I received my passport back to day from the Korean Consulate. My journey is on!

I realized that I have been incredibly calm. It will be the first time that I’ve ever been away from my family at all. It’ll be the first time that I’ve lived on my own. Now I’m about to move to a country of which I have no friends and barely know how to speak the language. When I told my co-workers and friends about teaching in Korea, they all ask, “Aren’t you scared? I’d be freaked out.” I don’t feel nervous or any sense of fear. Maybe it’s because I really wanted this challenge.

I wanted to do this to find myself again. The last two years of high school was hell for me because of deep internal issues. I was deeply troubled by somethings that happened in my past, and I simply suppressed my feelings about them. When the people that caused this pain appeared back into my life, I ended up experiencing a mental implosion. It affected me so much so, that I couldn’t recognize myself anymore. I had no faith in my abilities, no confidence. I felt like a shell of my former self. It affected everything. It took me nearly six years to feel somewhat like myself again, but I still feel like something is missing from me. I don’t really know what it is. What I’m hoping to gain from this experience is to try regain the balance in my life that I once had, to accept myself fully, and to trust in my abilities to adapt to the circumstances in this journey of life.

In short, I am not worried about what challenges I am to face on my trip to South Korea because I welcome them.

I just got off work, and now I’m waiting for Logic Pro to finish downloading. Due to my boredom, I decided to take a picture of my face whilst waiting. I’ve got to say, I do like my makeup today.

GPOYT-I missed Wednesday by 42 minutes

I should really go to bed, but my rediscovery of Grooveshark and Tumblr has me procrastinating on sleep. However, the sandman seems to have sprinkled his dust on me, for my eyelids are starting to droop and a slight stinging has set upon them. Alas, it is indeed time for me to bid adieu to the internet world, curl up into a comfy ball and listen to podcasts until I drift off into the world of dreams.

I can’t help it - Michael Jackson (by oOgananaOo)

I was checking out jsmooth’s tumblr when I came across his post of the first hour of his radio show The Underground commemorating the 2nd anniversary of Michael Jackson’s death. Some of this song was played in a pretty cool MJ mix, which is why it’s stuck in my head.

Off the Wall is my favorite MJ album. You can hear so many different musical influences in the songs: jazz, disco, funk, soft rock, etc. He was really showing his stuff on here. While I found pleasure in listening to Thriller, Bad, Dangerous, as well as his other subsequent material, Off the Wall just has a little more spark to it, in my opinion. (Besides…Rock With You is on it, and that is my jam! I have yet to have a playlist without that song.)

(I look quite frumpy in this pic, but I just had to share the news) I brought my Macbook Pro today ^_^ His name is Fernando. I will be taking my macbook with me to South Korea. I’m going to miss having my iMac around, but I like Fernando, too. I think I’m going to buy the magic mouse because I like it better for doing some tasks.

For the past few months I’ve been sending documents back and forth, here and there, to different people. I’ve gotten farther than I did last time. I’m excited!!!! I’m going to start again working on my travel blog. I’m debating on whether I should make one on Blogger or on Wordpress. Decisions, decisions.

k-ong:

La Défense by TheFella on Flickr.

(Source: queenk-ong)

On top of that, my wisdom tooth that was extracted had 3 roots. My dentist had not seen that before. I wish I had taken a picture.