June 26, 2003

• I¡¯m HERE~
  haha I woke up at 5:30 am today, after going to sleep at 10.  Looks like I won¡¯t have any problems with jetlag. but seriously, yesterday was tiring.  planes, stopover, bus, then car ride.  but it's good to be here. SO good to be here.

  
  

  thanks to those who contacted me~ once i get a cell phone i'll be sure to post up here, friendster, email pplz... yadda yadda. haha. and here i thought i'd be spending all summer alone. HA~ my fourth time to Korea, so it's good to change it up and be alone.  well, pretty much alone... my aunt (dad's cousin) is great but this is the first time i've ever met her, that i remember.  both her and her husband graduated from Yonsei, and they've already given me names of professors to go track down and say hi to. so yeah. although exciting/scary to be on my own, it's comforting to know i'll be seeing some familiar faces soon =D i already made my first Yonsei friend~! met Noah from UCI on the plane. cool deal.

  
  

  
  other than that, this morning i've been writing emails and figuring out what to do.  My dad wrote me already. hahahaha. so cute. yes, i gush about him. what of it.  he wrote me such a friggin long letter.  he summed it all up pretty well near the end:

  
  

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  basically saying he knows i'm grown up but b/c he still thinks of me as his little girl he's prolly nagged me too much (haha, 2/3 of the letter was on manners and etiquette that's already been drilled into me for the past 20 years. how did i confirm this? every single thing he listed i'd already done, including those he hadn't... tsk tsk. appa's slipping. )  but that last paragraph is more like him: completely trusting that I am God's child, thinking of me, praying for me... the good stuff.

  
  

   travelling is truly a blessing.  once again, a chance to confirm my identity as a child of God.  Like my dad wrote, whether i feel at home in Korea or America isn't important because I'm already a citizen of Heaven.  what an even greater blessing, then, that these past years i've learned to adapt in any environment and can say i feel at home here.  in Korea.  in the East.  in Seattle.  at school.  in Covina.  wherever blessed, blessed, blessed, blessed me.

  
  

  now to get my hair done
  

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