The Future is Unclear

I called my father at about 5am local time (about 10pm SA time), and he said I should really reconsider taking the job working for the magazine.
I am reconsidering it. I have also a possible job lined up here, starting on April 1st. Thing is, I don't want to be a fool.

I have to say, after being here for just a few hours, it already feels like a few years. The streets are cold. I think it is extreme fatigue that makes one feel gloomy, and a place feel dreary, so need to give myself some time to adjust, and also to recover still from the Ironman. Can still feel the sunburn, ankle still hurts, still have a scab on my neck from the wetsuit.

After all that flying and crisscrossing the planet, it comes down to this. A door and a lot of bags on the floor.

Put A Sock In It

When Corneli arrived back, all her stuff had been packed into sacks and boxes and moved to another apartment in an adjacent building. Number 740.
So there was the mammoth task, awaiting us jetlaggers, to unpack all this stuff, plus the stuff we had with us.

Later in the evening, the girl who was substituting for Corneli, a pretty, picky (aka finicky) girl called Iris, called to complain about the school and shortly after that Corneli was told that instead of starting on Monday, as agreed, she would have to work the next morning because Iris had kicked up a fuss about something and said she wasn't going to work her scheduled last day.

As you can imagine, we were both exhausted, apartment is a mess, and not the nicest way to start the next day.
But, workerbee that she is, Corneli got up at the crack and did her shift. Oulik hey.

A little unpacking to do...

Korea is 7 hours ahead of South Africa. I can be reached on +82 31 911 7527 or +82 19 203 2771. I'm staying with Corneli until I get a contract and can move into my own place.

Do I look happy to be back? 4 hours sleep in about 2 days, and still wearing the same (now stinky) clothes. Heading towards customs here and hoping to get a 90 day visa. They only gave me 30 days, so hey, if things dont work out, I'll be back before you can say MAY.

I took this photo just after posting LOST IN HONG KONG. I did feel pretty lost and said to Crystal, maybe I should fly back. But I decided to haul myself over the last leg.

She's headed to a small village. Don't get too lonely.

Crystal (I think she spells it Krystel) checking her mail before catching a flight into Mainland China. She's a model from Zimbabwe, going for 6 months.

Just before landing in Hong Kong.

When you fly for a total of almost 17 hours, you get really far from where you started. It's a bit scary. Some might say one place is as good as another, but I'm not sure if that's true.