March and April are going to be two very action-packed months. March is my last month before my April vacation, and I'll need to say goodbye to some really amazing people that I've met during the last year that won't be here when I return, and some I may never see again. Each of them have touched my life in some way that I will never forget.
When I first came here, making friends was difficult. I work at a small school in a small area with not many foreigners. Sure, downtown is a 10-minute walk away, but most foreigners look the other way when they see someone they don't know. Eleven months later, people cross the street to talk to me. I absolutely love it.
I really do love it here, and I'm so happy that I've decided to spend a pretty significant portion of my life here over the next few years. I have a lot of things to look forward to, as well.
- I'm starting a great new school in May and I'll be living around the corner from my sister. I'm so excited about that.
- Although I'll be living in Daejeon, I've come to really love Gwangju and I know I'll be down here a lot. I also hope my friends in Korea's art and cultural 'City of Light' plan to visit me in Korea's city of Science and Technology, 'It's Daejeon!'
- My birthday is in June, and I plan on having the best celebration ever.
- I plan on seeing the Korean F1 circuit this year. (Yes, I'll be there.) Tickets were expensive last year, but I'm not missing this year's for the world.
- Hopefully I'll also get to work on my technical side with the Gwangju Performance Project again. The Real Inspector Hound was an awesome time.
- I'll be getting outside more. There's nothing like having the urge to go hiking (yes, I just said that) and not having anyone to go hiking with. Not sure I'll be doing anymore hiking marathons, though. I'm a bit over that.
March will be a time of saying goodbye, and the first half of April will be a time just for me. I'm taking my first international vacation to Greece, and will spend roughly two weeks in Athens' poshest suburb, the coastal town of Glyfada. I'm not kidding when I say I plan on spending 8 of the 11 days there on the beach. I might get up to Athens one day (a 15-minute public transportation ride away), and I'm definitely taking a ferry to Santorini for a day or two. I just want to relax, tan on the beach of the Agean Sea, sample some local Grecian food, snap a few photos of Santorini and see how beautiful it really is, and spend some time on me.
I'll be home in Florida for 7-8 days after Greece, and although it's shorter than I wanted, I plan on making the most of every second. Jetlag can wait until I get back in Korea.
For those of you who are leaving Korea, whether to go home and start a new life or continue the work-abroad experience, I wish you the best and hope that this is not goodbye forever. For those of you staying in Gwangju, I'll be down quite often to hang out, I promise. It's a short 2-hour train/bus ride away. And for those of you looking forward to my arrival in Daejeon in May, here's to some awesome times in the future!
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