The Christmas Season

In America, Christmas comes in with a bang. There is a Thursday of gorging on turkey and cranberry sauce, then the Christmas Season arrives. Christmas decorations go up, radio stations change their playlists, and there is a little thing known as Black Friday.

Korea's harvest festival was back in September. It was certainly too early to kick off the Christmas Season then. However, we've had our first officially cold day. The stores have decorations up. And I've eaten what passes for a Thanksgiving dinner here. So, today I updated my Christmas playlist in iTunes and brought out my cinnamon spice candle. I'll hopefully pick up a proper Christmas tree tomorrow and bring some holiday cheer to my apartment.

As I was sorting through my music to make the Christmas 2011 playlist, I came across this song that was on the Christmas 2010 playlist.

Straight No Chaser is a great musical group to start with. I really enjoy both of their Christmas albums. But this song. It is all about someone who is in a big city, surrounded by thousands of people, missing Christmas in Indiana. ::sigh:: I admit, after I listened to this song for the first time, I checked out some ticket prices to see if I could arrange my own Indiana Christmas this year. Alas, it just won't work out. Also, I have a fairly short window of time for a trans-pacific journey before I have to start work again. So, it will be a Seoul Christmas for me again this year. But enjoy the song, and for those of you in Indiana, know that I'm thinking of you!