Waning time

Saturday...
I leave for Korea on Wednesday of next week, but head down to Dallas on Tuesday because my flight is at 7am on Wednesday.

These two weeks I have been in Oklahoma have flown by. Getting together with family and helping them out, running around getting and buying stuff getting ready for Korea... all of my plans of getting together with friends have fallen by the wayside. Circumstances in everybody's lives have made this goal near impossible. I was planning on going to Stillwater, Tulsa, and just hitting up the OKC. Nope... Time has really gone much faster than I was planning.

I guess it is fair to say I am starting to get a little nervous. Not really about the move... it is more the little things that are getting me. Things like getting all of my luggage in my suitcases, taking the bus after I land in Korea with my suitcases. Not having time to adapt to the time difference. Feeling I am forgetting something. Normally the rear of forgetting something is not that huge... everywhere I have traveled, there are always stores to get everything. In Korea there are many stores in which to get everything too... My fear is the fact I am a 6'3" guy with a little meat on my bones in a country where the average male height is 5'8" and skinny. Everyone says that it is near impossible to find clothes my size. Heck, in the US, getting decent clothes my size is not the easiest task. I went shoe shopping yesterday because I have one pair of shoes that have holes in them. A lot of stores have 1 or 2 pair... and that doesnt help if I am looking for something specific. Finding shirts sucks too. I have a thick neck- but the only shirts that have large enough necks are also fit me like a dress. It either fits my body and not neck, or neck and then catches the wind. From everything everyone tells me, my selection in Seoul will be far more limited then the limited selection I have not. That is my biggest nerve hitter right now.

I am not that worried about adapting or making friends... I am a pretty outgoing but very chill person. I am good at rolling with the punches and not letting much get under my skin. I got that yearning and sense of adventure... I know it may take a little while to get into the grove of Korea... but I see it as how it took time to get into the grove of New York. Every city has it's own pulse and you just have to get the rhythm of the city down.

So much to do... so little time. The clock is ticking.