Tag: travel

#45 South Korea & #33 Korean

Guys. I made it. I made it to South Korea. And I loved it so much.

I had the opportunity to go there because one of my best friends moved there last year and I just knew I had to go visit her and use the chance to visit as much of South Korea as I could in my limited time there.

There is so much I want to say about my experience in South Korea, but right now I have no idea how to write a blog post anymore. It has been so long and there are so many goals for me to complete. For now I can say that I have traveled around Seoul and spoken decent Korean that got me by quite well. Unfortunately, my biggest language struggle was accents. As I continue to study Korean I need to focus on understanding people with accents and not perfect crisp language like it is when you are learning and studying a language.

As for my experience in South Korea, specifically Seoul, is that it’s easily one of my favorite places. From the food to the culture to the accessibility to everything around you there. It’s so easy to go from place to place and see so much and do so much. There is just so much to do, that it’s addictive. In my time there I walked nearly 100 miles because I just loved walking around and seeing as much as I could.

Picture Montage!

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#46 Southeast Asia

Ladies and Gentlemen I have been to Southeast Asia and it was absolutely incredible!

My best friend Ashley is currently doing a semester abroad there and when she initially told me she was going to Singapore for school I knew immediately that I would find time to schedule a trip out there to see her and have an excuse to go to Singapore. Thus a few months back I got Sammi (who does all the things with me, so I can’t not have her be my travel companion) to agree to come along with me and we booked flights out there for October 2nd, 2018 to October 23rd, 2018. We also booked a side trip to Vietnam from October 10th to the 15th once we had landed in Singapore.

Boom! Cue photo collage:

Right off the plane and straight to Old Airport Food Centre Hawker
Reunited with my beautiful blonde one
First day in Singapore thought: Let’s take a 11km hike!
Treetop walk
If you are ever in Singapore go to Haw Par Villa
We freaking love Haw Par Villa and we think of it often whenever we see Tiger Balm

Just me taking a stalker pic of my friends strolling through the Botanic Gardens
Landplants Unite (our team name)
Proper cliched photo of me at Marina Bay Sands

Wandering around Old Quarter
Ash got this shirt and after this photo the most ridiculous events of other tourists taking a lot of photos with her
Waiting for egg coffee!
Traffic is super entertaining here
The ideal Vietnamese Night
On our way to Ha Long Bay
Kayaking Ha Long Bay
Imperial Citadel
Market
We took a cooking class and this was the finished product

Lemur just chilling next to us
Sammi pulling off leopard print and me hiding in a corner
This is her leaf. Leave her alone
Playing around with cannons at Fort Canning

 

I have so many more pictures, but I didn’t want to bombard you all, so I just picked a variety of random pics. I’m so grateful I had the time to go spend 3 weeks with my best friends and that we got to spend it in 2 incredible places.

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Master List

The Plan: Have 100 goals completed before I turn 30.

The Goals:

  1. Know over 25 go to healthy recipes
  2. Clear skin
  3. Find a fitness activity to be passionate about
  4. Get to and maintain a 59 kilograms weight
  5. Keep consistent pace on a run
  6. Dance every day for a month
  7. Do another OCR
  8. 20 Mile Hike
  9. 20 Consecutive Push Ups
  10. Learn some yoga
  11. Master a classical piano piece
  12. Make a table top game
  13. Build a game table
  14. Finish a full art journal
  15. Paint a picture
  16. Scrapbook
  17. Learn calligraphy
  18. Bake and Decorate an Eccentric Cake
  19. Learn ballroom dancing
  20. Write a Book
  21. Zorbing
  22. Sky dive
  23. Parasailing/Paragliding
  24. Canyoneering
  25. Learn to Sail
  26. Zip line
  27. Surfing
  28. Scuba Diving
  29. Bungee jump
  30. Backpacking trip
  31. Read 1000 books
  32. Fluent Spanish
  33. Decent Korean
  34. Obscure history
  35. Connoisseur of Tea
  36. Study Business
  37. Art History
  38. Astronomy
  39. Study a Theory
  40. Learn something I have no prior interest in
  41. Puerto Rico
  42. Spain
  43. Italy
  44. Peru
  45. South Korea
  46. Southeast Asia
  47. Greece
  48. Iceland
  49. New Zealand
  50. Road Trip the U.S.
  51. Budget
  52. Savings
  53. Start Investing
  54. 800+ Credit Score
  55. Passive Income
  56. Financial Freedom
  57. Pay off all Debts
  58. Proper Accounting
  59. Start my own business
  60. Own a Home
  61. Gardening
  62. Fly Tying
  63. Cardistry
  64. Survival
  65. Knife Throwing
  66. Leather Craft
  67. Bartending
  68. Fighting
  69. Videography
  70. Beauty
  71. Go Dancing at least twice a month for a year
  72. Monthly Board Game Night
  73. Go out every night for 1 week
  74. Throwback outings
  75. Live music
  76. Make New Friends
  77. Say Yes
  78. Go to Vegas with a Group
  79. Dating
  80. Join a Club
  81. 9 Ball Break and Run
  82. Complete a Dozen Escape Rooms
  83. See a Play on Broadway
  84. Stay in a Haunted Hotel
  85. Fly First Class
  86. Have the best Theme Party
  87. Go to a World Festival
  88. Cook Everything in a Cookbook
  89. Drive an Expensive Sports Car
  90. Teach dog utterly useless trick
  91. Have a Car Chase
  92. Befriend strangers at hotel
  93. Go to a Psychic
  94. Start a dramatic scene from a movie to someone in coffee shop
  95. Return something lost to someone
  96. Have someone tell me their life story
  97. See someone in a bookstore looking at a book and buy it for them
  98. See a shop that is doing some type of class and go sign up for one
  99. Make up a different persona for a day
  100. Attend a fancy affair

Travel

Half way through making this list! It’s slow going, but I’m really trying to put some decent thought into these goals. This was a hard list to narrow down because I really do want to travel as much as possible, so picking the top 10 was quite difficult.

Travel Goals: 

  1. Puerto Rico
    • Not only am I a Puerto Rican that doesn’t speak Spanish, I haven’t even been to the island. Yeah…My mother is very ashamed of me.
  2. Spain
    • Technically I am more Spaniard than Puerto Rican, but that’s where they came from before they immigrated to Puerto Rico. It all kind of blends together. But I have always wanted to go to Spain, not just cause of my own history. The country itself is full of rich history and gorgeous towns.
  3. Italy
    • Everyone says to go to Italy and everyone is obsessed with Italy. Therefore, I must go to Italy.
  4. Peru
    • Machu Picchu here I come.
  5. South Korea
    • Listen if I am learning Korean as my hobby language I better go and use it. I don’t wanna know a language and never use it! Plus, way better to learn and practice it by going there.
  6. Southeast Asia
    • I’m curious about the culture, the food, the beaches, the water, just everything.
  7. Greece
    • The more that I think about it, Greece seems to be calling to me.
  8. Iceland
    • Everything about Iceland looks absolutely stunning and all I wanna do is hike and enjoy everything about the land.
  9. New Zealand
    • Lord of the Rings. Nuff said.
  10. Road Trip the U.S.
    • I’m from Colorado and I’ve been around to other states a little bit, but I really need to go out more. I’ve only been to like 5 states.