Focus!

As I have said like 50 times already, it has been a summer of planning my next step and saying goodbye to many people. I think with so many people going, and my own plans being settled, I can't help but think about life after Korea. I had been getting down about another year in Korea. Not that I should. Great job, good vacation, school going well, but I do think I have been here too long.

In fact, I have been putting so much time in to what I will do this time next year that I haven't really been thinking much about the next 12 months, a fact Mike reminded me of this weekend in a less than subtle manner after I had been going on about it for a lengthy period of time. However he is right. School is happening now. I can't think about dissertation when I am barely a third in to my coursework. Fourteen months is also plenty of time to do anything I haven't done in Korea or do stuff I love for a last time. I have never been to Gwangju or Boseong or Seoraksan. There are several cities and islands I have not seen. These fourteen months should be a great opportunity to explore them.

I have sixty or so weekends left to me, which is a lot. Obviously a few will be given over to school, rest, vacations etc. However, I should spend a few of them doing the rounds here. It'll all be over before I know it.