Otherworldly-Bubble

So today is the first day I publicize my blog to the world. I have compiled some of my stories and thoughts from Korea up to this point. I continue to adjust further and find both negatives and positives from my experiences here. I have been running more as of late and that has been really freeing for me. I have never felt running was enjoyable until now. There is something totally liberating to get out of the school and just start running under the deep blue sky with a cool breeze on my face. It is usually getting dark by the time I get out, but I feel really safe in Korea, so I get the benefit of the evening cool, with the safety of day. I have been running to Sigur Ros, which is another surprise to me. I never took that as my kind of running music, I have always been about the high energy, whether it was Autumn to Ashes, or M.I.A and The Ting Tings. However, there is something so trippy and otherworldly about running under the Korean sky. I constantly keep shaking my head and saying to myself 'Katelyn, you are in Fricken Korea!'. Everyone says this doesn't go away the whole year you are here. But, it feels kinda like a drug trip, everything is so different and feels 'otherworldly', like you are looking at life through a bubble.

So, not to give the impression that I am on a countdown or anything, but i realized the other day that I have only 48 more weekends in Korea. So weird! I know I just got here, but when I think of it that way, it really seems so short, and I am reminded that I really need to live in the present. I can't live for the weekends, or life will just be over to quickly. I will live for only 48 days, which is a jip from a whole life. I keep thinking back to the words of those old men I spoke to under the Regent bridge. "Live life, don't get old." That is my plan. So I am slowing down life and acknowledging even the minor moments as equal moments on the great scale of existence.

Hope existence is treating you well.