A simple transaction.

If I had to sum up my experiences in Korea thus far, based only on my experiences tonight, here's how I would do it:

My movie experience was a highlight, much like my getting off the flight and the whirlwind month or two I spent drinking away my weekends with my new friends. A tremendously good time.

Directly after, I went for some fried chicken at a local place, and got a successful order expressed in Korean. It wasn't elegant, but I got my message across somehow. I was learning the basic things, but not knowing much else, only enough to survive on my own, basically like the next few months of my stay after the fun died down.

After I got home, I realized I didn't have a bottle opener for the non-twist cap on my Coke. Damn. I've got it sitting in my hand yet I wasn't going to get to enjoy it. Much like my life now, where this entire country is in front of me, waiting to be explored, yet I stumble over details like not knowing how to do things. What will the outcome be?

I looked for a bottle opener, but without one in sight I actually just tried to snap/flick the cap off on the railing outside my room, and ended up breaking the top of the bottle in my hand. Brute force is dangerous when you can't solve a problem the correct way sometimes, clearly. There is a lesson to be learned for sure there.

As I sat down to write my post, I spotted the bottle opener, sitting there. Irony or another lesson? We shall see.