You Can't Miss What You Never Had...

... But you can miss what you did have, even if it was just for a little while.

I'm not much of a people person, so admittedly I didn't make friends with every student who went to Kongju on my program. But the friends I did make, I miss a lot. Maybe it's because I'd forgotten what it was actually like to gain new friendships. Having people there to chat with whenever, people to sit around with at night, people to go grab a [cheap, awesome, korean] meal with just randomly, people to have a drink with. I didn't think it was possible to become close with somebody during just a few weeks, but the fact that it was so hard to part with them proved that theory wrong. And I can't remember the last time I shed a tear with a goodbye. Maybe it's cos I'm older now and the implication of saying goodbye weighs heavier in my mind. Or maybe I'm just getting soft =.=

Either way, the trip to Korea, although short, was pretty inspiring. I've got some goals to work towards now, which is a refreshing change. First, I want to devote some time to actually learning some Korean, not just sitting around and thinking about how it would be nice to understand the language. Which leads to the second thing, which is going back to Kongju on another program, maybe for a few months, just to be immersed in the language and the culture. I think it'd be a really awesome experience. And thirdly, I want to study harder this year, so that maybe, MAYBE next year I can go on exchange to America for a semester. And so that maybe I'll be offered a place in honors.

But uh... to do most of those I need to get a job, so... as soon as I get my macbook up and running again I'll be printing off my resume and job hunting. My charger decided to break the day I got back from Korea when my battery was already pretty dead, so... I've been using my dad's laptop for the past few days =.= But on the job thing... I'm going for my RSA on Feb 18, so hopefully that'll open up some more job possibilities.

Oh and also in Korea, I realized that I CAN actually survive without eating junk food all the time >_> So now I'm in Sydney again I'll try not to go back to being such a fatty xD

So I guess... I want things to be different this year. Hopefully I'll be able to make it happen. Well, not hopefully. I'll make it happen when I make it happen :)