Esteban Mendieta Jara - Blog

At last the weather has begun to change in Seoul from this week and the temperature reaches 18 degrees, until last week when the temperature was -6 degrees. Although in previous weeks and the weather was improving enough last week was a tremendous change as we again began to feel the cold of winter.

So last week a friend told me that this is the week of "revenge" and said there tell me that, I said what happens is that in Korea there is the belief that when the weather is definitely about to change from winter to spring, winter sends us a week quite cold but the envy of the arrival of spring, and so sent us this week for revenge.

Well let me tell you it is true, last week was bitterly cold when we are warm now, and already beginning to open all windows to air, to the point that I turn the air conditioning, hehe.

So good, we begin the spring and that also means that only a few months and coming home, really fast time passes.

Now if I have the pride to say I am a "Marathon Runner".

Today for the first time I participated in a Marathon and I'm done, I took 4h14m22s to finish the 42,195 KM which is part of this competition.

I feel very happy, and as I always say, nothing is impossible.

Well are 4:45 am on Sunday November 2nd, and my alarm up to me to tell me that the time has come.

During the last two hours has been difficult to sleep, has been hot, and I also started to get concerned and think of everything.

I've eaten some fruit and I have started to hear some music to relax a little, in this way time flies, I have to be at 6:00 am on a cafería to meet Andy Klein, a friend I met in the University and was also preparing for a competition in your country. He is dedicated to the powers of adventure was about to not participate this week because she took a bad flu.

Well it's time to get into the shower.

It is now 6:04 a.m., time to go out into the taxi, we have to meet with other people at 6:50 am, so I expected a little road trip.

Time to get out, and it's time to have fun!

Good long-awaited day finally comes, just 2 days left for the realization of the JoongAng Seoul Marathon for which I have been preparing well for all these months.

Actually I am excited and nervous at the same time, be the first time will participate in a competition like this, so many nerves there and I just know that I am physically and mentally prepared to do, period.

It's been a long road to get to the Marathon, I did not think it would be so hard that at times made me want to stop and it is all there, but I feel that everything was worth it so far.

Many do not know the long hours between studies and to go out and train in the morning, afternoon or evening, the early mornings on weekends to go running on the outskirts of Seoul, and thus has been a sacrifice but I'm happy.

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Well as many already know, apart from studying, I also am preparing to participate for the first time in Marathon (42.195 km), the marathon is that I will participate in the JoongAng Seoul Marathon , the second largest in Seoul.

Each week the workouts become harder and longer, especially on Sundays are the days of long runs.

This last Sunday, I had to run 36K, the truth was a difficult test, had been run up to 28K in previous weeks but the 36K were long and endless.

So I got ready in the morning to go jogging, I grabbed my backpack with drinks and gels necessary, ipod, sunglasses, etc. I took a taxi and get to park next to the World Cup Stadium for the great workout.

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Well it is a win football or something, is just the answer you give when they ask me Age? 3-0 years will answer.

Three decades of my life, wow have been passed in the blink of an eye, but at the same time there have been many but so many things, good and bad, one or another evil thing I have done, but I say get a summary, fuck 30 years well spent! I'm not complaining.

The other day I read the post I wrote while serving 29 years , the truth, I never would have imagined that my 30s those held in Seoul, but it's interesting that you read this remember that the most important birthday of life, I have held out home.

My 18's celebrated in Quito, a few weeks of having arrived , my 21 in New York during a stint with the Yankees, the 25 in Quito again, and now 30 in Seoul.

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The day I went to Yongsan Electronic Market spinning saw BOOBIES passing the word on a screen.

I was wondering if I saw it right or wrong, until I realized it was true, the new LG plasma TV is called Xcanvas BoBos , and that's how I promocioban in all screens.

With that name does not enter the American market, we see that change.

Arriving in Korea seemed natural that I ask in medical examinations and in some papers my blood type, but then gradually it seemed a bit strange that most times I keep asking.

In one class of books on Korean history, talk a lot about the importance of blood type to the Koreans, the mixtures had during times of war and who lived with Japanese colony.

But I found it strange that when we went to U-Park to go in there gave us a card and asked us to ask our data on blood type.

Since the passage of days, I learned that the Koreans have enough meaning that blood type you are, to the point that defines your personality believe, for which the Yonsei University did a study and with results interesting.

In the case of U-Park the idea is that as you know that kind of personality you have (in theory) create a profile for you according to your taste during the visit.

I have asked several people their blood type and the truth in many cases coincided, mine is O, you think defines me as I am?

Now try you, you find the information . Available in Spanish as well.

My family knows I love food with banana : banana chips, banana tortilla, mature cheese , etc..

The other day I thought that nobody here has seen bananas, oritos, green, repeat, and just yesterday walking through Itaewon , I find the sale of bananas in a corner.

The place was a person in Africa, is that there also are known as " plantains "I was mad, not only because they sell here, but for the price equivalent to 2000 w 2 USD, gosh buy a $ 2 slice bananas in Ecuador.

So I buy, I'm waiting to mature a bit more to make me some fried bananas and because some tortillas, and now I can I sell tortillas on the streets of Itaewon .

The other day I try to do something similar with some bananas I had on hand, but the fry were made ​​soup, I almost burned up, left for dessert in the end.

If you've been in the United Estates, the jony, just in New York, you know that there are several places where people from other countries come together, as in the case of Little Italy for Italians, China Town for Chinese, Flushing for Ecuadorians and the Roosevelt for all Latinos

In the Roosevelt can find everything you need in your country, in the case of the Ecuadorian male soap, Quaker Oats, Zhumir, Chicken Gus, manicho, including one million more.

Well here in Seoul, there is also a similar place called Itaewon . Here people of all countries to attend, you can find food from different countries, food, cell phones and feel a little closer to home. The stores are more focused on foreigners and everyone speaks English, which does not happen in the other businesses in Seoul.

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