going to korea!

I bought a ticket to Korea for the week between the end of classes and my plane ride back home. I don't really know what's there except for kim chee, the DMZ, lots of plastic surgery, lots of churches, and fashionable youths. But isn't that really enough? If anyone reading has suggestions on what to do, please inform me. Otherwise I'll be forced to consult some guide book and end up in some cheesy tourist trap, like a kim chee museum or something. Actually, if there is a kim chee museum that might be the first place i'd go! Or useful Korean phrases might help, like: "Do you speak Japanese?" and "Where can I find a kim chee refrigerator?"

I put some new pictures up on flickr (http://www.flickr.com/photos/mdove/), so please enjoy. I am going to the train station a bit later to try and score an overnight bus ticket to Tokyo for the weekend after classes end. Otherwise i'll be forced to spend more money and glide down Honshu on a sweet Shinkansen ride. Damned if i pay more than i have to.

Did i mention i'm in charge of making the school yearbook? I wonder how i got myself into yet another position of authority and responsibility. Perhaps it is due to my constant flitting around from place to place--i never stay anywhere long enough for people to understand properly just how poor a leader i am. Although my resume might say the opposite, i am inept at leading groups, and usually find myself playing the role of disgruntled worker dissatisfied with the leadership of the captain and the direction of the project. So i often think it fit to try out the leader role myself, since i always have so many great ideas when i'm a bystander. Unfortunately, the leader role always enervates me of my passion and reduces me to a groveling cooperation zealot who reprimands the workers for wanting orders, and encourages creative thought like it's the road to salvation. But some people just don't like being creative, and they'd rather be given commands and pushed this way and that, anything to just get the hell out of there and be done with the task at hand. Yes, these are the people who act as the glue for our society, the ones who do not resist nor complain in the tides of injustice and tyranny, and prefer to escape down their rabbit holes when the flood has retreated. I hate ordering these bunnies around! Regardless, i need to have a finished product by next week and i am worrying about how i'll get it done with nearly no material. Something will be figured out. As my theory goes, that has yet to be unproven: everything gets itself done.