Katie's Wandering Seoul

Well I finally made my way to Japan for Chuseok.  I've been in Asia for a year and a half now, and Japan has always been on my list of countries to go to (since I was just a little one, all thanks to my old man).  Chuseok is Korea's Thanksgiving basically, so we had a long weekend.  It was something we had planned all the way back in about April, and talked about since this time last year.  The hard decision was deciding between Osaka and Tokyo (life is rough over here I know!).  In the end we chose Osaka though! I booked my flight with Helen (this was our third trip together since coming to Korea).  We went up to Seoul early on Wednesday, had a delicious South African meal, a couple glasses of wine (which almost cost us our flight), and a run yes literally a run through the subway and the airport.  We arrived in Osaka about 11pm Wednesday night, which only meant 1 thing, more running to catch the very last train into the city.  Thank god we met...

I am now 25 years old and I know that some people at my age have lost a friend or two in some tragic way.  In that sense I guess I have been fairly lucky.  However, September 1 that all unfortunately had to come to an end. It was a weekend that I had been looking forward to all week (I mean I always look forward to the weekends), but this one was just supposed to be a more relaxed on and a little futsol on Sunday.  Sunday morning I made my way to Sangju, had lunch and coffee with Beth.  I noticed a couple people had changed their profile picture to one of my friends that just recently moved to Poland to be with her boyfriend.  Now I assumed she was engaged or something, I never in a million years assumed the worst.  As Beth went to the bathroom I got on facebook again and this is when I saw the single little note saying 'RIP Kelly'.  I think at this moment my heart completely stopped, and I know I wasn't able to breathe for a little while.  I f...

Alright...so it has been quite some time since I have made a post on here!  I feel that I have so much that I could write about.  However, instead of boring you with and update on everything going on in my life I will take a little time to write about Bali (since it happened back in August), and I will write about Japan a little bit later. Mango smoothies and Indonesian money My trip to Bali started out like so many of my other trips bus/train it up to Seoul, take the subway into the airport, exchange our money, and go through the usual check in routine of flying.  However this time I did at least have 3 of my friends there with me on this flight. We had about a 5-6 hour layover in Manila, which I have decided is the worlds worst airport ever. We get off our 4 hour flight with a lady waiting for us off to the side.  She proceeds to tell us she will take us to check in for our next flight since the computers were down.  Two of the girls went and got their ...