to do list

• 보령 mud festival
• climb 한라산 in 제주도
• beach in 부산
• sensation korea 2012
• 유성 오천 in 대전
• UMF korea with tiesto, steve aoki, skrillex, and carl cox
• party it up in 홍대
• YGF conference

just a couple of things on my to do list for this summer. i'm gonna do everything! T minus 18 days!

tragedy. oh wait! just kidding.

i want to be in a tragic accident that results in me going into a mini-coma where all of my teachers give me A's, i wake up unscathed RIGHT after finals are over, and then i pack and leave for korea. the end.

this is how i feel. lethargic. blarg.

oh yeah. by the way, i'm leaving for korea in three weeks for the whole summer, and i am stoked! haven't been to the motherland in 9 years. i just booked my flight today so everything is becoming all too real. it's really bad actually. i cannot seem to focus on my studies and my lab report due tomorrow. smh at myself. sigh.

i feel different.

last time visiting downtown before i left europe

metz, france, august 2011

i was talking with my circuits lab partner yesterday who has done a fair amount of traveling himself. we were talking about how when we're traveling, we become a totally different person. not in a sense of masking who we really are, but of finding this alternate being within yourself. someone who is capable of so much more than ourselves in our own comfortable homely environments. it's like being in foreign territory brings out the best of me. the more daring, honest, self-starting, diligent, adventurous version of me. i don't know. i've just been thinking since i got back from last summer. a day doesn't go by when i don't look back and yearn to be back in europe. i want to be that person again. i know this is cliché but i really do want to live my life as best as i can without regrets.

paris!

omg omg omg omg omg. our group just booked the hostel for our first weekend 

in europe! we're going to be in paris! can't wait to see the eiffel tower, the louvre, 

champs elysees, notre dame, versailles, arc de triomphe, laduree...37 more days!

live the language

can't wait to be in all three of these cities. been trying to learn french on my own time since i'll be in france most of the time, but learning another language while balancing schoolwork is difficult. at least i got my badass french flashcards, hahaha. getting back into the school grind is so hard when i've been spoiled by spring break. I WANT SUMMER. especially since mine will be well-spent touring all of europe. i can't hold in the excitement.