honestly part 1

so these four posts come from my response to an email from a friend.

you are right about blogging and i think i tend to put a positive spin on things and honestly for the most part my experience is positive. but i usually dont tell the negatives because mainly i dont like to be negative and i sometimes dont like other people's responses. i dont like people thinking im depressed because i vented to them (when i have no other english people here) and i dont want people to think my venting means these things are so huge i deal with them all the time and i hate it here. because i don't. so on that note. take what i say for what it is. nothing more....i would say nothing less..but i dont know if that is true.

have you made more friends?

haha, i think i have redefined the term friend here and i think you have to. because acquantance is too big of a word. and i can't spell it. haha. i really enjoy both Yanny and Baejee not only because they speak English but they are cool and we are alot alike so we can relate. i mean like i said in my blog Baejee loves the Simpsons, not showering and from her stories she seems like shes the friend who will act stupid. hehe. i can relate. so in terms of friends, i would say Yanny, Baejee, and maybe Jason because again another person i can at least somewhat relate with and enjoy hanging around. then there are people i meet and am working on getting to know better, and i also call them my friends. for instance Erin from canada who i found on the internet and i finally met up with last night. she is my friend. hahaha. so i met her, her boyfriend and about 4 of her friends who are from the States, Canada and Europe. coolio.

there is aliona the ugandan woman i met last sunday who invited me to her house already this saturday! then there is patricia who i met through a connection in the states and we randomly do stuff together - pretty randomly because we are so far apart. i met an american at church who just arrived here and i call her my friend. so i think anyone else would call this networking more than friends....but i like calling them friends.so yes, i am but it is hard. harder than i thought. oh and all the people i meet on the internet through various websites about seoul but i have yet to successfully meet one of them - except erin. and as i was talking to erin and co last night, i was telling them how there are no other foreign teachers at my school and erin was like, well it seems like your korean teachers are treating you well, taking you out and stuff. none of them had experienced that from their schools. so what i lack in foreign connections i am making up in korean connections. and honestly, would you rather be taken around Seoul by a Korean or a foreigner? so you know, its all about perspective. :)