Anyways,

I had posted 3 different academic articles on here to showcase my writing, in case anyone was to click on the link to this blog that I had posted on LinkedIn. It's fitting now that I have let go of them, not that they're deleted forever or anything, but that I have removed them from here because this was never intended for that. And I'm not currently pursuing the goal of someone recognizing my writing abilities to offer me a job.

Instead, I'm going to make it up as I go in Jeju Province, South Korea. It's an island. EPIK found me to be qualified enough to offer me a position there as an assistant English teacher, so I'll trust them that they've made a decent decision. It looks insanely beautiful.

I hope it feels like being in a video game,

because that's what these pictures bring to mind.

Eliot

"And I have known the eyes already, known them all--
The eyes that fix you in a formulated phrase,
And when I am formulated, sprawling on a pin,
When I am pinned and wriggling on the wall,
Then how should I begin
To spit out all the butt-ends of my days and ways?
And how should I presume?"

T.S. Eliot

My Flyer for the HC Student Fair

Recipe

milan's recipe for a tasty pasta dish:

1. Cook the pasta. 2. Take some salami/sausage and stir-fry it until it's crispy. 3. Mix the pasta with tuna in oil (one can), the salami/sausage, some cheese (gouda, emental, eidam, green cheese etc.) and with Mexican vegetable (you can buy a special mixture of Mexican vegetable, if not, just use some red beans, peas, corn and baby-carrot). 4. Put some sour cream on it. 5. Put some basil on it. 6. Serve the pasta a la Milan to the hungry Ryan :)

Hergé Museum

i went off on a solo trip today to Louvain-la-Neuve (a confusingly named sister city to Louvain (which is the French version name of Leuven)). reason for going to Louvain-la-Neuve: the super fresh Hergé museum that was officially opened just last month. it was so so so nice, such a pretty building and nice museum. i'm glad they put so much money and effort into the museum, considering how great Hergé was.

not allowed to take pictures inside but here are pictures of the building itself (so cool, in my opinion):

Tintin 4 life.

http://www.museeherge.com

Exams

i'm currently studying for an exam and it makes me SO excited to go home. which is sad cuz this has been great and it'll be super sad to leave. especially leaving my new friends, and i know they all feel the same way about leaving. it's a bummer. but i do miss nashville and everything it entails.

it's gonna be such a good feeling to finish my exams.

tomorrow it's medieval mysticism in the low countries (my first oral exam) which i'm not extremely worried about but it'll be relieving to walk out that door after finishing.

friday it's myth & symbolism, an anthropology course. could be difficult cuz most of the course i was confused, but while i was writing my paper for the course things came together. hopefully it'll be decent. it's oral too, and that stresses me out, so again, it'll be amazing to finish.

the next monday is theology & hermeneutics of the new testament. this has been looming over my head for the past 2 months, intimidating me hardcore ever since i realized i would be talking one on one with the professor, trying to sound intelligent. oral exam. i'm gonna have to study pretty hard for the few days i have before it. this will feel SO good to finish. especially if i don't crash and burn.

after that all i have is an oral for film & literature, but it's basically a conversation about the paper i wrote with my partner, so i'm not stressed about that. don't really have to study or anything. but that's the very last thing so of course it will be cool to be done.

i'm getting so close. so so so close. i will be done with the hard stuff one week from today. can't wait. and i'll be home in a little over two weeks. hello home and family and friends and good ole summer timez. i look forward to seeing y'all.

Mustaches

picture of our mustache party at the beginning of june, capping off mustache may

zach won "creepiest mustache"

jeff won "most sinister mustache"

and i won "cutest mustache" -- what? oh well

...and then there's bianka who does not have a mustache

...i finished comparative european literature, had the exam this morning. not bad. glad it's done.