Because

Assuming everything goes according to plan, I should be in South Korea in less then a month. I'll be there for a year, teaching English to elementary school students, and living in Yongin, a satellite city near Seoul. The main question people have is "Why?" and the truth is I don't have a particularly good reason. It's a lot of little reasons, which in my mind sum up to the simple answer, "Because."

I decided I wanted to go somewhere else. Not just as a vacation, to take pictures of all the famous buildings and then leave, but to actually live there. I want to be alone in a foreign country, forced to learn a new language and make new friends, to live there, work there, and play there. That sounds interesting and fun to me.

People often seem to intimate that I'll be "missing out" on everything I'm leaving behind. I can't argue with that, but it does seem rather narrow minded. Wherever you are, whatever you're doing, you are missing out on everything else. It's up to you to decide what you're going to miss, and whatever you do with your life, you'll end up missing a whole lot.

The purpose of this blog will be to give as honest an account as possible of my experience in Korea. I'll gloat about the good things, whine about the bad things, and take pictures of the funny things.