Eagerly Awaiting Departure

Hello World!
This being my first post I figure I would make a bit of an introduction for those of you who don't know me. My name's Andrew, and I'm a 22 year old Newfoundlander headed off to the Republic of South Korea to teach English in a few weeks time. I finished my degree last year at the Memorial University of Newfoundland and decided to trying out teaching in Asia. Korea was a no-brainer due to having the highest pay out of any country in the area, free accommodations and airfare. As for my departure, no, I still don't have a firm date but that should be remedied quite shortly as I am sending my visa paperwork off to my school tomorrow. I will be living and teaching in a city called Suwon.

As I am a bit of a film buff and wanted to check out some of Korea's culture before I left I decided to check out a few South Korean movies recently. Two that I particularly enjoyed and highly recommend are Oldboy and The Host.

Oldboy is a fascinating story about revenge and I plan to check out a couple of the director's similarly themed films soon, Sympathy for Lady Vengeance, and Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance. The plot is too complicated to go into in detail, suffice it to say that you should go check out this movie. Now.

The Host was a monster film with a surprisingly good and believable plot. Created by the unsavoury and clearly mentally unstable Western scientist pouring formaldehyde (go figure) into the Han river, a tadpole mutates into a massive monster that jumps out of the water and terrorizes the populace. The story revolves around a family whose youngest member gets trapped in the sewers by the monster and cannot escape. Great movie.

In any case I will leave it at that. Next post will have pictures of home!