It is my last day here in Korea. Bags are packed, mail sent, tickets all bought. Now just waiting til I go and get the bus. I spent last night at Anjirang, getting my fill of Daegu makchang and gopchang, a "delicacy" that I am unlikely to find anywhere else.
It has been almost seven years here in Daegu, far longer than I ever thought I'd live here, but it was a good seven years. Did my MA, met Yen, got to experience an amazing place for an extended period of time (I should write a book about it :P)
However, it is time to move on.
Truthfully, I am ready to move on. Sitting here I am not especially nostalgic or sad or excited to leave, I just feel very ready to hop on that plane to Manila. I do think that at some point soon I will be back here. We have too many friends here to stay away forever. But for now it is off to Manila and then China, where I will be working for a Canadian company attached to Guangxi University.
I'll have a quick chat with Paul on skype and then head to the bus terminal. Fitting as he was the first friend I made here in Korea, he should be the last that I talk too.
