Dane and I, two chemical engineering students at UF, were sent to South Korea for two months.
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Saturday, August 12, 2006

Here are the rest:

What's promised becomes debt, or so goes a Guatemalan saying; hence, it is time to pay mine. These are the rest of the lab members:

Sung-heon is the lab's heung (or older brother); he's the one that gets stuck with the most work in the lab, which at times can mean that he gets to play two more hours of quake than everyone else, or at times it means he must stay an entire week sleeping in the lab in order to meet the deadlines. He's also the one that lends me the headphones in order to use Skype and call Katie in the US, my sisters in Guatemala, and my friend Jorge in Sweden. Sung-heon, meet the blogger world, blogger world, meet Sung-heon:

Sang-heon (similar but not the same) will soon be heading to USC in California. There is not much to say about this individual, only that he's nice and has high expectations of the US; I guess, at some given point in our lives, we all do:

VU, as in voodoo! He's Wen's brother (you know, the guy we got drunk and crazy with Dane on our trip to Geoungju). I don't interact much with him, mainly because he's not invited to most lunches and dinners. He's treated as a second-class researcher her in the lab (because he's not Korean but Vietnamese). Despite that, however, I think he's a good person, and he deserves to be known to those of you who read these words:

Meet Shams, Dane's nemesis here in Korea; this is the guy that makes him read his 40 pg. + papers for grammatical corrections; he made me do that once, but I gave him a little bit of Guatemalan attitude, and I guess he got the point, because I have never been asked again. Like Vu, he is also discriminated from time to time...never mind, make that all the time! He speaks funny, but perhaps is the only guy in the lab that gets some actual work done. See him for yourself, he looks like a laborer:

Also, this other guy, but I forget his name...I just asked and it is Gi-Sing (or something similar). About him, I can only say that I am certain this must be the Korean that looks the most like butthead; I have placed here some pictures so you can decide for yourselves; I've also added a video just to make sure you get as many agles from this dude before you decide that I am wrong.




Finally, there's MK (Korean name, also unknown). He didn't come today to the lab, so I was unable to take a picture of him, but there is really not much to say about him only that he plays some mean starcraft, and defeated my neophyte ass at the second minute of playing against him; you are still my brother MK!

I'll post his pic later, when I also introduce the undergraduate gang. As for now, I leave you with yet another moment of unending labor:

Success...