EPTHA! You may be thinking... Yet another fool who dreams of learning a whole new language instantly and going to Korea to seamlessly slide into Korean culture, watch/play starcraft and bang Tossgirl/"easy Korean girls"?!? I hope to convince you (and myself) that I'm being totally serious (about the first half at least. hah)...
Some background info... I’m currently studying my legal qualification course after getting a law degree in the UK. I’m also lucky enough to have a solid solicitor’s job lined up already after the qualification course. But, during those 6 hours awake, while lying on my bed thinking “wtf? get some goddamn sleep”, I realised I wasn’t fully content. I don't feel like going into everything just yet but the main reason is that I’m only 21 at the moment. I've not taken a single gap year.. uni life really whizzed by and before I know it, I'm going to have to start pulling 12 hour work days out of my ass until I'm 70. I don't think I'm ready for that shit yet. I need to put the brakes on the work-train. (Don't you love cliches...). "I need to revitalise" myself (as I put in the letter to my employer).
I think I've (just about) got the funds to have a good time in Korea. I don't expect to become fluent by next January (ETA in Korea ) but hopefully I should be able to have a barely intelligible conversation with a Korean person. If not, I'm pretty good at charades haha.
I'm giving myself until the end of the week to see if this is just a passing fad I'm going through. If not (and my gut tells me it's not), then I'm sending that letter I've already drafted to my employer asking for the 6 months deferral. I should get it but I would need some serious e-hugging if I got myself mega-hyped up over nothing. After that, I'm going to try learning some foundational Korean while I continue my legal qualification studies. That crap should finish in June, at which point I should have organised a 4-6 month intensive Korean language course. (which my employer should fund :D) Come next January, I should be posting in a PC-bang somewhere in Seoul!
Soooo I hope I've given some substance to my mission. If there’s any interest, I’ll try to keep this blog alive – maybe it could be some sort of guide to anyone intending to do the same thing. Anyhow, writing this really helped me organise my thoughts. Thanks for reading! I'm off to google “learn Korean"...
Edit: Sorry for the 0 posts. Thats kind of a mini-story in itself.
