Memories.

Goodbye to:
Korean dogs, with their painted toenails and coloured ears
Baseball on TV, on most channels, anytime of the day, anyday of the week
The noisiest gym in the world, with every TV on a different channel, turned up full volume
BigBang! I will miss your tunes, and you're pretty cute
JimJilBangs, I will never forget you, or the sight of so many bare-naked ladies

Goodbye to:
Samgyetang
Amazing raw fish restaurants
Kimchi, for breakfast, lunch and dinner, it was a love/hate relationship, good for my health, bad for my hangover

Goodbye to:
Loads of gimbap at 4am on friday nights
Stopping for late night snacks at the tents in the street, and it turning into more soju with the ajoshi's

Goodbye to:
Incoherent, hilarious, conversations on the bus with the ajumma fishing ladies, oh how you cheered my mornings
Slapstick exchanges with darling Heejin
Slapping Heejin after she pointed out my "white hairs, white hairs!!! hahahaha"
Laughter at my every attempt to speak Korean, which somehow sounds more Italian
Rarely getting where i need to go because of my terrible Korean
"Gem mah! Nice to meet you!" "No, no, we've met. You say 'nice to see you' " "Okay, okay."....next time...."Gem mah! Nice to meet you!" "No, no..." and so on and so on...

Goodbye to:
Absence of individual thought
Thinking INSIDE the box

Goodbye to:
Fish smell, fumes smell, cinnamon smell, kimchi smell, samgypsal smell,
The smoking pesticides truck circling the school yard during mozzie season, and the children playing in the haze
Muhaksan, you nearly killed me, but it was a great view
지리산 넉차 such a delicious green tea

Goodbye to:
Noise pollution
LotteMart
Working in country schools, tractors bumping past, people lazing in the streets
Big f*off bugs!!
Rice paddy fields, wild sunflowers, ponds filled with lotus flowers, unfinished bridges
Templestay, what a gorgeous memory

Goodbye to:
Cheap booze, formaldehyde and drunken soju debauchery
Cheap cigs
My gym instructor, who I've always had a crush on, but couldn't think of anything to say

Goodbye to:
Mrs Choi, Mr Kim, thanks for looking after me
Dream Bay (yer right)
Hello. Hello. Hello. Hello. Hello. Hello. Hello. Hello. Hello. Hello. Hello....never did get that tattoo
Korea, wow. What a ride.xx.