the main reason i've had a hard time posting here over the past few weeks is i've sorta taken on a second job, making me much busier. my super-talented and super-macho friends jorge and sandra recently made a pilot for nickelodeon and got it picked up as series. the invited me to work on the series, but by then i had already made my decision to come back to korea for another year. when i visited them and saw what they were working on they proposed the idea that maybe i could actually help them out here in korea.

some of the overseas animation is being done at rough draft korea, but they don't have any experience using flash, the software the series will be animated in. since my job at disney before was doing flash, they asked rdk if they'd be interested in having me help them get ramped up in their flash skills.

so i met with the rdk people, who have been very nice to me and are very enthusiastic about learning flash, a couple of weeks ago and decided that i'll do a two-hour class three days a week. so for the past three weeks on mondays, tuesdays, and thursdays i leave school at 3:00p and pretty much go straight to rough draft, which takes an hour to get to since it's on the other side of town. then i teach flash from 4:30p until 6:30p, and sometimes after that i eat dinner in the basement cafeteria they have there. so on those days i leave my house at 7:30a and don't get home until around 8:00p, which as you can imagine leaves me a little time for much else.

nikki, the president of the company, has been really nice to me and after i told her that i really love ��기 (gakdugi, radish kimchi), she hooked me up with some of her own.

to be honest it had a very strong taste that was good but perhaps a little too strong. i could tell that it was really healthy, but i think i enjoy something fermented maybe not as long.

this one is really delicious, when you eat it it's not that spicy, but in the next few minutes the spiciness hits you. she told me that that's a sign that the peppers are the best quality. i enjoyed it so much that recently she gave me a refill. while i had it in my bag on the crowded subway you could still smell it a little and i was wondering if people were bothered by it. well, i guess they would assume it was someone else since they'd probably be surprised if a foreigner had a big bag of kimchi in his bag.