One year

8:02pm Monday, April 2, 2012
A year has come and gone.
I cannot believe I've lived and survived in a different country for a whole year.
I was thinking about it the other day..and there are so many people who live in only one country for their whole life.. never getting to see and experience anything else.
I feel so privileged to have gotten the chance to live and experience Korea.
No matter what I do or where I go in life, I'm sure I'll always remember my time spent here.

Tomorrow is my last day of teaching.
I will probably never hear kids calling me Nugee Teacher ever again.
What a bitter sweet feeling.
I'm so excited to go home and surprise my family, but a little worried about going home to.. no job.
However, I'm sure the Lord will watch over me and guide me..as He has here in Korea.

I'm having a goodbye dinner with my coworkers tomorrow after work. Then, I'll spend the rest of the night cleaning because some people will be coming by Wednesday morning to check my place for the new teacher. Hopefully they can put my deposit into my account before I leave.
Then, at night Sheng will be coming here to help me take my luggages to the airport.
I don't fly out until Thursday morning, but I need help with luggages so I will be spending a night at the airport..once again.
I will probably blog some more there. I'm not even going to post this until I get to the states. I'm not sure if my sister reads my blog or not.
Oh. It's going to be so fun surprising them. I'm hoping to get it all on camera :)

Thursday, April 5, 2012 7:59am
Waiting to board at Incheon Airport.
Surprisingly, I'm not feeling sad nor excited.
I'm not emotional at all. It is the weirdest thing.
However, I guess I've always been prepared to leave this place.
I knew I'd only be here for a year or two. I knew better to not get too comfortable.
So, I guess it's ok to not feel anything.
I came to Korea with only 2 luggages and I'm leaving with the same luggages plus 5 boxes shipped home :/
It has been a nice, fun, exciting, adventurous year.
I'll miss so many things about this place, but I look forward to what God has in store for me in the states.
Farewell South Korea~~

Life now.

Today, oddly enough, I wanted to blog.

Thought about creating a new one, but remembered I still have this one.

So. I figured I should just update here.

write about whatever I want. life. love. everything. 

I'm enjoying a quiet Saturday all by myself while my "husband" is at work.

The first part of my Hmong wedding took place 2 weekends ago. So, I'm officially married in the Hmong way. However, we are still planning for an American wedding which will hopefully happen next year.

To Hmong people, I say I'm married.

To others, I say I'm engaged.

it's funny because then some people refer to him as my fiance and others refer to him as my husband.

me? I call him my "homie" because he is. 

It's been about 6 months since I've been back from Korea. I read my previous blog and realized that I never wrote about how I decided to come back home.

Long story short. When I decided that I was going to stay another year in Korea, my heart just wasn't settling.  I was extremely sad with that decision. Talked to a lot of friends and family about it. At the end, I decided to come home and felt the biggest relief ever. 

I still think about Korea often. I hope to be able to go back and visit one day in the future. But for now, I'm happy where I'm at now.

Wedding planning is frustrating because I don't know where to start.

and with a small budget.. it's even harder.

I dedicated this whole weekend to planning, but instead I'm figuring out other ways to keep me occupied. blogging.

Anyway. I guess that's enough updates for now.

OMG I just realized I had saved a post that I was waiting to publish once I got home from Korea! Published now!