Summer Vacation

Summer vacation started with a night in a hotel in Busan, south of the train station where I saw some hookers get hustled into a waiting car. The street seemed much more innocent the next morning when I caught a pre-dawn taxi to the airport. Twenty-something hours later Ben was waiting for me in the baggage claim at Logan and Paul and Maury showed up about five minutes later. We met Adam and Chad at a house party outside of Boston, and I couldn't imagine a better way to start off a visit home than hanging out, as a single group for the first time in god knows how long, with my five best high school homies, most of whom just happened to be in town visiting on plans unrelated to my vacation.



The next day, I got home to see my parents and my brother, also visiting from out of town, and I got to spend the week with my family, the four of us not having been all together in Exeter also for god knows how long.



The first week I spent mostly with my family and Andy's girlfriend Allie, playing mini golf, running with Andy who finally started to exercise for once in his life, getting up into northern NH for Big Dave's wedding, going for a boat ride down the Squamscott into Great Bay, and eating American food unobtainable in Korea including, but not limited to: homemade baked mac and cheese, lasagna, homemade and deli-made sandwiches, decent pizza, strawberry-rhubarb pie, Cuban sandwiches, and barbeque.



The second week included an epic party at Alissa's farm house in scenic Kensington which featured a cornhole (game) driven all nighter and was capped off with probably the most beautiful morning I have ever seen as the darkness cleared and the mist began to rise from the marshland behind the house, two trips to the beach with two beautiful women, tennis, and visits with Ed, Scott, Lee and Stacy and their newborn Ava, swimming in the Lamprey, minor league baseball in Manchester, and was capped off by a visit from my Utah homies and newlyweds Mark and Annie who drove down from their new home in Burlington.



Summer vacation ended with me packing my entire apartment onto the back of a truck with a bed not much larger than a Ranger's, unloading the bed, fridge, washing machine, table, chairs, etc. at my old school, and dragging the remaining items belonging to me into my new apartment downtown, and then spending hours cleaning the ever living shit out of my new place before I could unpack. That took two days. Summer vacation ended on a Tuesday morning, September the 1st, when I went back to work at my new school Samdeok Elementary School.