. . . . . I was away for a few days and I've been glued to reading this book as well as trying to find some work for the summer here, once my little gig in Gongju is over. I did have a fabulous weekend though in Daegu visiting family (of course adopted family), the Young Falcons, and a friend or two as well.
Getting to Daegu (the city I call my Korean home), is kind of a chore from this city known as Gongju. I asked the owner of the academy where I work for a ride to the bus terminal to get me started on Friday night. He drives one of the vans that transports the kids from other schools to the academy or to their homes after the classes are finished. So I took a bus at about 8:40 pm, to Daejon (5th biggest city in Korea I think, which is still over 1 mil). I took the ride to kind of an outskirt area of the city, which meant I then had to walk to the subway station take a 25 minute ride to the KTX (train) station. I should have just paid a taxi the extra money so I could get there earlier. Then I got to the train station about 10:00, about five minutes before a train for Daegu was leaving. Due to this bad timing I had to wait about thirty minutes and catch the next train. Once I got to Daegu, it was about 11:20, so I just took a taxi to the neighborhood, and finally made it home.
On the way to the Daejon, I was received a call from Seong Ha, the educational director of the Young Falcons of Daegu, a group that I helped tutor on the weekends last year. The kids had some flight training on Saturday, and I was invited to come along. So it looked like most of my weekend was going to be spent with that group, and not resting like I wished for, but that's ok. (to be finished soon, I got a book to read).
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