Dynamic Motion.

dude for real

I am tottally updating my blog from a sauna. that's right. I am in an underground bathouse, it rocks man. there are some serious saunas here, like 98 degrees...celcius. thats over 200 of your puny ferenheight degrees. word. this place is super expansive and 24 hours, they give you a loaner tshirt and shorts nad there is a retaurant and taa, an internet cafe. all this and more for 7 bucks. I could see living here and sweating myself away in the oven. Anyway, today I subbed in annies school so that i will actually be making money as opposed to spending it, which is a plesant change. the kids run the spectrum from adorable to annoying as all hell, but the moneys good and i am glad to have the job. I will sub another full day tomarrow and then blow my well earned pay on 'club night' which aparently only comes around once a month. noribong here i come. expect hella pictures.
i hope you all are doing well.
-D

oops, did i mention how many freakin people go to the track? we are talking 21 to 20 thousand. that's a lot of bets.

join me won't you, for an eventing of music at the beloved "skunk hell" club in downtown Seoul.

punk. rock.

fighting and loving. that guy on the right is going 'oh!"

punk rock girls. yum.

this is how it was. I always feel blurry.

AH korea, a country where punk is, aparently, not dead.

if we were on a date, but we both had homework to do, I might look like this.

annie in a hall

Seoul subway (for aviv who complains of not enough Dave pictures)

Annie's first time at a racetrack. she sure can pick the ponies!

only in Korea. even the racetrack is cartoony.

and they're off!

Dave at the finish line. go popcorn! run you stupid horse!

army fashion

I will not bomb you

look! it's annie in korea, getting ready to teach the kiddies.

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ah the streats of Mauritius

couple of Mauritian dudes

An awesome AIDS poster

Club virus in Mauritius (shady!)

green mountains, blue sea baby

green mountains, blue sea

cleaning out the camera time. heres a beach shot of mauritius.

another beach (one of those boats might be future morgans!)

this is the huge living room from my appartment in Mauritius. it's amazing how much $10 a night will get you if you know where to spend it.

this was one of the 3 bedrooms. killer

and heres my awesome kitchen in Mauritius

weekend update with kevin neelan

well that was an interesting weekend in Seoul.
It was a weekend of cultural excanges. Annie took me to a really cool buddhist temple, and I took her to the Seoul Racetrack. Some people say annie aint got no skillz. these people don't know that annie can pick the ponies like nobodys buisness. we walked into the book and she picked a winner for the very first rate. she bet a buck and made back almost 30. thats a good payout. over the afternoon she picked 3 out of the 5 winners. i didn't make out nearly as well but we were both smart enough to put money on the horse 'ocean gypsy' (hi morgan!) who rad a good race and got first in the 4th race. Hopefully i will be able to upload a few pics of that soon but my hello software is not werkin like it should. so yeah, after the races we headed downtown for dinner and the weekly punk show. which rocked! its so nice to be in a country that punk isnt dead in yet. in fact, that's my favorite part about korea, it seems to be a land untouched by irony, which if you know me, makes me very happy. over hear when the story slogan is 'super lucky happy day', they mean it, similarly, when they do punk music, the DO it, with loud shouty voices and a strait face, i had a good time fo sho. the only downside was, to get back to the apartment we had to leave at about 10pm which is crazy early for any punk show, (even one starting at 7). the next morning we took the subway out into the 'burbs and visited this huge Zen buddhist temple, prayed a bit, meditated a bit, and listened to an amazingly wise and funny monk. he was aparently very famous and it was a real treat to have been able to hear him spread his wisdom. this much i can share with you: try to spend 10 minutes everyday asking yourself 'who are you' (directed at yourself), try to stay in the moment i guess. good advice, wise man, pictures coming.

and this is my kinck ass kitchen in mauritius...or

shoe part, fish, the only, spirit

Seoul is a crazy place.
it's a pretty intereswting comparison between annie and I, we left the US on the same day. her to korea and a teaching job and furnished appartment, me off wandering the globe and shaking my near terminal case of nihlism. I think to both of us these past weeks have occupied much more real time than the observed time of the people we left back in the states. or some of them anyway. I am looking forward to coming home, to see my house and roomates (one old one new) and being in spring on my own ground. I will need another job, as my savings are almost gone now. and I will probably need a plan of some sort. Eddy sent me an email today saying that he is putting college on hold (again) and going to join up with the traveling carnival (again) so that he can make some cash quick. He invited me to come along as my cash is running low and i told him I would think about it. Part of me is afraid that youth is going away and that I am setting. setting like cement sets. Maybe one day I will go off to another strange trip, another get rich quick sceme that never gets you rich enough quick enough, or some fool travel pipe dream, and find that this is my life. that the desision not to live a life of safty and saving has been made for me by my constant rejection of it. how long can I live bouncing around? how long can luck last? I'm not too concerned now. 'I'm just 22 and i don't mind dyin' as the song goes. but one of these days 22 will turn to 33, I know someday i will want my own bed and a slow life. oh the melodrama of it all. It must be the South Korea weather. sometimes spring feels like autumn in my jostled bones.
-over and out

this just in!

ok so things are hard to keep updated sometimes. i will hit the high points.

My Visa request to India was denied. they talked to my bank and found that not only did i not have enough money to survive in a developing country, but that i had no credit either. so they basicly called me riffraff and told me i couldn't stay in their country. lame. the moneys not such a big problem. I have another bank with enough bucks to get me home, but Mauritius, who also considered me riffraff, only issued me a 14 day visa, which expired before i could resubmit my application to india. Long story short, i rerouted my flight and got a plane to Korea after spending 28 hours locked up in the Mumbai airport. fun fun fun. but now i am here. annie has a cool (but super microsmall) apartment, but it's in the middle of the city and near all sorts of cool things to do. how nice it is to be in a real city again. korea is a really funny place. they have a parlor in the mall that looks like a restaurant but is actually a room for people to play board games in. Classic! you just walk in with a couple of friends and say, 'we would like to play scatergories' and boom, it's done. also, as with china, there is a wealth of nonsensical englist shirts and nicknacks. oh the soft spot in my heart that is nonsense shirts. expect to see some of the highlights later.

holy leader!

the inside of a temple (offerings)

Maha Shivaratree

look, another tourist!

Hare Krishna!

biker

the island in the center of the lake

Maha Shivaratree

shoes off in the flooding holy waters

the holy lake. on the last day of the hindu pilgramige Maha Shivaratree

this is neil. he's one crazy kenyan. We got drunk as sailors before noon and almost didn't survive a night of trying to find a bar in a hindu/muslim neighborhood.

this kid rocks

an iraqi who thankfully doesn't mix politics and drinking. well he did shout something about bin laden a few times...

this is how i felt. in a liqor store after hours, drinking with a baker/pimp, a chinese merchant, an iraqi, and the chief of police, after the shut the doors i thought i would be dead by morning, so i bought the house a round and danced a jig.