I am seeing so many different things that I will treasure forever even when I leave South Korea. It’s been a blessing and a experience to travel and work here at the same time. It’s hard to imagine that I have been here for a full year, and that it’s almost time for me to pack my bags and head back to my family.
I saw this old chair standing next to the riverbank on our way to downtown. It didn’t struck me at that moment but I took a picture, looking at the picture again, I realized the significance of that chair.
My life is like chis chair, it started out as this brand new piece of furniture. Some-one bought it because it would be perfect in their home with the rest of the furniture. But with time and due to new styles, it got thrown away. I feel like the empty chair.
I was happy as a child, no really big worries other than to get through school and what to do on weekends with my friends, but that all went away and the real world started.
I have to settle down and start a family, and that scares the “hell” out of me. Like the chair, I feel that I might get tossed away when I not needed anymore.
I took this picture in Gawangju city (near downtown), South Korea.
Ag nee, Mocka, jy maak my sommer depressed!
Skud jy nou Suid-Korea se stof finaal van skoene af? Kan jy nie langer bly/teruggaan nie? Dit klink of jy graag sal wou.
Hi boendoe,dis maar net n gedagte. Ek gaan probeer terug kom,maar mens weet mos nie wat die toekoms in hou nie.
En as jy nou die Ingelse taal so gooi?
Moca Java, personal experience taught me that the very thing which was regarded as junk becomes another’s treasure.
Boer, die stoel het met my in ingels gesels
Mefri – I should have seen it in that way, I think I was pre-occupied with my thoughts and what I have seen through the chair. It’s still sad because I couldn’t take the chair with me on the bus. It would have been really funny.
Jy moes maar daai stoel oppie bus gelaai het, Mocka! Imagine, ‘n stoel wat in Ingels gesels! Hiehiehie…
Dit was ‘n mooi stoel op sy tyd, Ingels of te not…
Skuus, dis seker ‘n ernstige saak vir jou, maar Boendoe het my nou skoon aan die giggel…
Om afskeid te neem is nie lekker nie, maar dink net aan al die herinneringe wat jy het… niemand kan dit ooit wegneem nie.
Nou het ek alles gehoor! hahaha Die engelse stoel sou ek wraggies ook nie daar gelos het nie Boendoe
MJ niks om voor bang te raak nie, glo my die lekker lê nog voor! “Onthou my woorde”
Ja wel die ernstig is weg en ek kan ook nie ophou lag oor die stoel se ingels nie,
Ek weet die lekker kom nog, dis net daardie oorgang fase wat nie so lekker is nie, maar nou ja. dit daar gelaat. Ek sien nou meer uit om in SA te te kom en myself te ooreet. Met of sonder my ingelse stoel mater.
Amper daar MJ, amper daar! Vasbyt ou!
Hi Kaalvoet, bly om van jou te hoor. Ek sal so maak. Ek het natuurlik vandag beleef wat jy elke dag doen. Ek het Kindergarten kids entertain met n batman suit. It was hilarious to say the least.
MJ, vertel ons so bietjie meer van jou Batman-impersonasie…
27 dae MJ, die tyd stap nou!
Hi Wipneus, ek kan nie meer wag nie. Ek sien nou net uit na daairdie naweek wat ek op die vliegtuig klim. So ek sit nou skouer in die wiel, dat alles net moet reg loop. Lekker dag vir jou Wippie.
MJ maar jy moenie van ons vergeet terwyl jy so skouer aan die wiel sit nie! Waar is die musiek?
Lekker dag!