Mulgogi Highting!

That is what I chant to myself when I'm doing my laps at the local pool. Mulgogi is "fish" (literally, water meat. Ha!) and "highting!" is a Korean cheer for sporting events (supposed to be "fighting" but them and their F sounds....)

Anyhow, yes, I am back in the pool after a long hiatus but I need to get in shape for the 8 day trek I want to do in Nepal. I'm three months out (holy crap!!!!!!!) and totally out of shape so here we are. A large reason I stopped going last year were the adjumas hogging up the slow lane and doing shit like just floating while people were trying to do laps. So far so good on that front.

The best benefit of swimming is how damn well I sleep. As some of you know, I've been having sleep problems for the past 7 months (haven't slept through the night in that entire time) and last night, I slept for a solid 6 hours and now I feel AWESOME! Absolutely loving it.

So yes, three months out from the Big Trip! I just bought my flight from Delhi to Kathmandu, the very first plan I've made. I've decided that I'm going to do Nepal first and spend about 2.5 weeks there and 3.5 weeks going through northwestern India. There is so much I want to see, 6 weeks isn't enough! Waaah, and my diamond shoes are too tight! But really, it has been a bit stressful trying to decide what my priorities are and budgeting and blah blah blah. Wish me luck!

Long Weekend....assah!

Read it and weep, suckas. I am in the middle of a three day weekend and it is glorious. It's Children's Day on Tuesday so in exchange for working Saturday, I got Monday off and my stupid flatmate has to work tomorrow and I can't wait to wave him off to work and then go to a bbq. HA!

I've spent the weekend doing pretty much nothing. Yesterday, I went to a park to play kickball and drink Japanese beer. After, I headed off to a bbq and subsequently got drunk enough to agree to norae bang. At some point, I decided that it was going to be a makkoli night and it went rapidly downhill from there.

Today, I've nursed my hangover, made some cookies (they turned out shitty because Joel bough crappy butter), opened a bank account, bought travel speakers, and ate at Taco Taco Chili Fun Time (not real name).

Sports day at the school was fun but exhausting. I was there all damn day and little kids take so much out of you but my school has such a sense of community and the kiddies were so happy to show off for their parents.