Yesterday ( Read more... )

( Decided to de-junk my room. Getting closer and closer to having only what I need and use. )

All the things I've been doing lately are seeming to converge together in some way. Of course, that's incredibly vague, so let me explain ( Read more... )

I have become even more interested in Japan now that I'm separated from it in my daily life ( Read more... )

I had quite a day today... composed of nothing more than going to the grocery store and the bookstore. I finished The Complete Idiot's Guide to Zen Living yesterday and lately have been working on living my everyday life in a more Zenlike way. Obviously, I'm still new at this, so I'm a long way off, but I have noticed that I've been able to make ( Read more... )

Alright, I'm home. I've been home for a week and a half now. It's hard to get used to calling this place in the Middle of Nowhere, Florida, my "home," since my home home has already been sold and taken over by new owners, but that's alright, I guess. My new house is nice. Spacey room ( Read more... )

Even better: I found out from the site I posted yesterday that there is an F-4 visa available especially for Korean adoptees. It allows you to stay in Korea for up to two years, for work, study, play, anything - which means you don't have to secure a job or anything beforehand - and then you can renew it without having to leave the country. All you ( Read more... )

Who knows, I might be able to find my birth parents after all. On a side note, I went to the IECEF site and they also have a program (like Japan's JET program) where you can live and teach English in Korea, open to anyone and especially Korean adoptees. Interesting.

Well, I take back what I said before about not really liking Japan. I actually do like Japan, especially Kyoto, and there are definitely a lot of things I'll miss. But it's just hard for me to enjoy Japan as much as I'd like to with all the crap I've been through with my host families. I can hardly even begin to imagine how much different this year ( Read more... )

My favorite kanji:　永
Eternal. Also my first name in Korean.

My favorite Japanese word: 無為自然 - mui shizen
The Taoist principle of wu wei, or action by non-action. Let nature run its course; the more you interfere, the more things go wrong. Amazing things happen by chance, when you think about it; life is made up of nothing but chance, after all.