I'm in Korea now! :D I spent the first 2.5 days at Gana's house, which was great. She and her family were great hosts. Her dad says I'll be a success in Korea because I "eat Korean food well". I'm writing this from the college while the necessary software to transfer pics from my phone installs. I might skip breakfast today.... in fact, I probably already have skipped breakfast... no, nevermind. My phone is setting itself an hour late. I have more stuff than most of the other people who came here, but I packed everything on the list and probably don't have to buy anything new, so I guess I shouldn't be "too" embarrassed... although I did end up trashing a few things which I couldn't find reason for packing.

Been thinking a lot about Hyewon... I'm not sure how to approach girls here. I'm kinda waiting for a response from her, and I don't want to engage in anything which I will just have to cut off even if it works. Well, I hope things with her work out, and I hope I don't have to wait until October to hear her tell me "no". I wonder what she's thinking.



Here, I wrote a post while I was on the plane:

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Date: 8/19/10

Left home today amid a flurry of warnings and prayers from my mother. Dad went out and spent a ton of money on a nice pair of hiking pants. (By "a ton" -- probably about $75) Idk, they're really nice pants and all, but so expensive. I guess I needed them. They have more than enough pockets to secure all my stuff.

Listening to Owl City right now. "On The Wing" just seemed too perfect to pass up.

I think I've already talked about the drinking age in Korea, and, well, the stewardesses are totally cool with me drinking wine on the flight... so I'm not sure if it's cool for me to give a positive about that online, but....

I sent my last text to Hyewon about two hours ago. It just said "Ok have a good nap lol. I'm in the terminal for korea now. Thanks for coming this morning! see you in korea:)" I'll I can't turn on my phone at all during this flight. [[the lights just went out in the cabin. 8 hours of flight left, and I'm just not tired. Maybe it was the two cups of coffee... lol. dimming monitor]] Hyewon and I snuggled pretty close last night, and we talked about whether or not we aught to be in a relationship or not. I specifically said "boyfriend and girlfriend" this time because she didn't get the connotative meaning behind "relationship" in my last (super awkward) attempt. Things went alot better this time. She knew exactly what I was talking about. She said that she wanted to think more about it before answering, but she seemed to be in favor of the idea in principle (not sure if I'm using the expression "in principle" correctly here, but you get the idea, right?). She asked me some questions that I honestly had kindof a hard time answering; like "why did you and Gabrielle break up?" (which is such a ridiculous story that I hate telling it just out of embarrassment), and later, we were kindof rehashing a subject we'd talked about earlier (maybe "rehashing" isn't the best word, because it was a pretty pleasant discussion, but it's all I've got right now); she was talking about how lots of people in Korea get plastic surgery and how she wanted to. (specifically, double eye surgery and a nose-job) I told her I thought she shouldn't, and, of course, ended up having to explain to her how pretty she was(is), which I was unprepared for at the time. Let's just say I'd like nothing more than a second chance at that,. She asked me to define beauty, and half-way accused me of having a generalized opinion of the appearance of every Asian girl (in a non-joking way), which I had a hard time proving false, but I think I did so satisfactorily, because she came back and leaned on me some more. lol, we were tossing compliments back and forth and she said that I looked like Piglet from Winnie the Pooh, which completely confused me, but after some clarification on her part, I think she -actually- meant it as a compliment. She said it just meant "cute", but.... well.... wtp.

I got to tell Gavin "Happy Birthday" but he called me, not me calling him. I would have forgotten and then felt absolutely awful otherwise.

Early Birdie is playing now. It kinda conflicts with the dark and sleepy atmosphere of the cabin.

*yawn*... speaking of sleepy... I'm really sleepy.

"'Till morning?"
"Forever."