here and there and back again, or how learning korean kicked my ass

hello there. long time, eh? almost a year. i thought about leaving this blank 'til the 29th, it's just 17 more days...

but, you know. naaaaaaaaaaaaaaah.

thank you for all of the well wishes last year. they helped me a lot. i would come back to the blog and read them throughout the year.

the year. it was difficult. i think i have some kind of emotional block with korean. not sure. it was a lot harder than i was expecting, emotionally.

i won't go into detail. just that it was a difficult year, i got pretty sick, gained a lot of weight, and dropped out of school in late spring (just after mid-terms for level 3). i didn't write here because it was sort of painful. weird, eh?

but it wasn't all bad.

i ~~~~

~~~made some awesome friends. most have gone back to japan now, which is sad. one from the states is still here, though, and she's awesome. i'm really grateful she's still around.

~~~got engaged to the Canadian Boy.~^^

~~~went home this summer and worked on a great musical with awesomeawesomeawesome people.

now am back in seoul for one more year. mostly b/c the paperwork to bring Canadian Boy to the USofA takes, on average, 9+ months. we didn't want to be apart for 9+ months again... he can save more money here... it seemed completely wrong that he would be in Seoul while i was in Minnesota... AND i didn't want to end the experience in Korea on last year's confidence-sucking slump.

so here we are.

well. currently here i am. the Canadian boy finished his contract (at a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad hagwon) and is on a well-deserved vacation with his family in Canada. he'll be back in a month or so, when he finds a (hopefully) wonderful, awesome, super nice, very good job.

i'm trying to build a private lesson studio. am also trying to figure out my thoughts on adoption, whether to do a birth family search, whether i can handle studying korean in a possibly less-stressful situation or if i'm always going to feel... like an american, fake-korean failure.

dude. yeah... emotional something-something going on.

so. last year. was. kind of. a mess.

~lol~

anyway. here's bits of last year in photos. random order, sorry 'bout that. ends with my time back home in minnesota. photos of happenings since i've been back next time.

will check in soon. sooner than 348 days, anyway. ha.