I don't want to leave this place.

I've only been here since the end of May, but I've fallen in love here.  Not with Korea per se, not with Seoul, but with all the people in a little semiconductor-cleaning company office in a little borderline-countryside city known as 천안.  I love the dinners that go from 6pm until well past midnight.  I love the laughter and the chaos that ensues when soju begins to unravel everyone's inner craziness.  I love sitting in the background and listening to them talk, even though I only understand what's going on about 50% of the time.  I love it when they try to explain something in their extremely limited English... LOL.  I love the kindness that they constantly lavish upon me, whether it be in the form of snacks or sodas or candies or sushi dinners.  I love the joy they receive when they teach me something new.  I just love how I feel like a part of a family here.


I don't want to leave.

I don't want to leave.

I don't want to leave.


I feel like once I leave here, I won't really belong anywhere else...