First, my sister & brother had some questions about my last post, so I'll get to those. Presumably, the housing will be handled as it was with Sara and Nathalie, which was Sara staying in the apartment until the day after her last training day with Nathalie (which was a Friday), and Nathalie stayed at a hotel paid for by Hetty. The next day, Saturday, Hetty coordinated Sara being out and helping Nathalie move in. So I presume (yes, yes, I know, is that REALLY the wisest choice?) that this will go about the same. I am actually going to get started on packing this weekend, mainly packing up the things I haven't been using/needing/wearing yet or often and storing them at my friends' places (which hopefully they're all still willing to do, as they were with my staying with them if I needed a place between jobs), so I'll have a good head start. Because after that, it's just my 2 pieces of luggage (I'm mainly talking about prepacking my liquor, some heavy winter things that are seasonally useless now, lol). THEN I will likely have to join my stuff at a friend's place, because so far, no job, though I've only begun the Korea job search now that it appears I can do so. As for the kids (and me) having to slog through all that math while the kids 2 years older are still just counting fruit and shapes, yes, I will take some of your sympathy, Kris, even if most was for the 4-year-olds, who provided me with even MORE job satisfaction today when I had to do all the cutting out, gluing, and management of nine 4-year-olds doing the same, over-their-heads-but-how-DARLING crafts in 35 minutes. Your heart breaks for them, and my mind was breaking because of them, lol.
The crazy portion of the story is short and sweet, which you might possibly be getting used to from me now (no?). During a conversation about meeting people but mainly girls to hang with, some dating site advice was meted out, advice I disagreed with because, believe it or not, on okcupid here, there are EIGHT men total within a 50 mile radius of me. Since this poster was in the same region/area, I said that. And 2 expats said, "Yeah, a 2-4 hour train ride is totally reasonable dating commuting distance," and, "You'd do it for dinner or drinks!" (the HELL I would!), as well as, "That distance isn't that big and besides, love is worth any distance."
JUST when I'd decided that at least the expat women here were exempt from the fucked-up-Westerners-in-Asia, 2 of them go and say that. I mentioned the Chicago concept of city and burb people largely preferring to not intermingle due to qualifying as long distance, which they scoffed at, as if that was the rookie mistake of any young & foolish naif.
Who the SMEG are these people?!
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