American on his way to S. Korea

I'm starting to think Korean now. No, not the language. With everything I do, I am starting to imagine what it will be like in Korea, how I would perform the same acts, what it will look like and feel like. While making dinner just last night, I wondered "will there be StoveTop Stuffing in Korea? Probably not. What will I cook as a side dish instead? Will it be vegetables, some sort of cabbage similar to kimchi?"

Then lying in my bed at night I wondered "My room will be smaller. Probably my bed smaller and maybe my comforter won't be quite as comfortable. I won't be on the second floor of a house in a neighborhood I grew up in, but probably on the 8th floor of an apartment building in a country I've only read about and a city I hadn't heard of a year ago."

These are the kind of thoughts I mean when I say that I'm starting to think Korean.

Right now I'm waiting for my new wheeled duffel bag that I ordered online to arrive in the mail. I've started packing up, and upon it's arrival I will finish packing everything I may need for a year living abroad.

I'm excited about traveling. There are many things that have happened that are reinforcing the idea that I have made a great decision. I look forward to the life to come. Anything will happen...

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