A Day At The Beach, Update

It seems that the little dog SaeNal died a little while after that day we spent on the beach. I found this out after making a stupid unwitting joke to Chong-Sook about wanting to make dog soup with her (SaeNal was a she). I guess she was in a new home, because Chong-Sook had to give her away, and she died falling off a table, the poor thing. I wasn’t close to the dog, so as much as a I feel bad for Chong-Sook, who really loved SaeNal, for me it’s more an experience of strangeness. I always find it weird …

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Last Night…

Yesterday was a very frustrating day. Our all-day practice turned out to be a lot of waiting and waiting, followed by only a few hours of real work. (Today, we can hope, will be different.) We played at the Led Zeppelin club’s 1-year anniversary, and then took off for other pastures. We ended up at a popular foreigner hangout in Jeonju, which is funny because the popular foreigner hangout there seems to me different than the on in Iksan. In my town it seems a place for kid stuff, but in Jeonju I like at least some of the crowd. …

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