Almost Done

Anyang-Haseyo( Hello in Korean),

Time is flying, I am done here on March 1st and will be heading off to travel in South East Asia until April 15th. I will be visiting Malaysia, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam. I haven't posted much lately since not much has changed. I have been saving up to travel and keeping my outings to a minimum. The won has more or less stabilized, but unfortunately it is at a very crappy exchange rate. I don't see it changing much before I leave, so I guess I should not fret about things I cannot control.

I did just celebrate my birthday. There were no huge festivities. I will go out and have a party of sorts this Saturday, but I will try and keep that experience OFF the internet. My mom DOES read this too..... :) One interesting thing did happen: on the way to my birthday dinner we ran across a very interesting game. In the states we have those "claw" machines where you put a few coins in and try to pick up a teddy bear etc.... Well, we ran across one pretty much identical to those except instead of a toy, you try and pick up a real live lobster. Of course I had to try (yes mean, but hey, I could eat a whole lobster for 25 cents) Unfortunately I did not win, but a young 7 year old Korean kid almost got it. Sadly, it squirmed at the end and wiggled out of the claw. Imagine how proud he would have been to bring home dinner.

Other than that, I'm just getting ready to travel and head home to catch up with all you guys!!

-Luis

PS: I have been scoping the job market at home and it is not looking that great. If you hear of any good jobs for a country hopping bilingual pseudo-engineer let me know. I'm open to just about anything. :)