Never let me go~ wistfully waiting

Twenty days to go. Fewer than three weeks... Where does the time go? It feels like time is sand running through my fingertips and I can not keep all that time in my hands, I must let go of it.

Sometimes I feel scared to leave and that my life is somehow going on a brake. It is a weird feeling and I have had to assure that "No, your life is not  going to be on hold." I have had to went down to the roots of where this feeling comes from. It comes from the fact that my life is here, relationship, friends and job. But in the other hand I think that first time I am going to enjoy studying and student life when I don't have job to think about also I will see and learn new culture which is not possible here. I will have experience that I will hold on to even when I am old. I hope to make memories.

I read Kazuo Ichiguro's book Never let me go and there the main character is looking back on her memories but somehow also looking forward to the future she knows but at the same time don't know. I know what is stored for me in Korea but only for small parts I certainly at the same time don't know a thing. Example I know I will be living in a small dormitory room with a room mate BUT I don't know who is my room mate, how is she, will we become friends, where is my room? is it in third floor or sixth? So I wait the answers for these things I don't know.

But for the good things in life now everything is ready for my departure. I have registered the courses! At two A.M and I had been awoke for 19 hours, was a bit drowsy...
Here is a list what to remember to do to prepare your exchange year.

List: What to prepare
  1. Passport and Visa
  2. Insurance
  3. Health check up (if needed) and vaccines 
  4. Flying tickets
  5. Living there (dormitory) and hotel
  6. Course registration
  7. Money
And all that is now ready for me. It does seem like short list but oh god it was so much work and stressing me to run to an errand to an errand. I am happy that now it is just waiting, packing, working and relaxing. Most importantly I am trying to not freak out... :D

Love Miisa~


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