Anyways, I'm starting an AMA (Ask Me Anything) section to my blog that I will do every now and then. The idea is I will pick the first 20 questions and answer them, however I have had some fantastic questions that would require an essay to give a decent answer, such as the Korean art and music scene, Korean food and my teaching experiences, so I will save them and give them their own blog posts a little later. So, these are the first 20 shorter questions I have received (and I still haven't found my bloody drawing tablet pen, so no pretty pictures):
1. What is your real name?
Gilbert.
2. When are we going to meet?
Red light district, every Thursday.
3. A year in Korea, how has it changed you?
I'll cover this in more detail another time, but I suppose the main three points would be:
- I know how adaptable I am
- I'm less picky with food
- I'm so much cuter
4. What was the highlight of your trip so far?
It's hard to focus on a specific event. I'm a person who enjoys the smaller things in life, so its literally anything from showing Tom around when he first arrived to eating bus-corn with Tori on the ride to Seoul (I may or may not explain bus-corn later).
5. What is your style of guy?
A man with swag.
6. In the most descriptive way possible, what is your favourite colour and why?
Blue. And not a full blue. A green blue? Aqua? Turquoise? Teal? Off-blue.
Why? I feel it's just a colour that suits me. I'm not a ridiculously deep person so I'm not going to go into an essay description about the meanings of colours or the warmth of different shades, but essentially I am not a fiery person, I'm docile and passive. So despite the red hair I'm not a red person (this raspberry colour is as mad as I'm allowed to go in my current career. I'd have blue hair again if I could). But, I'm not quite pure and shiny, so its more an off-blue. A little more murky. Something imperfect, but perhaps a bit more natural.
7. What's been your best and worst experiences in Korea?
Best experience, perhaps just wondering aimlessly around Korea with my friends. If you don't have an agenda, that's when the random, excellent experiences occur, right?
Or Nanta. That shits awesome.
Worst experience is Korean winters. -20 degrees Celsius can fuck off.
8. What was your most recent awkward situation?
Coming into school with quite a luminous sun-burn and having the teachers (including the vice-principal) rubbing my arms and legs lovingly with cucumber.
9. What was the hardest thing to leave behind?
CATS! My lord! I love animals. Someone please give me a cat. I have nothing fluffy to love!
10. When are you coming to Atlanta?
When Tori buys me a bed.
11. Why weren't we better friends before?
Yes! Why weren't we?! Why does it take so long for people to realise my hilarity? I must give off that British asshole vibe.
12. Do you have a favourite student?
I did last year. A little tom-boy that would sit and teach me Korean. Her voice was intense. She sounded like she had been smoking for all her little life. Then she transferred schools at the end of last term and broke my heart. Now I'm one of those bitter teachers.
13. How do you contain all your awesomeness?
I can't contain it all. It leaks out on occasion and dazzles everyone (I'd also like to add that these are real questions - I didn't make them up nor did I pay anyone).
14. Who invented the lawn-mower?
Edwin Beard Budding in 1827.
15. What is your least favourite type of person?
Someone who doesn't respect animals.
16. Would you rather fight one horse-sized duck, or one-hundred duck-sized horses?
One horse-sized duck. I've played Zelda. One-hundred duck-sized anythings attacking you is certain death. Not to mention with added hooves. I'll take the duck boss. Bosses I can do.
17. Who made you so beautiful and big-headed?
They say Sai materialized from pure awesome and hair-dye, but no one knows for sure.
Also, thanks dad.
18. What was the strangest thing you've eaten?
Either cow-blood jelly soup or a boiled silk-worm cocoon (with the moth still inside). Neither were delicious.
19. What is one thing you want to do before you die?
Travel to at least 50 countries.
20. Why did you decide to start blogging again?
Because the weirdest things seem to happen to me. I'm scared that if I don't start recording them, I'll forget. Also, I'm not very sentimental when it comes to objects. I prefer pictures and notes, but carrying extra stuff when you're travelling is a hindrance. Having my photos, memories, thoughts and feelings digitally like this means I can see them any time without carrying bulk with me. And publishing them online means my family and friends can see what I'm doing if they so wish. The Facebook page was also for my parents who kept losing the blog link. Oh mum.
However these picture-less blogs are boring. I want my fucking pen!
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