T-130 days ’til I’m home!

Hey everyone, I am sitting in my favourite cafe right now with every intention of updating you on the events of the last month, but I have realized that a proper update is going to take several visits to Jaeng-E as I have just looked through my photos from the last month and there is over 600 of them to go through to post.  I have been MIA since I last went to Busan because I was trying to make the most of my time with Katarina and Hugh who left this beautiful island to pursue bigger and better things a week ago today, and as a result of my time spent with them,  I’ll have many an adventure to report once I get everything sorted through. 

I have to admit, it’s been quite sad without them, but I am faring relatively well considering they were my family away from home.  Luckily I still have Robyn and some other good friends here on the island to take care of me, and so the separation anxiety probably hasn’t hit me yet because my mornings have also been occupied by my new exercise routine, correspondence that was long overdue (sorry mom), and the cleaning that was necessary after having 3 extra bodies livining in my apartment for 5 days (Kat, Hugh and the love of my life Bubak,  moved in with me between their contract end dates and their day of departure) .  I have had a little more time to think in the last week though, and that has been hard (when my mind is left to its own devices, a depressing reality about the privilege I have in life and how I am not using it to its greatest potential  always tends to set in, leaving me feeling guilty and a little depressed about the state of the rest of the world), but I suppose that kind of thinking really isn’t a bad thing because it’s important to recognize where there is need for personal improvement and act on it.  I think that if anything good can come from Kat and Hugh leaving, it will give me more time for self reflection and I can focus my energies on figuring out what exactly I am going to do with my life and if I am going to adhere to the original plan.  (To stay or not to stay in Korea is the very first question).

In any case, I will certainly be updating more often as I have a lot to catch up on and a lot to look forward to in the coming weeks, so expect to hear from me again very soon.  For the time being I am formally letting you know that I am alive and well and am sending my love to everyone.  I hope everything is great back home.

xox Michelle

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