Umitobukabutomushi to South Korea

Raaaart. Here I am in Hiroshima on the evening before my big exam studying my little heart out. Haha, yes of course I am joking. I haven't done a skerrick of study in the last week. Unless you count pulling out my kanji book and resting it on my lap while I stared out the window and imagined myself in a time in the near future where I won't have either an exam or a speech looming as study that is. My eye may have caught a glimpse of some grammar drills on Tuesday, but I don't think I even bothered to check whether I had them right or wrong. At this stage I'd rather not know. Let's just do the freaking exam, get back to Okayama and think about the much more pressing issue; talking about my country in the foreign language I seem to have given everyone the impression that I can speak.

But I already feel heaps better just because of the fact that I have just decided to not care about my exam anymore. If I do fail, well I can just take it again next year. If I don't then Yipee! Meanwhile I am thinking about a South Korea trip during my time off. Be bloody cold but anywhere that's not cold is too far to consider for the small amount of time I have off. Plus I have a friend in Seoul who has been waiting for me to fulfill my promise to come and visit for about 8 months now... Time to expand my Korean as well, so far I can only say "I'm hungry", "I'm full" and "me too". Anyway, I shot her an e-mail yesterday asking what the chances are of her having time to hang out with me are and we'll see what happens from there. You can catch a ferry called the Umitobukabutomushi from Fukuoka straight to Pusan, only 3 hours and about $250 return. Not bad aye. The name of the boat is funny cos kabutomushi means "stag beetle" which are those big black beetles with horns on their head and giant pincer arms that the kids at school are obsessed with and keep in plastic boxes filled with dirt and get them out to dangle in my face. And umitobu means kinda "to fly over the sea", it's a hydrofoil so I guess it makes sense but to me it's just funny because of the way I was introduced to the kabutomushi beetle.