Some Thoughts

I’m slowly starting to understand why everyone in Korea says that if you go home for your vacation, it’s hard to go back to Korea.  I will definitely be going back – if I didn’t I would be losing out on a significant chunk of change, not to mention the belongings I left over there – but man, it’s going to be really hard to get on a plane in a little less than 3 weeks to go back to a country that really, I would almost say I hate.

I have really been enjoying my time here back home in Washington DC.  The city is growing on me a lot faster than I expected it to, and of course, it’s wonderful to be once again waking up next to Marc in the morning.  Unfortunately, due to the devaluation of the Won, I am going to have to jump onto a job a lot faster than I had expected when I get back, but I can always take some sort of retail job in the meantime while I look for something better.  I will have no debt when I get back, and I estimate that even with the devaluation I will still have around $6k after my debt is paid off.  It’s a third of what I was expecting pre-Korea, and half of what I was expecting after I re-adjusted my estimate once I was in Korea.  But, it’s still enough for me to live frugally off of for awhile if need be, and it will become a nest egg once I get any sort of job.

Thankfully, because I will be living in a city with good public transportation, and because Marc has a car, I will not need to immediately get a car when I get back.  I don’t want to rely on Marc, so I will get one soonish after I return, but it will not be an immediate concern.  Rent in DC is expensive, and rent plus a car payment (or, hell, even a really cheap used car) would reeeeally put a financial strain on me.

Anyway – just some thoughts.