By the way, I don't know which idiot came up with idea to tell Korean students of English to go speak to foreigners. Honestly, it is bad enough getting stared at, crowded, treated like a retard.....
I have absolutely NO interest in spending my free time with meaningless, time consuming conversations that invariably start with "Herro!" and continue with "Where are you from" or "I am now student of English conversation". Of course I have developed strategies to discourage such attacks. But today all of them failed. What was I doing wrong? Quietly I was walking along, with my earphones on. That should be an indication. I ignored the first "Herro!" and didn't take off my earphones for the "excuse me". But I made eyecontact, thinking it could be different this time, something might have happened. "I am now student of English conversation" followed by "I want to talk with you."
That was bad news, I remained silent and accelarated my pace. "Where are you from?" "Deutschland" "???" "Germany!" I thought I was sending a clear message."Miguksaram animnida!" But he kept following me. "But you speak English great?" "No." "What you do Busan?"......We were approaching a big shopping mall. I asked him "Where are you going now?" "I go to my home. How about you." "Me too" I said and dove into the stream of bodies entering the mall. "Bye now!"
Close call. 5 more minutes and somebody might have gotten killed.

Amazingly, most of my students were back today. In fact, I got a few new ones also, they must have heard of the cool porn movies I've been showing. We had great fun today, I was able to give a highly entertaining performance trying to explain the Flash MX interface unsing a Korean version of the program. Bless Macromedia for keeping keyboard commands the same.

Yes, I'm seeing Choi again. He assessed that my Poi- level was low (from not drinking enough Poi cha) and that I need to release bad energy. When I told him during the treatment that I would die (there is only so much a person can bear) he reassured me that: "No! You live! Dead body feels no pain!" Sounds great. Gotta go again tomorrow....

Another store just opened, a Korean version of The Body Shop, carrying pretty much the same items with slightly different labels for a lot less money. It's called (wouldn't you know it) The Face Shop.