October was relatively quiet in that it was mostly the day to day pattern that I had created of my life. Teaching my students with all my heart (with a very special moment where I got to talk at an international school about animal rescue), taking care of my own rescues (and JARC), checking out new places and hiking. Sometimes on my own and sometimes with the Hash, though I was over that considering that I had been made the group nanny against my will.
While it was a chill month, the little things continued to mean everything. Hanging in my neighborhood version if a beautiful palapa, being reminded of what a fascinating contrast there was between the generations of Jeju when seeing as an old man climbing up a wall to get to his gardening, hitting beaches and cafes I liked and checking out the art walls common on Jeju.
There was a couple museums that I finally got around to checking out. The Teddy Bear museum was a pleasant surprise in that there was creepy displays, big ones, unique and interesting ones, and a lot that reenacted events, art and more. The Sex Museum was boring in that I couldn’t read anything since it was in Korean but pretty cool in that it seemed informative and sex-positive. Of the events I went on, a submarine may have been the coolest and of the new foodie spots, the food truck circled around a picnic area that I had been wanting to go to for so long. So fun, though I got sick later from the huge turkey leg I ate.
There were only two hiccups for the month. The first was clearing my place of my dumped partner. The second being when, always a hot mess, my shoulder randomly started hurting badly. Something I was suspected was because of so many puppies yanking on it when walking, it ended up being calcific tendonitis. Not to worry, though, it mysteriously went a way a few weeks later despite the doctor saying it would take a long time of physical therapy to get better.
Life continued being great. And to be the happiest I had been in my entire life. While living all around the world, I wanted this forever.
