New Blog! New Shoes! New Adventures next year!

I leave for South Korea in less than a week. I'll be over there for a year to teach English on a Fulbright scholarship. So this little ole Blog is how you can keep track of my adventures when I leave the states.

I'm in Hilton Head on vacation right now, staying with my family at our time share in Shipyard plantation. Unfortunately this week we have had more rain than any other time we've vacationed here. So not as much laying at the beach as I planned on. I've still been biking like crazy and had enough time to play both my younger brothers in tennis and discover something that's really not a surprise - I'm not the natural athlete I once was. Both of my younger brothers (ages 19 and 14, I'm 22) beat me handily. Well at least I know how to keep score now in a tennis game now.

With the rain I've been doing plenty of last minute shopping. I had been endlessly searching for a backpack with a special laptop padding section that was big enough, functional enough, and also didn't look like crap. Today I found it. Also, I smashed my previous sneaker buying record of 2 at once by purchasing 4(!) pairs of sneakers from the Reebok outlet. The funny thing is I probably won't take any to South Korea, so they'll sit in my closet for a while. But they were cheap - $90 for 4 pairs - I know how to shop; they look good - I found a sweet white, green, and yellow (W&M colors people) Allen Iverson bball shoe that I will be rocking at any sort of W&M homecoming or get together in the near future; and I bought a pair of G-unit shoes.

At this point, I would like to point out that most of friends and family would just shake their head and say something like, that Ben, he loves his stuff. What can I say, I'm picky about my shoes, unless it's something Army related (I'm going into active duty in the US Army after my Fulbright scholarship to South Korea), but that's a story for another day.