Later today I will be saying goodbye to my mom and driving back down to Cairns. I fly to Brisbane tonight, where I will have an overnight layover and fly back to Seoul tomorrow.
I have had a good visit with my mom, although I have probably been less useful than I might have been. It's easy to get a bit lazy when on vacation. I read some books, anyway. I am also taking some books with me – a bit of a random selection from my mom's library, I suppose. There are these old books on Latin/Greek philosophy, probably from her college days, and a some poetry or such. I always end up taking some books when I visit. These books are well-travelled, anyway, given they were all originally acquired in North America, have spent a few decades in Queensland, and are now off to Korea.
I'll be back in Seoul on Friday – originally I was slated to work on Saturday, but I think I don't have to, because of the naesin (test-prep) schedule for the middle-schoolers. So I'll have a nice 3-day weekend to "recover" from my vacation.
More later.
[daily log: walking, 2km]