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Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Day 16: The Big Surprise

I have good news and bad news. i think finishing as an optimist is the best thing, so i'll start with the bad news. the bad news is that i won't be living in my little quarters for the next week updating the blog. why, you may ask. well, here comes the good news:

this morning i got a phone call from Kyu and he said that he arranged for Jean and I to go to JeJu Island. the only thing is that we leave tomorrow morning at 5. we're going to stop in KyoungJu, which used to be the old capitol of korea, and see some sweet ruins and do some Buddhist incense burning and who knows what. then we are going to stay the night there at a top notch hotel and get free massages and room service and wear robes. after waking up, we'll catch a bus to Pusan, and spend the day at the beach and snorkeling. we'll spend 2 days there looking at sites and then on to a ferry to the Island. this is some of the bad news i guess, because its a 12 hour ride from the main land to our destination. i guess that just means a lot of solitaire and 20 questions.

we'll arrive on the island on sunday the 27th, stay for 3 days, and then head back home, which will probably take a day or so. our estimated return is the 1 of august. i'm sorry, but i don't think i'll have that much time to keep you updated. but if i get attacked by a shark or get stung by a jelly fish and Jean has to pee on me, then i'll be sure to remember and write about it later. (cuz thats the kind of things that happen on an island, right?)

1 comment:

Haskell's said...

Seriously... i love you so much. I think it's the greatest thing you have a blog. When do you get home? I hate that i don't talk to you on your wednesday night drive to the salt lake byu campus with paul. i hope you are doing well!! much love, Erica