Life is good...

I have been here in Korea for a little over two and a half months. It is amazing how quickly the time has flown by. When I first got here I put a calendar up on the wall and was checking off each day at a time, this morning I realized I hadn’t done
it in awhile and ended up checking off three weeks.

I always hated being by myself, that was my biggest fear about coming to Korea, I would be alone. I have come to an amazing realization, I love being alone!!! I love having no one to answer to but myself. I love coming and going when I want to,

I love being able to do what I want when I want, I love not worrying about what someone else wants to eat, or what someone else wants to do. It is the first time in my life that I have had just me to consider and it is actually amazingly freeing. I can walk in the door and drop my things wherever I feel like and there is no one to tell me no. 

That being said, I’ve realized that I can only handle chaos in my apartment for about two days before I have to clean. I never considered myself a neat freak, and maybe it’s just because my place is so small, but I can’t stand the mess. Last week I went and bought a bookshelf and a little table. Luckily, I have always been pretty hands on, but I did laugh when I took the pieces of the book shelf out and went to look at the instructions and realized they were all in Korean…go figure, but I only put one thing on backwards.

I have had my first experiences with cockroaches here….luckily I don’t have a HUGE fear of bugs, but they are freakish and I would be fine never seeing them again. The first time I was getting out of bed in the middle of the night and saw a shadow move on my floor….of course I proceeded to turn on the light and scream, but then got my head about me and caught the thing and threw it out the front door. I’m a tough girl! Or at least that what I kept repeating to myself as I was doing it.

I have had a bit of a tough time making friends, not for lack of people, but for lack of finding people that I find interesting or have any real desire to spend time with. That being said, I am spending a lot of time by myself doing my own thing, wandering, traveling, spending quiet afternoons at the park with a good book. That being said I have met a few really cool people.

This is the first time in my life that I am making enough money that I don’t have to worry about paying my bills, which is so nice…I can’t even find words to describe it. The lack of stress about financial obligations is the most amazing thing. I can totally understand why so many people I have met here have stayed for multiple years for the simple fact that there is job security making good money and not having to pay for your housing.

There are days that I wish I could jump in the car and have lunch with my mom, or take my best friend to dinner…but with the benefits of the internet, skype and other messengers home is never that far away. I can imagine that years ago it would have been a totally different world, but I have the ability to talk to and see my parents on Skype pretty much daily, which is great. I even set up a US number that forwards to my Korean cell phone which is great to know that I am only a phone call away if needed.

So…like the title says…Life is soooo good!!