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I  don't know what I would do without the air conditioner since it is so bloody humid and hot here right now.
Started a travel blog:   www.onewingangel11.blogspot.com
I'll try  not to duplicate entries,  but  no promises.
I  move into my new place tomorrow. I'm excited.   I think I learned where a grocery store is so I can see about getting Zoe better settled, since I need a cat box and cat litter -  especially since I'm all out. I might ask  tomorrow when I  move into my place if they know of a place nearby which sells some.Orientation went well..  Just started  but will get more tomorrow.
Met the  teacher  I am taking over  for and we went out to dinner. The food was really weird.   You  got soup  in the middle of the table and then a train drives around  the restaurant on a track and you pick up the things to add to it which vary in price  - ramen  noodles for 1,000 won to dumplings or fish for 5,000. Should have taken a picture of it,  but I felt funny.
Need to figure out the internet and the phone so I can get that all squared away.
Hate this keyboard so  think this is it.
OWA

Well I made it intact. Zoe is currently hiding under the bed and hissing at me. I got her here with no hiccups.. except I lost her treat food since it was beef and you can't bring it into the country. It was relatively easy, though I was lost in the airport a lot. The space bar doesn't work which is really annoying.   So deal with the random double spaces should it happen.
Had the bank of seats to   myself   each time I flew which was really nice.   Was  picked up by the head of  my school who  took me to a hotel  in Changwon where I'll be staying for a couple of days.  It has free internet which would be so much cooler if the space bar didn't suck.
That's going to  be all..   I'm alive and  Zoe's alive and we're here.   
Orientation starts tomorrow  (not until noon) and I'll post more when I  get some sleep.   I've been  traveling for 24   hours straight and  its   11pm  here (like 9ish am pacific) and I haven't  slept   or really rested.
I'll update about the  rest of the stuff  tomorrow.
OWA

I leave the country in 12 hours.
I still can't believe it even though my bags are pretty much packed. 100 pounds is A LOT. I have no idea how I am going to carry all of this anywhere. Thankfully I'll have help getting to and from the airport and so I don't think it will be too much of a problem.
My birthday was pretty good - though really stressful. One aunt was panicking about everything so I had to deal with that plus a bunch of family members wanting to help with no real way of satisfying their need. I didn't even get home until 10 but I finished packing not that long ago.
My birthday party was good. Pretty mellow, but got to see a lot of people whom I hadn't seen in a while which was really nice.
Anyways I really need to get some sleep 'cause I'm exhausted (I didn't go to sleep until 5 this morning and woke up at 9)
I'm not sure when I'll have internet next, but I'm planning a travel blog (which will probably be cut and pasted into here) so we'll see.
Not sure if I mentioned it, but I had to go back to the doctor on Thursday which really sucked, since I missed Zoe's appointment because I waited in the waiting room for 3.5 hours. They wanted me to get a CT scan, which I got back earlier today.  Apparently I'm fine and healthy so they're baffled. Just what I always wanted. I did get a refill of a prescription which works which was nice.  Also since I didn't feel good, Wickedkitty and her boy took me to see the Dark Knight which was really good (especially since it was free 'cause they paid). Made me feel better though it was really dark and kind of depressing.
I hope things go smoothly, but since surprisingly with everyone else helping packing and stuff I only need two things from something that isn't here right now, and they're easily replaceable. Tomorrow morning before heading to the airport mom and I are going to do the last of my errands.
Anyways I'm off.
The next time I post I'll be in another country.. weird.
OWA

Today was pretty much almost a complete waste of a day.
I woke up feeling completely crappy - so crappy in fact that I had to go BACK to the doctors.. of course, today was the day that EVERYONE felt bad because I ended up waiting in the waiting room for over 3 HOURS.
What was even worse was that I had an appointment at the vet for my cat to finish up her stuff so I ended up leaving, but realized I couldn't make it when I made it to the main bus terminal so I took a bus back and there was still about 5 people ahead of me.
The doctor doesn't know what's wrong. My medication should be working - and indeed, I think my bladder infection is just about gone, but that doesn't seem to help the piercing pains in my side, and the general crampy feelings when there shouldn't be any crampy feelings. I have an appointment tomorrow to get a CT Scan. Makes me really glad I wasn't motivated to cancel my insurance since I *hope* that will pay for it because its going to be very expensive otherwise.
However, Wickedkitty and her boy took me to see the Batman movie because they knew that I wasn't up for very much more. Even though it was kind of dark and slightly depressing it was still really really good.
I didn't get ANYTHING accomplished today, and hope that nothing is too horrible. This is so not what I needed right now. Tragically I could bear a bladder infection since they suck and are kind of expensive but not too hard to treat and not debilitating while its being treated. This is something all together different and much more painful.
I think the fact that I'm leaving in 4 (almost 3) days and my health is going to shit is generally contributing to the overall completely overwhelmed and emotional feelings I'm having right now.
I so didn't want to have to deal with this right now, though I am glad that I have to deal with it here instead of in a foreign country that doesn't really speak my language. *sigh*
I'm going to go to sleep.. have to be up early for the test since they squeezed me in when there was room.
OWA

I can't believe I leave the country in 5 days... At this time on Monday I'll be waiting anxiously at the airport. *eep!*
I've been really productive lately. All I have left to pack is my clothes and kitchen stuff pretty much. I'll do a bunch of it today, and probably start the cleaning process since the house is really nasty.
Had my medication upgraded so hopefully it starts to work. If not, I'm going to have to go back to the doctor and that would suck BIG TIME.
Tomorrow Zoe gets to go to the vet and I get to finish up the last of the paperwork for her.
Going to run to the library to pick up the last batch of books to read before Saturday (there's only three so I think I can manage).
However, I need to finish the one I have and doing anything sedentary is almost a guarantee that I'll fall asleep. Stupid "may cause drowsiness" is causing lots of problems!
Guess I should get on that.
OWA
PS if you're interested in seeing me before I leave, let me know and I'll see what I can do!

Its always so enjoyable when Duanag comes up to visit. We always seem to have tons of fun.
Friday we ended up eating ice cream and watching Who Framed Roger Rabbit. I hadn't seen that movie in forever. Of course the VCR didn't want to give it up when I tried to remove it and I had to throw it out since it got completely destroyed, but at least we got to enjoy it one last time.
Saturday we did some errands and ended up going to this Pioneer Park with a bunch of old houses from the 1800s that were relocated to this park and went on this guided tour with this little old lady who really wanted to see the switch reintroduced in schools. She was a little scary at times. But there was lots of cool old things, and the lady - and the three old men on the tour with us - lived through the early 1920s and could still remember building outhouses and pitching hay from horse-drawn wagons and stuff. However, there were a bunch of creepy manikins which was not so cool.
We had a wine-tasting that night and ran to the grocery store again late at night and got a bunch of chocolate to go with our port wine, and a bottle of mead. I didn't really drink much since I wasn't feeling so hot - which I found out today after she left was because I had another freaking bladder infection. Stupid bladder. This one has been so painful I truly thought I had kidney stones or a ruptured something-or-other. Still really hurts even though I've already taken the first pill. So not cool. I was planning on having a cocktail party for my birthday/going away party that's going to be happening next weekend but I'm not sure that's a good idea if I'm just off medication and stuff. *blarg* We'll have to see and maybe plan something else.
Did manage (thanks to Duanag) to get some packing done today. My uncle stopped by since there was a BBQ down where my parents' live since my Grandmother is in town for the next couple of weeks. However, I was pretty sure I needed to go to the doctor instead of a family event so I just filled up his car with a couch and some boxes and went on my merry way.
Just watched Dr Horrible's Sing Along Blog which was really good. I'm hoping that I will be able to find it to download it, or just watch it from time to time. I think its only going to be online until tonight before they're taking it down. Its written by Joss Whedon who is awesome personified.
Also got the date and time of my departure - the 28th at 1:30pm. I have what airline I'm flying out of so I can call tomorrow and get Zoe all squared away and have that to not worry about anymore. I can't believe that I leave in under 8 days. Its really kind of crazy. Its beginning to look like I'm moving now - especially since I'm missing a lot of furniture. Still have a fair amount left to do, and taking a bunch of antibiotics aren't going to help the motivation factor, but I'll persevere. At least now I know why I've been so freaking tired lately. I was probably trying to fend it off - obviously failing miserably however.
Think that's it for me. I'm really hoping that this new program to RIP DVDs isn't going to putz out on me since I have a lot of space on my hard drive and I would love to not be required to bring a lot of DVDs with me.
OWA