I've always been an 'inbetweener'. Never quite fitting into a particular peer group at school; dating the 'cool' boys at university - but never really being in with the cool crowd. That's the way I like it. Doing my own thing is what I value most: I hate feeling like I have to conform to the expectations of others.
Being pigeonholed is something I've fought against for so long...I therefore really struggle to understand why I hate the way I am treat in Korea. Granted, I am a foreigner in a country of xenophobes, but it really irks me that my opinions don't count in the office; that people will not sit near me on the subway; that I am treat like a second rate citizen, or worse - a ghost. I shouldn't care right? I am after all, an inbetweener...so why is it that I feel like a black sheep?
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