It's time to go!

This is my last night in the states before a year in Korea. Tomorrow at 9:05am, I take the Whidbey shuttle to Sea-Tac airport. Then to Tokyo (again), then to Busan with Timber, then to Daegu by bus. It's going to be quite a trip, but I'm looking forward to watching 3+ movies on my personal TV on the flight to Tokyo and rice for breakfast. I'm nervous, but mostly excited. It kind of feels like Christmas. It feels like I'm leaving so much here, and I am. At the same time I am looking forward to so much unknown. I hope I can share the new with the now, tomorrow with the yesterday. I hope I can live each moment to it's fullest, I hope I get enough sleep and enough leafy greens, I hope to learn how to be a better acupuncturist, I hope I learn a new language, hope to become a better writer, hope to discover new joys in etymology as I teach little bits the weird language I call home. I have so many dreams for this trip, but also so much grief in knowing that I can't take everyone and everything I love here with me. It's just a year, and it's going to fly by, I just hope I can fit it all in. I have had such a beautiful opportunity to say 'see you later' to all my dearest friends, nothing could have happened more perfectly in the month between China and Korea. But at the same time it makes it all the harder to go. I have never felt such love for so many people, and never felt so loved by so many people. Homecoming is going to be awesome, but now: into bed and onto the plane!