I spent a week with Mike the Shaky on Koh Phangan, a small island off the east coast of Thailand, camping on the beach for $2/day and basically doing nothing but work on a translation project for the Korean Literature Translation Institute. It's a contest for new translators, whereby the contestants must translate a particular Korean short story into English. The winner gets about $5,000, and future translation opportunities. Keep your fingers crossed for me, and look at these pretty pictures of my campsite and the vicinity:
