more doable. Happy times are here again people.
My Mother & I are heading up to Greensboro to take my brother to his orientation. He's going to A&T so we are just going to check it out. In other news I got some good news from my recruiters Footprints, well it's not so much good news as much as it is just something else for me to read. Also they adjusted how much they recommended that we bring from $1000-$1500, down to $500-800, which is much more doable. Happy times are here again people.
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
The 10:30 Post #3: Luggage
So last night I went out shopping for luggage because I have none of my own, I started out on the internet and looked at places like Macys, JC Penney's and Dillards at the local mall for me, Northlake. Needless to say they had some pretty trendy and high class stuff... for ridiculous prices. Lets say I wanted to buy 3 bags a big 28" bag, a 19-25" bag and then a duffel for carrying on. I probably could have spent $250-300. That's more than a third of my plane ticket. I would have to an extra two weeks to make that (more now that they are shutting down the hours). There were some pretty trendy looking brands like Swiss Army, American Tourister and other ones.
Whelp, I left the mall and went to Wal-Mart because they have everything for cheap. I like cheap. After getting some help finding the luggage aisle I saw something that looked kind of frail and cheap I think it was called "Protege" and they had like a 3 piece set for $40, that's pretty sweet but once again I don't want my luggage to fall apart. Next in line was American Tourister which I was surprised to see but happy. Very, very happy. So they had a couple of things, a four piece set with the star being a 25 inch suitcase with "spinner" wheels for $74. Then there was a 5 piece set with the center piece being a 28 inch case with regular wheels and the second case is a 24incher. $94. Winner! I consulted home base then promptly purchased it.
Next up: Packing for a year long trip a Month in advance of leaving
Whelp, I left the mall and went to Wal-Mart because they have everything for cheap. I like cheap. After getting some help finding the luggage aisle I saw something that looked kind of frail and cheap I think it was called "Protege" and they had like a 3 piece set for $40, that's pretty sweet but once again I don't want my luggage to fall apart. Next in line was American Tourister which I was surprised to see but happy. Very, very happy. So they had a couple of things, a four piece set with the star being a 25 inch suitcase with "spinner" wheels for $74. Then there was a 5 piece set with the center piece being a 28 inch case with regular wheels and the second case is a 24incher. $94. Winner! I consulted home base then promptly purchased it.
Next up: Packing for a year long trip a Month in advance of leaving
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
The 10:30 Post #2: Of Flags and Sports
One of my favorite things in the worlds is sports. As someone who wishes to be a sports broadcaster, I love to listen to guys talk and converse about the games and events they are calling so I will probably be bitterly disappointed for a while until I can pick up some simple sports Korean.
One of my favorite sporting events all around for commentators and the event itself is closing in on the finish, the Tour de France. There's just something about getting up relatively early and sitting in my pajamas and watching men do ridiculous amounts of exercise to get someplace they could get to in cars 1000 times easier, but I digress. It is still one of the worlds great test of man weather your doping or not, obviously more of a test if your not. But during the time I'll be in Korea my whole sporting world will be turned upside down. How will I watch live sports in America from Korea. The answer pretty early in the morning and possibly over the internet. But one other thing I've seen is a lot of Australia in this tour not because they are winning but because they are crazy. I mean if your gonna fly halfway around the world do it for a winner people. Plus lets be real, if America has an Olympic rival now it's probably them, well at least Summer Olympics, they suck at winter sports. But back to the point I think that the flag that I've seen a ton in France should be adopted as the new national flag
If this doesn't scream Australia I don't know what does, the only thing that would fit better is if there was a drunk Australian rules football fan fighting the kangaroo. Now that I would pay to see.
One of my favorite sporting events all around for commentators and the event itself is closing in on the finish, the Tour de France. There's just something about getting up relatively early and sitting in my pajamas and watching men do ridiculous amounts of exercise to get someplace they could get to in cars 1000 times easier, but I digress. It is still one of the worlds great test of man weather your doping or not, obviously more of a test if your not. But during the time I'll be in Korea my whole sporting world will be turned upside down. How will I watch live sports in America from Korea. The answer pretty early in the morning and possibly over the internet. But one other thing I've seen is a lot of Australia in this tour not because they are winning but because they are crazy. I mean if your gonna fly halfway around the world do it for a winner people. Plus lets be real, if America has an Olympic rival now it's probably them, well at least Summer Olympics, they suck at winter sports. But back to the point I think that the flag that I've seen a ton in France should be adopted as the new national flag
If this doesn't scream Australia I don't know what does, the only thing that would fit better is if there was a drunk Australian rules football fan fighting the kangaroo. Now that I would pay to see.
Quitting day change
Just got back from work and they put up a new schedule for the rest of the month. Funny thing we didn't have a schedule until the end of the first week and now we have a revised one that, wait for it, cuts down on everyones hours for the rest of the month. We used to get just 2 days off a week and now we get a third day off. Hurrah! or not. It also means that I'll be quitting one day sooner than planned because they gave me Thursdays off now. I can deal with that because it's just one day closer. One less day and not just one day but two more days because it's atleast two extra days and could be more depending on what the do for the first 5 days of August but that's it for tonight I'll chat you up in the morning with the 10:30 post
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