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Rural Maine Road Trip Gothic

Your phone is running out of charge, so you switch to the radio. Maybe you can find something to listen to. Country, over-played classic rock… static. Suddenly a preacher’s voice yells at you. Yes: YOU. You are going to hell, he says. Why would you sin? he says. You turn off the radio.

There is a sign for blueberries. It is hand-painted with dark blue paint.

You find a small local market. There is a man sitting at a table near the front. You ask the girl at the counter how to get to your destination. Ask Earl, she says. He knows everything. He’s always here, she says. Always has been. Always. He’s a Local, she says. You are not allowed to question the existence of Earl.

You ask Earl your question. He thinks long and hard. “Well…” Earl says. “Can’t get there from here…” You thank Earl and go on your way. You are not allowed to question Earl. Earl is a Local.

You take an exit. You are suddenly on an elaborate a rotary with big signs and four complicated exits. Why is there a rotary here? There are no towns for miles. You select you exit. There were no other cars. Why is there a rotary?

ANTIQUES AHEAD reads a signs, pointing to the right. You pull into the gravel parking lot. The building is falling down. No one has been there for years. The roof is caving in. ANTIQUES the sign insists. OPEN. You uneasily get back into your car.

You pass a sign for blueberries, hand-painted with dark blue paint.

You turn down a side road and know you are lost. The road is too narrow now for you to turn around. Suddenly, there is a set of large gates. There is a speaker at the gate. There are tall walls, stone lions, lush grass, impeccably-trimmed hedges. You can see a tree-lined drive through the gates. There is a mansion. “Do not enter” a sign warns. You do not know who lives there, or why. You do not want to know. You do not enter. You turn around and leave.

Your GPS says you are driving through a forest. “Make a U-turn” it tells you. Several minutes later it speaks again: “Make a U-turn”. You are suddenly shaken. What if the road does not actually exist? You turn off the GPS.

You decide to try the radio again, to distract yourself. You have for driven miles. The preacher station is probably out of range by now. You turn the radio on. “You will go to hell,” the pastor insists. You turn the radio off. “Make a U-turn” the GPS says.

You take an exit, and suddenly, there is a McDonalds and a Tim Hortons. They stand in solidarity together. The parking lots are full of shiny minivans. Inside, there are soccer moms, and teenage girls with too much makeup, and business men in suits who just want coffee. Where did they come from? There is nothing but fields and forest around. You have not passed a house in at least an hour.

There is a sign that says “Next Exit” with space below for business ads. There are no ads. There is nothing at the next exit.

You keep driving. What exit was that sign referring to? There is no exit for miles. There is nothing at the exit because the exit does not exist.

You find a gas station. They have Moxie. The man on the bottle wants YOU to drink Moxie. You do not partake of the Moxie. You feel the man on the bottle glaring at you. He wants YOU to drink moxie. You cannot shake the feeling of his stare.

You ask the man at the checkout how to get to your destination. He thinks, and begins giving you complicated instructions. Turn left at the diner, he says. It burned to the ground twenty years ago, he mentions. Just a field of weeds now. He used to meet his friends there. He would order eggs and pancakes. Turn left at the diner, he says. You’ll see it.

You pass a sign for blueberries, hand-painted with dark blue paint.

MOTEL a billboard reads. NEXT EXIT! You take the next exit. There is an empty field. You must turn left or right. You pick right, and drive for half an hour. There is no motel. There were no side roads. You drive back, and go the other way. You drive for even longer. There are no side roads. There is no motel.

You turn on the GPS again. It still says the road does not exist. “Turn left in 103 miles” it says.

You are back on the highway. You are desperate enough to listen to country. You turn the radio on. You will go to hell for what you have done, the preacher says. You tune the radio. Static, then another channel. Actions have consequences, the preacher says. You keep tuning. Listen to the WORD of the LORD, he yells at you. You are frantic now. You tune up and mercifully, there is static. You tune up some more, and hear a few bars of country music. You never thought you would be relieved to hear country music. They fade out. Jesus didn’t die for your sins, the preacher yells. Panic. You turn off the radio.

“Make a U-turn” the GPS says.

You pass a sign for blueberries, hand-painted with dark blue paint.

Suddenly, it hits you. You now realize what Earl had meant. You can’t get there from here. You will never get there from here.

#okay here you go

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It's been a while since I've had the courage to start one of these posts...

I'm going to try to cover everything major that happened since my last my post, but ill probably forget some things so I might edit this post after its up...

The first Busan trip and the DMZ-Trip

On Wednesday, the 7th of November, we got invited to an event in Busan, held by Rotary Korea, because the president of Rotary International was visiting Korea. We got told about this event far in advance and were supposed to have some sort of little act, that we could perform at the event.

We decided on a traditional Korean song, called Arirang. In addition to that we would perform "Imagine" by John Lennon and at the end, we would do the Macarena and try to integrate our audience a bit.

On the 7th I got up at 3 AM and packed the last things in my bag, took a shower and headed towards the bus station, together with my host mother. Rotary rented a travel bus, like they do for most events and trips we go on.

I arrived at the bus terminal at 6 AM and after everyone was picked up, we headed for our 5-hour bus drive to Busan.

Nothing really exciting happened in these 5 hours and we arrived at around 11 AM in Busan. We immediately went to the Hotel, in which the event would be held and we had to practice our act two more times. After that, we had a small break of around 20 minutes, before the event started. We all were still very tired from the long bus drive, but we did well in our performance and everything went well. We then took some Pictures with the president and basically got on the bus again, to get back to Seoul.

It took us until 9 PM, to find a place to have dinner, so we all were pretty mad, tired and just wanted to go to bed when we arrived back in Seoul at 12 PM I quickly took a shower and headed to bed.

The next morning I had a trip to the border to North Korea. The trip wasn't organized by rotary, instead, we went with our the people from our Korean language school. We met up at 9:40, and I thought I was too late, because I had misunderstood something the week before, so I ran through the rain and turned up 10 minutes too early.

1 hour later we all got on a bus and started our trip. I didn't have proper winter boots yet, so my socks were soaked in water and I was cold. At the border, we visited a museum about the Korean war and the separation between North and south Korea. They also had a piece of the Berlin wall and a counter, that was counting up the time, Korea had been separated, while a different counter showed the time, Germany had been separated.

The piece of the wall was standing on the train station, from where a train, that drives to Pyongyang. The whole stay at the border felt a bit surreal. Especially standing at the big Trainstation, with no people waiting for the train, knowing that, if you went through the effort to get all the papers, you could start a journey into North Korea, from here.

But also looking over the border and seeing the buildings and Northkorean flags felt strange. Before everything related to North Korea was only stuff you would see in the News. Seeing an actual house and knowing that there were people living that lived so cut off from the western world.

On the way back we noticed a lot of signs by the road, telling you to not go into the forests, because of landmines.

When we got back to Guri, where our Korean lessons were held, I went into a shop and immediately bought myself a pair of winter shoes.

Wedding

On the 11th my guest mother took me to the wedding of her niece.

I haven't really been on a wedding before, so its hard for me to compare it to anything I've seen in Germany, but there were some parts that I'm pretty sure aren't done in Germany.

The whole event was held in a so-called "Wedding tower", which was basically a bunch of wedding halls in a tower with a giant restaurant on the top floor.

When we arrived, everyone was just standing in front of the hall, talking to family and friends and was waiting for the wedding to start. The hall itself was a runway, over which the bride was later brought in, by her father, with tables standing around it, without any recognizable pattern.

The ceremony started with the bridegroom standing in front and the bride being brought down the aisle by her father. After they were all standing in front, the father sat down and the couple went in front of each others family, where the bridegroom did a pretty long bow and then they all hugged each other. Then the pastor came and married them. After that everyone, except for the closest family was leaving and went to the restaurant, where they had TVs, showing the following photoshoot in the hall. Everyone involved in the photoshoot had switched into traditional hanboks. After they were done the couple got lead around the restaurant and being introduced to each other's broader family. After we were finished eating we just went home.

Ancestral worship

On the 4th of December, shortly after I had switched families, my new guest mother took me to a relatives house, where they held a ceremony to worship her father, that apparently had died years earlier. When she told me about it I was a bit scared at first because I didn't want the first thing that I do with my family to be something about the death of a relative, but my host brother told me, that I didn't have to be worried.

When we arrived at the apartment, we had some snacks at first and then everyone started to prepare foods and build a shrine. Everything was made out of wood and the shrine consisted of a small table, a big one and a small shrine, in which they put a piece of paper, with the name of the person, that had died. It was written in Chinese, but it was more than two signs, so I think there was a little more than just his name, but I'm not sure.

The bigger table made up the main part of the whole thing and on it was the small shrine and all the foods. On the edges in the back of the table, there were two candles. The small table stood in front of the bigger table and on it was a small bowl with sand and some incense sticks in it. On the left of the small table, there was a pot with rice wine and a bowl.

The foods on the table had a special order, with the first row are the fruits, which are sorted by size, with the smallest on the left and the biggest on the right. In the second row were the backed foods and in the third row plates with fish and other dishes, that were too big for the rows. Finally, in front of the shrine, there were two soups.

When everything was set up they started with the ceremony. One person leads the ceremony, I’m guessing the biggest brother. The relatives walked up to the shrine one by one and they got a small bowl filled with rice wine, which they circled above the incense sticks three times, before they placed the wine on the big table, in front of the small shrine. Then they stood up and performed two of the long bows, not three, like in the temple.

When the next person came in front of the shrine, the leading person poured the wine that was still standing in front of the shrine in a bigger bowl.

After everyone was done performing the ritual, the leading person performed the ritual with the pot of rice wine. Then everyone stood in front of the shrine and the leading person knocked the chopsticks two times on the table and laid them on the different foods. When switching the foods he knocked the chopsticks on the table two times every time.

After that was done the banner with the name on it got burned in the candles.

Then everyone sat down in the living room and we ate the foods, that were previously on the shrine.

GGGI

On the seventh of December, we got invited to GGGI, which is short for Global Green Growth Institute. GGGI is an organization, which focuses on helping developing countries to build a green and sustainable economy. First, we listened to a few very interesting presentations, about what GGGI is doing and what it means to live sustainably.

Then we had a little workshop about living sustainable and while we were switching locations and getting a tour of the offices, we got to meet former UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon. We got to take a picture with him and talk for about 10 minutes.

After we were done with our tour in GGGI it was about 1 PM and we had the rest of the day for us in Seoul.

Christmas in Busan

On the 22nd of December, we traveled to Busan, to celebrate Christmas there. We didn't instantly drive to Busan, we had one day in Gyeongju, a city with a major historical background for Korea. In Gyeongju, we visited a theatre and watched a show about some of the history in Gyeongju. It was fun, but nothing special. Then we went to the national museum and looked at some very old Korean stuff. It was nice, but again, I don't know enough about Korean history to really appreciate the importance of most of the things that we get to see in museums like these, or temples. On the next day, we drove to Busan and went to a shrine for traffic safety, a water temple, the beach in Busan, a Korean movie museum and an international market. It was a very full day, but probably one of my favorite days in Korea. We got to see a lot of Busan, which is very different from Seoul, due to the see being so close and the buildings not standing so tall and close to each other, but that might have just been my perception. The shrine for traffic safety was really weird because everything looked very traditional and then you just had a stone tire with some Korean text on it.

Everything around the shrine was also very traditional and it functioned as an entrance to the water temple. It was definitely my favorite temple so far. It was standing beside a cliff and everything around it just seemed very fitting.

The beach in Busan was also very nice, because before that I hadn't been to the beach in Busan, but it was also very weird because we had Christmas trees behind us while drinking coffee at the beach with not a single cloud at the sky.

It was a bit surreal and didn't feel Christmassy at all. The movie museum was really interesting because it had some very cool interactive parts in it and it wasn't only focused on Korean films. The international market was also cool, but we didn't buy anything. In the evening we did a small Christmas party, where we gave presents to each other and all got two from HoHyun. The evening was nice, but nothing like a normal Christmas. I enjoyed it nevertheless.

On the next day, we went to Dongbaek island, where we took a walk and saw a house, in which a big Asian Pacific trade treaty got signed in 2005. It's now a museum so we could look around a bit, which was nice.

After we were done with that we went to a so-called “skywalk”, which was basically a glass pier over a cliff. It wasn't as spectacular, as I had hoped, but the surrounding nature was very nice and we had a good time, before going back into the bus, for our six-hour drive back to Seoul.

On our way back, we had a problem with the engine-fan, and at first, we thought that we might have to go to a nearby hotel, to sleep there, but luckily it wasn't that big of a deal and we could drive all the way to Seoul, without any major inconvenience.

I think the Busan trip was my favorite so far because we got to know a lot of new exchange students from the area around Busan, that joined our multidistrict due to some (mildly put) complications inside Rotary. But I also just really liked the atmosphere in Busan and I'm definitely planning on coming back there and hopefully stay a bit longer than just 1 and a half days…

Jeju trip

From the 31.12.18 to the 4.1.19 my host family took me on a trip to Jeju, the biggest Island of Korea, which lays south of Korea. We took the plane, from a domestic airport and were in Jeju after about one hour. We went to so many places in Jeju, that I, unfortunately, can't recall the order and I might even forget some.

We rented a car and over the five days, we visited a tea-museum, an aeronautics museum, a folk village, Halla mountain, but we didn't go completely to the top, another volcano, a part of the shore, with some pretty cool volcano tunnels and a botanic garden.

I don't remember the order at all, so I'm just going to say a little bit about everything, in no particular order.

The tea-museum was very interesting and it showcased the history of tea in Korea and also all around the world. I found a lot of teapots from Dresden, for example. Inside the museum was also a big area, where tea and many other tea-related things got sold. We ate some Green tea-icecream, which tasted nice, but I don't think id eat it regularly. I also thought about buying some tea, but it was very expensive, so I decided not to. Especially because I might visit it again, with Rotary. All around the museum were a lot of fields, full of green tea and there was a platform, from which we could see over the while area.

On the same day, we visited the aeronautics-museum, which I really enjoyed, even though I knew most of the stuff, that was in the museum, already. It was still very cool, to see an Asian perspective on the history of space exploration because as it turns out, that is a very different one from the western. Especially because in Asia you have a whole bunch of different zodiac signs.

The folk village was also interesting, but it felt more like going through a park, instead of actually getting to know anything specific about the way natives used to live in Korea. You could see single things, for example, the houses were way smaller in hight than I ever saw it in Germany, but that was probably to be expected.

We didn't really go to the top of Halla mountain, as far as I understood, instead we went to a slightly smaller mountain, right beside Halla mountain. We were at about 1200 m over sea level and it snow was laying everywhere.

I had a few problems with the pressure on my ears, but in the end, it turned out to be okay. Going through snow and being at the beach on the same day was interesting but also didn't help in remembering what happened on what day.

I don't know exactly why, but I really enjoyed the botanic garden. It was very empty and calm. Sadly we kinda hurried through it, so I couldn't really look at everything. It was still very nice and I’ll try to visit more botanic gardens in the future for sure.

We also went on a little hike up a smaller volcano. It was very impressive to stand in front of the crater. There is not really a lot happening in the crater of an inactive volcano but it was still weird to imagine that right in front of you, where you now just have grass and flowers, lava used to come out of the earth. It was my first time visiting a volcano crater and I was really impressed.

The last thing I remember, that we did, was visiting a part of the shore where the imperial army of Japan used to have camps in the volcanic tunnels. It was cool walking through those big weird shapes and along the weirdly shaped shore, but unfortunately, it was also very windy.

All in all, I really enjoyed the trip to Jeju and I'm very glad that my host family took me with them. We didn't have any kind of new years celebration, but I also didn't expect something, so I was okay with that. I generally try to not expect celebrations and so far that has worked out very good for me, so I’ll keep that up.

The DMZ and snowboarding trip

From the 12.01 to the 14.01 our Rotary group of exchange students went on a trip to the DMZ, but we didn't go to the same part of the border, where I’d already been. Instead, we went to the section on the eastern coast of Korea. There we had way better vision into North Korean territory. We went to a museum, that showcased the whole history of the Korean war and, interestingly, also had a passage about the division of east and west Germany, again, with a piece of the Berlin wall. We had good weather, which was nice, so we could actually see something from North Korea. Probably because of the good weather it didn't seem as intimidating this time, to look into North Korea. Even though we were closer to the border than before. It looked like a 15 minutes walk. But apart from one single building, you couldn't really see anything North Korean, which made it hard to see where the actual border was.

The mountain, that you can see in the back is in North Korea. The border is about halfway there.

After we were done with that we headed to a cable car, which took us up a very high mountain, from which we had a pretty decent view of Seoraksan, one of the highest mountains in Korea.

Then we drove back down, got on the bus and drove to the ski resort.

In the ski resort, we had two suites for the boys and each suite had two beds. Simon and I just took the beds in our suite.

When we first got our equipment we weren't allowed to go and do our own thing instantly, first we had a little course, but it was only about 10 minutes long and we only got told how to fall properly and then we got sent out, down the least steep slope. The first day was really frustrating to me. Not because I couldn't balance on the board, that was not the problem, but because I didn't know how to change directions or break. So the first day I just went down the slope and fell, to break. After, what felt like a few hours, but probably wasn't that long we went to a different slope and started using our snowboards as sleds. That was really fun, but at the end of the day, it still bothered me that I hadn't figured out how to properly snowboard.

Then we went to a waterpark, which was also fun, but also a bit weird because everyone had to wear life jackets. The next day we went back on the slopes for three or four hours and I figured out braking and steering with some help from Linnea, a Swedish exchange student, who had done some snowboarding before.

Since we had checked out of our suits before going to the slopes we went straight on the bus after we were done with snowboarding and skiing. On our way back the mood was a bit down because we had a lot of air pollution which was something I hadn't seen in Seoul or at least, not been aware of. It was a little scary because as the air in the bus started to get worse, we wanted to open up the windows of the bus, but you could literally see the pollution outside, so opening up the windows wouldn't really solve our problem. It really was a little scary, because I had grown up with fresh air around me all the time. Not having access to fresh air is really something you need to get used to. In addition to that three of the Americans were leaving us, due to personal issues/ issues with Rotary in their home country. That was also kind of sad, but I tried to just sleep as much as possible.

To sum up that trip I'd say that it was definitely fun, but also physically strenuous. Especially because the following week was full of events and another trip, about which I won't write anything, because really nothing happened there. But yeah… That trip was kind of the beginning of 10 days of continuous tiredness.

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25 quirky holiday gifts for all the non-boring people on your list

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