Hiya Gang. It's JC again. It's been awhile since I've updated this blog hasn't it? Well, I have been busy, but from now on, I swear to update this shat regularly again.
So, as most of you may or may not know, I'm in South Korea now. I declared I desired a gap year after getting accepted into a certain college, and the folks there kindly let me have a year off from the swamp of sorrows that it education. So I'm free! Unlike most of you people who I assume are in college! HAHA! But while the gap year does allow some time off for me, I do somewhat envy you guys who are in college. Apparently, college is a great experience and I feel like I'm getting left out of the loops. Whatevs, I guess. Not like I'm never gonna get to go to college. So, I'm sure you're all wondering whats going on with JC in SK. Well, allow me to fill you in. In the style of the Bun-Dong variety...
After flying for 14 hours in a metal coffin some have imaginatively called an 'airplane', I got off in the In-Cheon Airport in South Korea. My grandfather arranged a guy to meet us there and transport us to our old home which I had left 8 years ago. My old home is in a place called Bun-Dong. You see, Bun-Dong is not a very nice place. It's nothing like that place that PSY describes in his hit song 'Gangnam Style'. That's where my cousin lives. Oh btw, speaking of Gangnam-Style...
IM SICK AND TIRED OF THAT SHIT. KOREANS NEWS IS ALWAYS GOING OFF ABOUT HOW THAT SHITTY ASS SONG IS POPULAR AROUND THE WORLD AND IN AMERICA. They are always showing some white/black/non-asian people going the dance from bun-dong style or saying how great the song is. It practically turned PSY into a national hero because everyone thinks he's done some great job spread k-pop and the korean culture. Goddanging, the news are even showing the shitty parody videos some white kids with too much time on their hands made! Why are Koreans so crazy about this song being crazy on youtube! GAAAAAHHH I CANNOT ESCAPE PSY! But, back to Bun-Dong.
Bun-Dong would be among the poorest part of Seoul. Every night when I try to sleep, I hear some drunken guy puking, singing, shouting, fighting, or doing something that can't really be described in english. I see signs of domestic violence everywhere, and the streets are filthy and smells putrid. After living for 8 years in the boring serenity that is the suburban usa, I must admit its quite a change. The only good thing is that apparently gangs of scary young people don't exist around here. At least not the ones like in the usa. It ain't hellhole or new jersey I guess, but it's fairly bad.
We live here because my grandparents live here, and the Korean tradition decrees we must live with our parents when they get old. I haven't got much qualms against that. Honor thy parents and all that palava. But kinda ticks me off that we own a GREAT ASS apartment in Gang-nam, and live in Bun-Dong, the literal geographic opposite of Gang-nam. My parents say that we don't really need to live there, and that living in Bun-Dong is fine, but I kinda get ticked. Apparently, my parents have decided we're gonna continue to rent out that place for at least 2 years, and there's nothing I can do to convince them otherwise. So, here I am in Bun-Dong, hearing a family being torn apart due to financial issues next door while im sitting in the bathroom, humming a theme to 'Battle on the Big Bridge" from Final Fantasy IV. I really feel like I don't belong in this neighborhood, but I'm sure I'll grow out of my discomfort. So, I'll cover topics other than my neighborhood now. Such as my internet.
It sucks. You thought internet in Korea would be great right? I did too, until I would have to resort to leeching off my grandfather's wifi with a shitty almost broken computer my sister gave me when she got a new labtop from her job. Due to the fact my grandfather uses to shittiest connection availble, and the fact I use some random linksys thing that was randomly lying aound the house with a computer that practically breaks down if you use it for more than 90 minutes, the internet I'm using is pretty much at the level of dial-up. Whoop-de-doo. So you can stop envying my internet in Korea, cause whatever concoction you have cooked up in college is probably better than mine. Such misfortune!
I'm learning stuff in here as well, btw. Taking a course in Japanese and Chinese every morning! Yup, Korea is full of hak-wons (tutoring places) where you can learn all kinds of stuff. So everyday, I wake up at 7 am, and ride the subway to Jong-Roe (A place much better than Bun-Dong, but not as good as Gang-nam) and learn until 1 pm. I'm hoping to learn a lot over the nest year. I think knowing Korea, Jap, Mandarin, and English will really help in me getting a good job when college is done. Also, I want to watch Japanese anime without English subtitles too. So, I have been keeping myself busy here. Speaking of busy, I work out now.
EHHHH! You say, "JC, the weakest of the weaklings, the slothful monster, procrastinator extraordinaire, is working out now???!!!" Yup. I realized over the last couple months that I will never ever achieve my two goals of 1)Being immortal and 2)Getting a girlfriend if I stay the weak nerd that I am. Surprisingly, working out everyday has been quite fun. Although I usually hate moving, once I started to dedicate myself into going a gym everyday, lifting weights and running actually started to become fun. Although this may be the result of masochism or insanity, I would really like to believe that it is due to my powers of dedication.
So, over the next year, I'm gonna work to change myself into a better JC. One that actually has some muscles, quad-lingual, and updates his shitty blog at least once every week no matter that cost. Wish me luck I guess!
~Best wishes, JC
PS: also please talk to me whenever you see me online. It's really lonely here. I haven't really made any friends here yet, and all my old friends in korea don't even remember me i think
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