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I don’t have a car but I can use my dad’s car all the time. This makes it super convenient to go to battles that are far away and it means that I can often go to different cities to practice. Having a car is really convenient and I feel like it is a great way to connect with dancers from across the country.
When I was still living in Korea and I already joined the Popping team, our team leader asked to go to Thailand with him for a vacation. Of course, I agreed. I normally like to have complete control over the vacation. I plan everything myself and I just go where I want to go in the morning. My Thailand vacation was not like that AT ALL. We had a completely planned through tour. Every day was completely planned from breakfast till dinner.
I never imagined myself enjoying a vacation like that but it was actually a lot of fun. It was very stress free and we were able to see a lot of stuff. I don’t think that I will do a vacation like that again in the near future but it was still a great experience.
When I came to Korea as an exchange student, I didn’t know anybody. It wasn’t my first time to travel but it was my first time to move out. I wasn’t scared, though. I was excited and hopeful. I was able to completely redefine who I am. I would make a ton of new friends and live an exciting life.
However, the first few weeks were not very smooth. I did not have a lot of contact with the other exchange students because I missed the initial meeting with everybody. I also didn’t manage to make friends with the Korean students. I was too anxious to talk with them.
I was a little bit disappointed. This was not how this was supposed to go and every day that passed was one more day closer to going home again. Going home without having any kind of adventure. Then I saw the booth of the street dance club of our university.
I wanted to go there so badly. This was exactly what I needed. The first few times, I was too scared to talk with them. But on the last day they had the booth set up, I pulled myself together and just talked to them. I put my name in the list of interested people and I was hopeful again that everything would become great.
This is just a little rant because I have to pay way too much for public transportation. I used to have a student ticket that was really cheap and could be used in a really wide area. Now I am not a student anymore and I have to get a regular ticket. It is ridiculous. Even though I don’t make more money, I have to pay six times as much for my ticket and I cannot even use it in the same area. I am paying this much money and I still had to miss a dance event yesterday because my ticket would not have been able to get me there.
I want to start traveling again. I haven’t been really traveling for over a year already and I miss it so much. A few years ago, I would go travel when ever I had the time. I didn’t care about the money or my free time. It was natural that when I had the time, I would go somewhere. Now it is different. I am more responsible for what happens with my life. I have different friends and I am in a different community. I am worrying a lot more about how I use my time and who I use it with. I am also nervous about money and supporting myself. All of this means that I really cannot travel right now. I want to go so badly, but I will have to wait a while longer.
I love traveling alone and I have constantly been doing that since I was 18. As a result, I have a lot of foreign friends or acquaintances. Every time I get close to somebody, I tell myself that I will go visit them again and that we will stay in contact. However, so far it never happened like I wanted it to. I just cannot get the same kind of connection through the Internet. It is not like I don’t care about them anymore, but the friends I can actually meet and see and touch are just going to be more important.