10 Days to go..........

I'm 10 days away from American exile and Kim Jung il had do start some drama. The story goes: We (America) say no other country can have nuclear weapons, Jung il brags about North Korea's nuclear capabilities and now Korea, my soon to be home, is filled with tension. Will Bush attack and jeapordize the South Koreans? I sure hope not. Reading this new development in the "axis of evil" (HA) should leave me uneasy, but it's not so. Growing up American, we learn very young that there is nothing to fear, at least nothing like an attack on our land. I remember the Persian Gulf war, lying in bed, looking up at my blank ceiling and fearing bombs and visualizing the kind of destruction we read about in history class. It wasn't long until I grew my invincible American armor and fell a victim to the US educational ethnocentric agenda. I'm looking outside these safety walls and looking forward to journeying above and beyond. Korea is ripe, and I'm anticipating a sense of emergency, a revitalizing anxiety. The only thing to do now is reconcile with my American life, and someway, somehow, gracefully say goodbye to everything I've ever known.......