5 More Days!

I am getting pretty excited and restless about leaving to start my new life (well not exactly new, but a new chapter) in Korea! I am still expected to leave next Friday morning sometime even though I don't have an official plane ticket yet. Apparently the school was late in giving the agency their credit card number to book the first ticket, so now they have to rebook it. They promise me though that I am still leaving on Friday because the school expects me to get there on Saturday. I won't have my own place for at least the first week and I will be staying with Charlie himself, of Charlie's EFL College (the school that I'll work at for fifteen months). He lives in the middle of Seoul in a very nice part by Lotte World (amusement park in the middle of the city) and Lotte World Hotel and shopping mall. My friend who works for the census department in Korea told me that I am a very lucky man because I will be in such a famous and very rich area of Seoul. My other friend is excited about my arriving too, I am taking her some makeup and books that she ordered to. She is like you will be arriving for Autumn which is very beautiful here and mountain climbing. Then I'll probably see the other guy too that I haven't met yet, my friend's friend. I have his cell phone number and everything and I think he is excited to meet me. I hope I end up really liking it there and its not two months into it I am so depressed and ready to break the contract and lose all kinds of money and come home. I hope I like the food and can get used to it alright, that is my biggest fear. if not I'll have to go to all the American places everyday I guess and spend tons of money!

I also have to think about all that I am leaving behind here though in the states by going to Korea. My grandma is dying of cancer and if she goes like a week after I am there, I don't know if I'll see the funeral. But the funny part is though that in the last three weeks I have seen her more than my brother and dad and rest of the family becuase they don't really go near death. Plus we have never ever been super close to her. My other grandparents came down this weekend and will be down until Monday morning. My 81 year old grandma keeps talking about how she doesn't think she'll be alive anymore when I get back, which is a little bit of a downer. But everyone seems to be supportive and understanding except for all this talk of death.
What about all of my friends though? Will I still be good friends with some of my best friends when I come back or whatever happens? I guess it will help me realize the people who truly are my good life long friends, but I am not too worried I have a lot of life long friends already I think. So much will change, but a lot will stay the same I hope like my family and friends and the love for and from them. Okay, I am not going to start being too sappy and sentimental.

Packing is pretty much done. . . except for the stuff I won't pack until the day or two before. I am doing really good though with the two suitcases that I'll check in I am hoping to be at 100 lbs total or under which is good (considering that I took 45 lbs to Cape Cod this summer for five days)! It still makes me laugh that I ended up taking that much! I am having a little bit of trouble at times trying to make myself face the question of "do I really need to take this?" There has been some taking stuff out of the luggage and then later repacking it back or spending ten minutes deciding if something should really come out or stay in. I think I'll be fine though.

I am ready to go!