“Preparing” To Move (8/22/11)

Catching up with friends from Mexico, Italy and California these past few days in Chicago was a blast! Now that I’m on the bus on the way back to Cleveland, though, I’m forced to actually start thinking about my move to Korea. I still haven’t started packing (even though my flight leaves in less than 36 hours) and I know that I won’t do it tonight either because I’ll be busy spending time with friends and family. Whatever…if you ask me, packing is what the last few hours in any given country are for.

When I try to picture my life in Korea, nothing very specific comes to mind. I know I’ll be learning a lot and having fun, but I have no idea how anything will look or sound and I don’t know for sure how I’ll feel about being there. I expect it to all be different than everything I’ve ever experienced before, but I don’t really know how. I don’t ever waste my time trying to plan things ahead of time, but I do have a general idea of things I want to learn about this year: the language (I currently don’t even know how to say “hello”), taekwondo (as well as of all other aspects of the Korean culture…which I also currently know nothing about), and how to cook their food (because I have to eat something while I'm there). I don’t plan to perfect any of it but I want to learn as much as I can. I also, of course, plan to continue traveling to new places, dancing salsa and bachata, and making new friends! Hopefully me moving to Korea works out as well as the rest of my random, crazy ideas because here I go!