Oh Shit...

Today the BBC reported that the S. Korean ship that sank in march was most likely (it has been agreed on) sunk by a N. Korean torpedo. The South and the UN are now trying to come up with a reasonable response. They cannot (and will not) let this attack go un-noticed. However, the South will do everything it can to prevent a war because it will not only cripple their economy, but most likely they will suffer major damage to the capitol Seoul, and my future home.

As of now my plans have not changed. I do not intend to change them unless the state department or my study abroad advisors (GlobalLinks) advises me not to go. The best thing, I think, for me to do is carry on as planned. I know that the US government has a plan in place to get US citizens out of S. Korea in the (unlikely) event of a N. Korean attack. I'm not too worried, although a little bit concerned.

For now, click the title of this post (Oh Shit...) to read the BBC article.

Housing Drama

$1200 / 2br - Furnished Two Bedroom For Sublet (Chelsea) That is the listing on Craigslist that I responded to for a nice looking apartment in Manhattan. The owner was a man named Wayne who said he was living in the UK for the next 6 years, and his place was available. At first he sounded very legit and reasonable. The more we talked (over email) the more I became a little worried by him. Finally he sent a sublet agreement form, and it was just typed into the email. Myself and my future flat-mate were very worried about him by this point. We googled the apartment building and called the number that we found. The guy at the office that I talked to knew right away that it was a scam. All I had to say was the number "27K", and he said, "Yeah buddy, its a scam". Apparently five people had already called with the same question. I gave him all the information I had about "Wayne" and his fraudulent Craigslist listing. I was very happy that we had not given "Wayne" any personal information, and we escaped that encounter with nothing more then a little more caution (along with all our money). WHEW!

Almost the beggining

Over the next 7 months I will be traveling to two of the biggest cities in the world; New York City, USA and Seoul, South Korea. In NYC I will be an intern at Duart. Duart does post-production film and video. I will be working with Carmen Borgia, the head of their sound department. I expect I will be assisting him with projects and what not related to sound for video and film. He asked me the other day if I knew how to use Final Cut Pro (I DO!) which is a video editing software. I really hope I get to work with that to some degree. I will know all of this when I start at DuArt on June 1st!

My schedule for these cities is this: I will be in NYC from June 1st until August 11th. I will go home to the midwest for a week, then fly out to Seoul on August 18th. I will be there attending Korea University as an international student for all of the fall semester until the end of December.

More info, pictures, video, audio, tales, lessons and fun times to come!