Love all around!

[animeartistjo]

Hope everyone online had a wonderful Christmas and is still feeling the holiday cheer!

Over in Korea, a group of friends in my area (Gil-dong in Gangdong-gu) arranged a potluck and a Yankee Swap. On Christmas Eve, I watched Gremlins and Die Hard 1 with a few friends in my officetel. John McClane's reputation is deserved and I felt more stupid people should've died in the other movie. My Christmas morning went like this:

• 3:oo am - go to sleep


• 11:00 am - wake up XD


• 12:30 pm - hop onto subway


• 1:00 pm - after one transfer, arrive at Costco


• 1:00 pm ~ 2:00 pm - Wait 30 mins for 2 rotisserie chickens, hunt down the marshmallows so a friend could make her candied yams, and grab 4 bottles of sparkling cider. As this is Korea, everything ended up 37,000 won, and the marshmallows were the most expensive


• 2:30 pm - drop off foodstuffs, grab my gift for the Swap


• 2:45 pm - open the cider, relax/convo/games/carols with good friends

The next day was Christmas for the West Coast in the States, so I Skyped home and ended up watching presents get opened, spoke the most Chinese I'd ever spoken in 5 years with my grandparents, and enviously watched my sister eat three kinds of dessert. It was roughly 4 hours and for the family Christmas picture, my sister held her laptop up while I looked a the camera through my laptop camera and smiled hard enough for my cheeks to hurt. Who needs care packages when it's obvious I'm loved? <3

The next day, I found out my friend who I was going to spend my vacation in Tokyo from Jan 22~ Feb 2 with had to use her vacation funds for a family emergency and would not be going with me. Still ridiculously happy, but now worrying a bit how I might navigate the Tokyo subway by myself. XD

Merry Christmas everyone, and have a Happy New Year!

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[darkestnight12.livejournal.com]

YOU CAN DO IT SIS! Ask Aunt L for tips and OMG, now everything can be about FOOD! ;DD Just listen to the Japanese announcements and when you hear stuff of interest like, "Harajuku," or "Akihabara," or I dunno, "Shinjuku" just leap off! Most important thing is to remember your original stop so you can get back to your place of staying. XD