/blog/2006/09/unfulfilled-expectations/ But I fear more for Muninn... Thu, 16 May 2013 14:30:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.2 /blog/2006/09/unfulfilled-expectations/comment-page-1/#comment-29697 Mon, 01 Jan 2007 08:40:25 +0000 http://muninn.net/blog/2006/09/unfulfilled-expectations.html#comment-29697 […] After finishing level four of the language program at SNU, I continued my travels in what would be my 2nd “around-the-world” flying trip. I buy cheap student discount tickets from STA Travel and get all one-way tickets that took me from Boston to Japan, to Korea, to Germany, then Norway, two days in Iceland, and back to Boston. I did a similar trip in the summer of 2005, stopping for a night and visiting a friend in London on my way to Norway. This summer I stopped in Darmstadt, Germany near Frankfurt and spent a few wonderful days visiting a friend there. I also really enjoyed walking around the town and surrounding countryside and just generally fell in love with Germany. I then went on and returned to my hometown Stavanger, by which time I was completely broke. I was low on summer funding while in Korea as well but managed to pay the last of my living expenses there by doing a little Japanese-English translation on the side. To pay for groceries back in my hometown of Stavanger, Norway where I stay in my mother’s vacant apartment, I ended up teaching a Japanese class for almost four weeks to an enthusiastic group of almost a dozen Norwegians who ranged from junior high school students, recent high school graduates to career professionals. It was a great experience and I would gladly do it again if I get a chance to. While back in Stavanger, I biked around, got lots of sleep, and read a lot. I posted a few things here at Muninn from my time back home (1,2,3,4,5). […]

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