As most of you know, I am here in the Philippines spending the holidays with my family. I was looking forward to all the fun I was going to have when I got home, but the preparation before hand was anything but fun. First of all for some weird reason some of my professors decided that my essays would be due four days before Christmas. So I had make sure I was all packed, getting the stuff I wasn't taking with me to my Aunt's house, hang out with friends that I won't be able to see in the next few months and run small errands like mailing a package and returning a book I borrowed at the library. Well as the days came closer I didn't feel like I had any sort of deadlines but enjoyed each min. So a day before I had to leave I freaked out knowing that I had an essay due at midnight, I wasn't fully packed yet, and hadn't run all the errands that I meant to do before the day I left. I was starting to count the mins till making sure every min counted when writing my essay. But then my friend from Egypt called who so happened to be in Korea and wanted to hang out. I told her I was leaving the next day, so we had to hang out before I left. The schedule that I planned out in my head was changed in an instant and I have to figure out how to do everything I needed to do before I had to get on a plane later that night. The first thing I had to do was get some of the stuff I had in my room that I wasn't taking, to my Aunt's house. So I got most of the stuff packed and took a cab to another city. It took about an hour to get there cuz of the traffic which made me pretty disappointed cuz of how big the taxi fee was, but then I just let it go cuz I had bigger things in mind. So I got to my aunt's house then dropped off all my stuff. I was soo glad not having to carry all those clothes and baskets along with me. But I didn't have much time to feeling satisfied with not having to carry around luggage cuz when I looked at my watch it was almost time to meet my friend Yuna from Egypt! We had planned to meet near my university and I wasn't even on the subway heading towards it. So I rushed to get back, thankfully only to hear that she wasn't anywhere near yet. So I decided to leave take my suitcase back home and just come back to the station. She got there about the time I was heading back so we had dinner with her cousin. It was great having a piece of Egypt back! It felt like home somehow. Well to make things more complicated I wanted to hang out with some of my friends and a professor too. But it was almost 8 o'clock and I haven't looked at my essay in days. So after taking Yuna and her cousin to the station I ran to the place my friends and a professor was hanging out just to say hi then ran back home to start working on my essay. By the grace of God I was able to finish it and edit it all in an hour and a half giving me time to hang out with some of my friends I wouldn't be able to see for the next two months. That ended my crazy day before leaving for home but it was just the beginning of my oh so stressful yet amazing day.
In the morning of my departure I was still not packed. My room was STILL full of stuff everywhere. I had no idea how to be able to pack everything and still have breakfast, lunch, and dinner with different friends at the same time run errands in between. Thankfully my friend Amy called asking if I needed help. She was a tremendous help in the whole packing process and was willing to take in all my books and a few of my things too! The process was soo fast that I was able to go and have breakfast with my other friends! I enjoyed breakfast with my friends then went to the library to return my book then headed off for lunch with my girls! :D It was the last time for the year 2010 that we would be able to have lunch together like that, and I enjoyed every min. of it. After lunch I had to go back home and give Amy the rest of my stuff that she wasn't able to get the first time and head to the post office to mail a package. But the lines at the post office were long! I felt like it would be impossible to get a few more things for my family and pack it and have dinner with Jisu. I kept praying asking for a miracle for the lines to go faster but it was no use…it felt like a min was an hour. But by the Grace of God someone from my Christian fellowship found me and said "hi". I couldn't recognize her but she knew me, and told me we were in the same fellowship. I said hi back and apologized for not recognizing her, and told her my situation. She was willing to help out and wait in line to send my package for me. I was sooo thankful! I couldn't believe how amazingly God works! Then I headed home and Jisu called and helped me repack, it totally saved a lot of space in my luggage! Then we had dinner and it was almost time to go. I kept thanking her cuz she was willing to help me through all that and took a few of my things too cuz I didn't have enough space in my luggage. She even helped me to the bus carrying my heavy bags! Thanks Jisu! :) Then when I got to the airport I seriously couldn't find my gate number I was soo lost and confused, but by the grace of God a few nice people told me where to go when I asked them. I apparently was standing in the wrong line though sooo I waited an hour later until someone told me that wasn't the right line. My flight was leaving soon and I was getting all panicey. Only to find out I had excess language by like 12kg! Thankfully I had money but it wasn't enough. I had no other choice but to beg someone for money. Thankfully by the Grace of God a nice man was willing to give me 20 bucks to help cover it. At this point I was soo stressed out and exhausted, both physically and mentally. I kept praying through the whole process asking God each step of the way to guide me. And He did. I remember asking Him why I had to go through soo much even to the very last day of my stay in Korea and all I heard Him say that even till the very last moment He wanted me to rely on Him. Cuz when I go back home I'll be relying on my parents for my money, and a lot of other things instead of God. I knew it was going to be different and I'd be more comfortable. But despite all the crazy things that happened in my travels I am glad God made me go through it, cuz it was a great reminder on relying on Him till the very last min.
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