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I went back to the hospital today. I was expecting to hear that my platelet count was low, I was fearing that if it was low I'd have to stay there for a while for treatment. It turns out that I had nothing to worry about. Everything was normal. The doctor doubled my dosage, but now I only take it every other day. Progress!

As part of my journey home from the hospital I was waiting for a bus downtown. While waiting, a guy in his 50s stepped out from the building he works in to have a smoke, and started to chat me up. He spoke no English, and asked if I spoke Korean. I told him I could speak a little bit. He asked where I was from and if I liked Korea. I told him America and yes. He asked me what Korean companies were popular in America. I told him Samsung, Kia, and Hyundai. I told him my mom drives a Hyundai. He gave me a high five. It was really riveting stuff.

Then he asked me about Japan. I said they were good, too. He disagreed. He proceeded to say a lot of things that I couldn't really understand, but the message was clearly that Korea is better than Japan. I think at one point he was trying to explain to me that Japanese men have tiny dicks. Kinda kicking them while they're down, don't you think?

Soon enough my bus arrived. I shook his hand and said goodbye.

Tonight I had a one on one class. It's just one kid and me. I had a class like this last year and it was great because the kid was a baseball fan and I converted him into a Phillies fan. The kid I teach now isn't nearly as cool, in fact he's a huge nerd. But, his English is very good, so I pretty much just have to talk with him for 50 minutes. 

Tonight's topic of discussion was global warming. I asked him if global warming was a big issue in Korea. He said yes. I asked him why. His answer was one hell of an answer. He said, and this is what he's been told by his teachers, that if the polar ice caps melt, ocean levels will rise and Japan will be underwater. Now, it wasn't the fact that Japan and its 125 million occupants would be underwater which was the cause for concern, but rather that if Japan was underwater, there would be nothing there to protect Korea from tsunamis. I had him clarify that if Japan were underwater, the main problem would be that there's no buffer from tsunamis. He said, matter of factly, yes. 

So: Japan is a land whose sole purpose is to absorb tsunamis and is inhabited by men with small penises.