This time tomorrow I'll be back in the ROK.
So it's almost time for me to be going back to Korea
I'm not sad about leaving, but I wouldn't be sad about staying! Maybe I just wasn't gone long enough, but I felt no reverse culture shock (I didn't really feel any in Korea, either, though). I never felt 'omg i miss Korea/America/this or that'. I have never been the type that goes 'omg I'm in (insert place)!!!1!' no matter where I've gone
I do always feel very satisfied being in places I like or enjoy. I guess it's just my personality~ anyone else do this, too?
I don't wanna feel so weird...
HOWEVER I do miss my keunseok
Not a terrible amount, especially when i was with my friends, but I am still excited to see him when go back~ (and tbh, I think he has missed me a lot
I don't blame him, though. while I'm here relaxing and hanging out, he is having to go to work and be responsible). And I also have moments where I become really sad I'm leaving my friends/family
Before i left Korea, my laptop suddenly wouldn't turn on
I took it to an apple retailer in Hongdae, but it acutally turned on when I was there (of course
) but the man said it was probably an ~$800 fix
i was like HELL NO and figured I should just buy a new Macbook instead of an $800 repair! So when I arrived in Spokane, mom and dad took me to the new Apple store (we never use to have one on the east side of Washington) and I gave to them. they were going to ship it out for a flat repair fee of $310 no matter what the problem
Better than $800 or having to buy a new one! A week later they get it back and I go in to pick it up and.........the repairs were free
Somehow the awesome guy there managed to put it under a warranty from when I had issues two summers ago since I had let him know about it
So awesomeeeee Mac may be pricey but so far both times I've had a problem that weren't my fault at all, I got them fixed for free!
My brother had an extra case of his Proactive face care stuff around the house, so I started to use it
My skin recently has been AWFUL
So much under-the-skin crap around my chin, I was becoming so self-conscious and was really hating on my face
IDK what it was or what happened, but since I started using it I've noticed my skin has become better. It's still not that great, and the Proactive has made it hella dry, but I'm willing to have dry skin for a while if it means my acne goes away
rage.
i met up with youngeun, my PEACE buddy/regular ewha student, & went to her parents' house to have dinner/hang out. her mother was so nice and cute!
and their grandmother is vegetarian as well, so the mother knew what foods to cook. after dinner, youngeun & her sister taught me how to play go-stop, something i've wanted to learn since i first saw some exchange students play
youngeun is also a big harry potter fan and had the series in korean; they publish the books in smaller parts instead of one big book! i thought it was cool and had to take a picture
the 21st of january was keunseok's birthday
we didn't do a lot on the day itself since he had work. he is now 27~
top two are from his birthday night; he had ordered a new desktop pc for himself and it had finally arrived. i helped pay for half, so this was...SORT OF like a bday present
but i also bought him a jacket from a&f online that he'll get when i go back
bottom are the next day; we met with keunseok's great uncle who speaks english and his sister, keunyoung. she came over after lunch and we hung out/ate pizza/watched secret garden
now that i can speak at least a little korean, we can communicated a looot better. she's one of the few people i don't mind speaking my awful korean to.
the rest of the weekend, including monday (he took an extra day off) we did nothing but stay inside, play on the computer (downloaded
fall out 3
and
bioshock 2
)
in our defense, it was like record-cold weekend. plus i have wanted to play bioshock 2 for FOREVER. and i also started to play fall out 3 and lo~ve it. i'm acutally playing
fall out: new vegas
on my brothers' xbox 360 while i'm here.
some nails i did! they were sort of quick, but i saw these nails on tumblr and just fell in love
i'm going to redo them when i go back and try them again. i'm getting SO much better at nails now!
still not amazing but whatever yo. helps me stay on a budget.
at the incheon airport; my flights were good, & except for the flight from seoul to tokyo they were all pretty empty
i love my new suit case, though! i wish i could be one of those people who has minimal luggage, but i never put any electronics on my check-in, and this makes it so secure/easy to carry them all around instead of the usual backpack i would use
flight from seattle to spokane; i think it's mt rainier; i always know i'll see this when i fly this way.
went and visited logan at his school breifly; then we went and watched
black swan
. i liked it! not so sure if my brother and dad did though
teedo & ruby~
teedo i so ornery/hyper-puppyish. and i don't think he realizes he's so big yet
1st weekend back i went to the tricities to gene's (parents') place
lauren & elisabeth went there as well, and pat showed up!
whenever i'm hanging out with these guys, we are always so lazy
or we just play a bunch of games or watch tv/movies. but i love it; i feel so comfortable around them
gene's mom, lydia, is also one of those parents you just enjoy being around; i would call her my friend before refering to her as just gene's mother.
i did cut gene's hair; i think since i've met him he's only gotten haircuts from me
but i ONLY like to give trims to guys; they don't care as much what their hair looks like
sunday we followed elisabeth & lauren down to cwu, my home school. we went out to eat at perkins
i LOVE those type of restaurants that serve breakfast, lunch & dinner at the same time. i always get hashbrowns, eggs, toast, etc...
i'm a dork.
i stayed at lauren's apartment; it's SO nice!
she has her own room and bathroom and even if she isn't that close to her roommates, they still seem very nice and are very clean/neat
visiting sort of made me wish we hall had at least once more quarter left together; but i also know what once i come back from korea i'll be sad to be leaving my guy behind.
conundrum.
the next day we were leaving in the afternoon
so i met up with ian & elsie at starbucks, then had lunch at lauren's place. of course everyone had classes they had to be at, so after they all left mom & i headed home
drive home; DICKS fast food place, slightly famous around spokane
~
ruby from behind
connor & me being weird
acutally he was 'modeling' the coat i got for keunseok. i was just being dorky
then this past weekend, lauren, gene, yusuke & elisabeth all came to my hosue again!
i didn't think they really would, but i'm so glad & grateful they did
i am really going to miss them...we took teedo on a walk around the lake. that was really the only time i took pictures haha.
my looong shadow
and ruby is getting so old/lazy that she will "walk" for about two steps then make you carry her
so we put her in a backpack again and brought her with us
yesterday i went on a small shopping trip with mom
i mostly got things i wanted to buy in america, but i also bought a new purse & shoes. i acutally haven't really spent any money here
yesterday was the first time i bought anything outside of the airport; we never went "out" enough an when i did my mom just paid for it for me! ty mom~ for all the starbucks, the random bathroom things i wanted and for driving everywhere
she had taken time off while i was here so i've been with her like all the time lol
and this up coming weekend there is another tumblr meet up in hongdae! i want to go bad enough that i think i'll go even if keunseok isn't in the mood