The last month was a whirlwind, and I remember very little of the last two weeks. It's been absolutely ridiculous, and I'm still not quite sure how it all came together and how I'm actually sitting here blogging, ready to go in less than two hours. The fact that I'm leaving is just so surreal - I'm still half-convinced that I'm just skipping off for the weekend again and I'll be back in this apartment Sunday night and at my desk on Monday morning. I haven't had time to really get excited for this trip, or even plan for it (oops). I've been so stressed and busy, and feeling really resentful of all the school work I have to do and all the odds and ends I have to take care of for leaving Korea and planning my trip. AND I got pink eye last week.
But in between the lack of sleep, never-ending lesson plans and worksheets, difficult goodbyes, and mile-long to-do lists, I've been trying to curb my complaining and keep in mind the reasons I'm doing all this work and going nuts right now. My 'problems' are like this:
I was so busy with school and summer classes, but I had a job right out of college and actually made a decent amount of money for a year. Also, I was paid extra to do the extra work.
I was so busy with packing my stuff , closing up my apartment, stopping all my utilities, and paying the final bills, but it's because I lived abroad for a year and had an amazing time. Oh, and by the way, I did it in a FREE apartment.
I was so stressed with planning, packing for, and getting immunized against my trip on top of everything else, but holy shit! I'll be backpacking around SE Asia for seven weeks! I haven't had the time or energy to get excited about it yet, but damn! I know that once I'm doing amazing things in SE Asia everything will have been worth it.
Saying goodbye to coteachers and friends this weekend was really difficult, but I think I went out in style! I met friends for dinner on Thursday night, went out with two of my coteachers for dinner and drinks on Friday night, met another coteacher for coffee on Saturday afternoon, stayed out with friends until 5am on Saturday night, had dinner with Hyun Ju this (Sunday) evening, and met up with Bosun for a midnight movie tonight! I pulled all-nighters Thursday (to finish my school stuff) and tonight (movie and finishing packing) but I had an awesome weekend nonetheless.
I don't know my exact itinerary off the top of my head, (thank God I'm traveling with people who are more organized and sane than I am right now!) but between August 16th and October 3rd, I'll be in and out of: Vietnam - Camodia - Laos - Malaysia - Brueni - Singapore.
Maybe it's silly, but I'll probably blog a little bit more about Korea even after I leave it! There's some stuff I want to write about, and pictures I want to post, and I'll have my computer with me as I travel so I might as well. And I'm sure I'll have no shortage of things to say about my backpacking trip, so there should be new posts coming out long after I'm back in Wisconsin. And from there, who knows?
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