Ready or not, here I come...

 I am sitting in Seoul, South Korea.  I have been traveling for a bit of time now...since early morning Wednesday.  My eyes are tired, but they don't want to rest.  There is so much new to see, and take in.  I have spent the last four months getting medically examined, immunized, packing, eating plenty of snow cones, and saying goodbye.  

I don't think the idea of it all really even became real until after I was on my first plane...but this is it.  It is not a vacation.  I am not returning in 2-3 weeks.  It is real now.

The journey has begun with staging in Washington dc, where I got to meet the other 45 members of the Mongolian program leaving this year.   We come from all across the US, from Florida, Alaska, and all the places in between.  We discussed our worries, our aspirations, and those special items we have all stashed in our suitcases.  We started our physical journey at 4am, heading to the airport to begin time traveling.  We flew straight over the world, over Canada and northward, heading down over the snowy mountains of Russia to South Korea...not a bad way to spend your day, if you ask me.  If you do ask me however, I honestly have no clue what day it is, or even what time it is.  No one ever said time travel was easy!

I m about to board the plane to the new place I will call home, and I still don't even quite know what to expect, aside from more immunizations and paperwork of course.  Good thing I packed my optimism!