Contract

-Daejeon it is. The contract came today. Well, not straight to me. I did receive an e-mail with some sort of attachment, but it was in Korean…I don’t read Korean. We went down to the recruiting office and confirmed what the vacation periods were, signed the contracts and they were off, Fed Exed to the other side of the world. In about twenty days or so, we’ll be off to the other side of the world. So now comes the part where I become busy, packing away my things here, getting vaccinated and making all last preparations. So this may very well be my last week as a substitute. Not bad at all, this happens to be one of the easist weeks I’ve had in the Pasadena Unified.
I was reading about runaway productions today and the campaign against Cold Mountain. I wonder if I’ll see any on location filming in Daejeon, I mean ofcourse, American productions which are so common here. If I don’t, will I miss seeing the big trucks and the dozens of people just standing around? A year away. It’s interesting, the feeling that permeates now. I never went off to any summer camps or semesters abroad, I never really travelled much, except for that one summer vacation to Cancun and Merida, so I’m setting myself up for a completely different experience. And it’s really quite interesting, to think of how my parents came to this country so that I wouldn’t have to go through that struggle, and here I am expatriating for a year, not a struggle but possibly an adventure. I never had those types of adventures as a child. I think I missed them. Even now sometimes I’ll choose the path of most resistence in certain things to try and live the adventures I missed as a kid.
Perhaps, that is part of the impetus to being a filmmaker, to live in the imagination. Time is the only one to tell if this will actually add to the burning flame inside my filmmakers heart. I suspect it will.