And Aubrey Was Her Name...

Like a lovely melody that everyone can sing; take away the words that rhyme, it doesn't mean a thing.

Sunday, November 02, 2008

A Bit of Math

It has been 1501 days since I first moved to Korea. I now have 211 days left here. For those of you still working out the math, that's just 12.3 percent to go.

I have worked at three schools here. 33% were hell on earth. 33% included responsibilities that could have been performed asleep. And 33% I created and now run with my business partner.

Additionally, 16.9 percent of my life has been spent based from Korea, meaning four birthdays passed as I have been a resident of Korea.

While here, I have added 10 more countries to the list of those I have visited, putting the official total at 20. I will have made 100 percent of friends and family at home jealous with that information.

Then comes the somewhat diaphanous totals of friends I have made here, depending on whether they are calculated by facebook or by the amount of time spent and intimacy created whilst they were here.

And given this slight excess of statistics, I must finally mention the approximate 300 days I spent loathing living here, proclaiming with 100 percent certainty that when I left, I would venture forth without a trace of nostalgia. Yet perhaps, against my preference to never be wrong (or at least never to admit to it), that last figure may be slightly off. Perhaps, PERHAPS, I will miss life here.

And if I can be convinced to sit down for long enough, perhaps I will figuratively pick up this blog again and, in future posts, explain my reasoning for this. Perhaps.

Happy now, Dave?