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there’s a bit of a story behind this photo. my students and i went for coffee on friday. we decided to go to dunkin donuts, enjoy some coffee and talk. while there, i drank my coffee and under the lid was a prize token. the prize was for a small trash can which looks like a dunkin donuts coffee cup. we had some fun with the trash can, taking pictures and pretending it was a real coffee cup.

i had a weird weekend. friday night was my late night, so i taught until 9.40pm. after class i went with one of my students to yoido for some night photography. we camped under a bridge and got some great shots. we were there for nearly 3 hours and headed off at after 1am. i could feel that my student wanted to go drink beer after, but i was too tired. however, i’ve promised him we’ll head out again another night and definitely have some cervezas next time.

saturday morning i woke up, turned on my computer and fried the motherboard. i spent the whole day getting my computer fixed. fortunately the old guy up the road (who ran the computer store) was very nice and friendly. they replaced the motherboard and tweaked my system to improve it a little. i finally got home at 6pm with my computer and spent the evening putting stuff back together and watching movies.

sunday morning the craziness began. i moved a bunch of sites and have been doing database and dns editing all day. i took a break in the afternoon, then did some more web work, now i’m editing a few photos before i go to bed.

i still have a few sites to move, but i don’t know when i’ll get to it … and my computer isn’t recognising my two external hard drives. so i’m going to have to figure out how to make them play nice, so i can back up my photos and music.

i only have a limited number of weekends left while i’m in korea … so i gotta do as much as i can. this week i’ll photograph a bunch of things that i want to sell. hopefully next weekend i can offload some stuff i don’t need.

tuesday turned into a well earned day off. my schedule worked out very nicely and afforded me the ability to rearrange my classes and take a day off from work. i slept in on tuesday morning then met a student of mine at lunch time. my student, garam, wanted to spend a day doing some photography, so we went to the park and walked around. i didn’t get many good shots, but we had fun photographing things and i taught her about useful photography techniques. i took both my cameras and had a lot of fun photographing with the nikon and the leica … we had kfc for lunch, walked around the park some more, then headed back home.

it turned out to be a really nice day, despite the fact that it was quite hot. i also got a hair cut and paid my credit card bill … the credit card bill wasn’t big, but it’s handy having the convenience of using a card, especially online.

however the day off yesterday really made this week go fast. it’s wednesday already, but feels like monday. just two more days until the weekend … it’s sad that i spend so much of my time counting down!

had myself a good day. taught this morning until 10.30 and had a free lunch, courtesy of my school. i went home, checked email and then headed off to coex for a look around. i decided that my satchel bag wasn’t really cutting it, so i reckoned on buying another bag. i stopped into the adidas store and saw a bag that was just right. i bought it and headed to the office.

after work i picked up my roll of b&w film from the processing store. i am quite happy with the shots, even though this roll of film was much more difficult to use. the higher iso really makes a difference and highlights are blown in a few shots. it’s definitely not very forgiving. however, i got some good shots out of it, so i’m still pleased. the best part is that i had the photos scanned at the processing store, so the scans are much better quality (and also a little scratchy from being handled after printing). i’m still quite pleased though.

tonight i had a final lesson with my one on one student. other committments have meant that she’s not able to continue her lessons. so we went to outback steakhouse for a farewell dinner. i only ordered the aussie cheese chips and a beer, but i’m full as hell … i’m really looking forward to getting to bed.

i’ve just spent the last half hour editing shots, which i’ll post now.