Monday return to Seoul
5:18PM, Monday, August 7, arriving in Seoul and only 30 minutes or so out from the BV.
The return ride from Gyeongju marks the beginning of the end of this trip. In 36 hours, I’ll board the flight from Seoul to Chicago and this time will go back in time, so to speak.
I’m not nearly enough of a wordsmith to be able to write about this ending phase without resorting to tired clichés, so let’s just condense this down to the basics: Yada yada yada, endings are bittersweet, yada yada yada, always carry a bit of Korea with me, or, alternately, I’m leaving something of myself in Korea, yada yada yada, grateful for this life-enriching and perhaps life-changing experience, yada yada yada, met some wonderful people and seen some amazing sites, yada yada yada, wish I could have brought you along in reality rather than simply vicariously, yada yada yada.
There, that’s done. Of course the platitudes are true, but unless I think of a more original way to mark my thoughts, I won’t be returning to the topic. Tomorrow we head to the DMZ, a side-trip that I’ve been anticipating excitedly ever since I first learned about the Korean Studies Workshop back in April.
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The return ride from Gyeongju marks the beginning of the end of this trip. In 36 hours, I’ll board the flight from Seoul to Chicago and this time will go back in time, so to speak.
I’m not nearly enough of a wordsmith to be able to write about this ending phase without resorting to tired clichés, so let’s just condense this down to the basics: Yada yada yada, endings are bittersweet, yada yada yada, always carry a bit of Korea with me, or, alternately, I’m leaving something of myself in Korea, yada yada yada, grateful for this life-enriching and perhaps life-changing experience, yada yada yada, met some wonderful people and seen some amazing sites, yada yada yada, wish I could have brought you along in reality rather than simply vicariously, yada yada yada.
There, that’s done. Of course the platitudes are true, but unless I think of a more original way to mark my thoughts, I won’t be returning to the topic. Tomorrow we head to the DMZ, a side-trip that I’ve been anticipating excitedly ever since I first learned about the Korean Studies Workshop back in April.
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