Saturday, May 24, 2008

Guess I'm Sick Again

Having had a rather unpleasant week, owing to my allergies (most likely yellow sand is the culprit for setting me off), I was eager to go out with friends last night. Lizzi and I went to Baskin Robbins, where I tried mango ice cream for the first time. It is officially my new favorite ice cream flavor, even surpassing coffee ice cream in deliciousness. After that we hung out with our Korean friend Shaq at the Seven Eleven in Sungongdong for awhile, soon being joined by two more friends (honestly, everyone walks past that spot!). Then we all went out for fruit soju which I had not yet tried. My friends let me pick the flavor, so I picked kiwi, which tasted fantastic.

I got in at about 1:30 this morning and went straight to bed. I was feeling okay, and my eyes, for the first time all week, were not bothering me. When I woke up this morning, everything had changed. Now my voice is almost gone, I'm feeling just plain lousy, and I seem to have a bit of a fever. Owing to rain, the beach is off for today, so my friends are going to Busan to see the aquarium there, and then heading to a night club. I'm thinking of sitting this trip out. I just hope my voice is back by Monday. It would be next to impossible trying to teach the kindergartners with no voice.

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"Passage—immediate passage! the blood burns in my veins! Away, O soul! hoist instantly the anchor!
Cut the hawsers—haul out—shake out every sail!
Have we not stood here like trees in the ground long enough?
Have we not grovell’d here long enough, eating and drinking like mere brutes?
Have we not darken’d and dazed ourselves with books long enough?

Sail forth! steer for the deep waters only!
Reckless, O soul, exploring, I with thee, and thou with me;
For we are bound where mariner has not yet dared to go, And we will risk the ship, ourselves and all.

O my brave soul!
O farther, farther sail!
O daring joy, but safe! Are they not all the seas of God?
O farther, farther, farther sail!"

~Walt Whitman, "Passage to India"