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Reviving the blog!

Hey everyone!

I am reviving the blog with a different title and username. I realize that I didn't write much in my last exchange and why waste a perfectly good website by making a new blog when I have one made already? Therefore this blog will be forever be my either exchange/overseas adventures. As long as I am still in school, I feel like I will be embracing any and every exchange opportunity I can get!
So this time, I will be leaving for South Korea. In particularly Seoul. This time it will be a university exchange and I will be gone for year. At first I applied, thinking I wouldn't get accepted. Really to be honest, I am only a second year student and I am competing agains other third or fourth year students who really want to embark on an exchange. However, I did get in and now I am only 7 days away from my departure from Vancouver Airport.
Unlike my exchange to Japan, this time, because I am a university student (meaning slightly older), all the process and details are up to me to handle. So from the handling with the VISA's, applying to the university abroad all the way to transfer credits between courses and many other details.
As I read back to my entries while I was in Japan, I realize I wasn't as helpful or detailed when it comes to documenting and explaining my experience as I didn't update as often. I will update this a lot more frequently as this time I will be bringing my own laptop. From time to time I will post up a video or a vlog when I am lazy to write. 
Right now I am still in Canada but this is more like an intro post to what is going to happen soon and to look forward to it. When the sun is up and when I have time and sleep, I will talk about the process as a university exchange student. What needs to be done or researched. As I feel like my blog might help other university students who are thinking on going on an exchange someday.
So therefore, bookmark this blog and look forward to future posts.
I am super excited yet nervous about this journey to Seoul but I will embrace it with the same spirit as when I went to Japan. (^0^)b

Until closer to the departure date.

karmie

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