I’m in Korea.
While here, I have felt across an ocean from my worries. Like I am looking at them from a long distance away. They do not feel as threatening from here. And isn’t that half the point of traveling, to get your worries back down to size? And your appreciation for your pleasures back up to size?
Seoul. Daegu.
Where my dad grew up.
My best friend from YWAM that I hadn’t seen for eight years.
Korean language, hospitality, etc.
Striking out on my own, mapless.
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I will go to Yosemite National Park! I want to go so much! I can’t believe I’ve been all over the world and never been to the glorious-ness right in my own backyard. Speaking of, I still need to go to Glacier too (what kind of idiot “lives” there for any length of time and *doesn’t* go?… me!), but I really want to go to Yosemite… look!!!
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Just found a supremely interesting job to apply for. I’d even get to live in “a setting with potential security concerns.” Guesses where???
Lebanon.
You know I’m gonna apply for it… I, of course, already started.
(6th one down…)
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I only have two years left to be able to do ->->S.A.L.T.<-<-
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On day 1 I was born.
On day 113 I found my toes and stuck them in my mouth.
On day 283 I was learning to walk.
On day 377 I discovered my belly button.
On day 588 I played in the fall leaves.
On day 659 I was getting interested in potty training.
On day 1,074 I could still fit into a laundry basket with my brother.
On day 1,597 I had my first day of nursery school.
On day 1,896 I put my cat in a dress and bonnet.
On day 3,036 I couldn’t wait till recess to get a rock out of my shoe.
On day 3,534 I got roller blades for Christmas.
On day 3,672 M came to my house after school.
On day 4,156 we built a tree house.
On day 4,188 I had the song “Fork in the Road” stuck in my head.
On day 4,217 I was worried that my friend K might go back to Alaska.
On day 4,404 I “traded S.C. a normal, constant flow black pen for a cute bugs bunny pen…”
On day 4,229 my cousin died.
On day 4,497 another cousin died in a car accident.
On day 4,915 my wrist was in a splint because a boy accidentally tripped me at soccer.
On day 4,956 Best Friend R spent the night at my house.
On day 5,258 a boy asked me to the homecoming dance.
On day 5,457 I had my first track meet.
On day 5,657 I scored in our soccer tournament game.
On day 6,028 I was missing my brother, who was at college.
On day 6,210 I got my driver’s license.
On day 6,726 I was starting my DTS in YWAM.
On day 6,851 I was in Thailand.
On day 6,896 I started working at the assisted-living facility.
On day 6,919 (or near abouts) I was rejected by YWAM.
On day 7,193 Best Friend R got married.
On day 7,334 Brother got married.
On day 7,350 I was in Russia.
On day 7,408 I was in Ireland.
On day 7,636 I went to college classes.
On day 7,692 I was in Bethlehem, Palestine/Israel.
On day 8,028 I gave a solo piano recital.
On day 8,233 I got all-conference honors for my final season of college soccer.
On day 8,413 I graduated with my Bachelor’s degree.
On day 8,625 I had my first contact with Pickle Man.
On day 8,639 I got my belly button pierced.
On day 8,769 I ran a half marathon.
On day 8,821 I graduated with my Master’s in Social Work.
On day 8,924 I resigned from the assisted-living facility, accepted a job as a counselor, and Pickle Man and I ended our dating relationship.
On day 8,928 I wrote this post.
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1. Earn a Ph. D. in Social Work
2. Write a book
3. Live in another a non-Western, Spanish-speaking country for at least one year
4. Become fluent in Spanish another language
5. Run three one marathon
6. Play the piano with a symphony orchestra
7. Live in Virgina (almost check)
8. Get another BA or Masters degree
9. See a flamenco performance in southern Spain
10. Backpack in Switzerland
11. Surprise R with a visit Go to Italy with R
12. Befriend someone famous
13. Be a psychotherapist/counselor (almost check)
14. Work with SMD population (almost check)
15. Make All-Conference for soccer (check)
16. Live on a farm
17. Hike the entire Appalachian Trail in Fall
18. Go to Dominican Republic with T
18. Change careers
19. Give a solo piano recital (check)
20. Graduate from undergrad with at least a 3.8 (check)
21. See an opera in the New York Met. Twice.
22. Attend a protest as a participant
23. Coach soccer
23. Sell (almost) everything I own and start over, simpler
24. Skydive
25. Learn to drive in Columbus rush hour traffic (check, but still in process)
26. Hug Seoung Joo again Hug Seoung Joo again in South Korea
27. Make a friend on all 7 continents
28. See a Buckeye game in the horse shoe
28. Own a MacBook
29. This one is a secret. You’ll never guess. (Hope I remember.)
*Last updated 10-1-09
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