Still too cold for my taste. Even got a nice dusting of snow this evening. Good night to stay home a practice my Korean. Yep, I am finally resolved to learn to speak the language of the natives. More or less. There is no excuse for being here over two years and having a vocabulary of 50 words. Pathetic really. Anyway, I am back to taking classes on Tuesdays and Thursdays on post. Real basic at this point, just relearning the alphabet and writing in Hangul. The instructor won’t allow using the left hand since it apparently is disrespectful. Seeing as how I write the characters equally bad with either hand (does that make me ambidexterous?) it is no problem for me. Apparently I will actually be able to read after 4 weeks, although I won’t know what the hell I’m reading.

I’ve also got access to the Rosetta Stone program through Army Learning Online. I did the first lesson on there tonight. I actually did pretty well at recognition, but my pronunciation is an embarassment. Ah well, got lots of time on my hands, and it feels good to do something relatively productive with it.

Spent last night recovering from my Monday night over indulgence and I’m thinking I will reserve my Tuesday and Wednesday nights for hanging out at the villa. Monday, Thursday, and Sunday I have darts. And Friday and Saturday are Friday and Saturday…although I hope to spend at least one of those out of Itaewon.

Best laid plans and all that.

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