The in-famous Anna line from Frozen is ringing in my ears. Nothing has ever been more true in this exact moment. The sky is awake, and I am in the sky, so obviously I shall be awake.
It’s going to be very long 14 hour flight.
Let me start off by saying that I am functioning on minimal sleep. Three hours to be exact. My fault, well I can’t blame anyone else so yes.
I bought a ticket for South Korea to visit my sister the day before my 24th birthday. She called me saying she had leave coming up and that I should jump on the opportunity to visit this country she has spent the last year in.
Why not? Right?
So the date was set. We were going to spend Halloween together in a foreign country. I had planned to have the entire month of October to prepare.
Thankfully, that was not the case.
I was incredibly fortunate to jump on to, yet another, full time show with a crew that is ver quickly owning my heart.
They are phenomenal. Basically I acquired three brothers (love you Caitlin, but you know it is true), each guiding me in ways I never expected or wanted in the film industry. They have made me fall back in love with my passion and actually look forward to work.
I’ve never once wanted to contact or hang out with anyone from work. I’ve always wanted to separate my personal life and my film life…yet, these goobers have made me want to jump in and share my life, grow and learn from every aspect of their lives.
Anyways, I jumped on the show with them knowing that I would have to leave early to travel to South Korea.
Que Sunday night of the week I leave…
I took Tuesday off because I booked my travel for October 25th. I got a few things accomplished through the weekend…not much. Basically I went flying, had an amazing time at a haunted corn maze and spent Sunday at church before having lunch with my favorite Woodstock family, driving my motorcycle through out the town.
I worked Monday so I made sure I had enough time to fold most of my clothes Sunday night. I had Tuesday. All I needed to do Tuesday was pack, clean and climb…add a flying lesson in and BAM, off to Korea.
Yet, my life doesn’t exactly work that way.
As it’s starting to get closer and closer to bed time, I start looking at my information for LAX and S. Korea. Logistics have never been my strong point…I kind of just go and see what happens. This…absolutely no difference…as hard as I planned for it to be.
Eight O’clock Sunday night and I read that my flight does not leave on Wednesday but on Tuesday.
Surprise!
All of a sudden, everything I needed to do had to happen within three hours.
I called my parents laughing hysterically. If there was a definition of my life, this moment would be it. I misread my flight. Not only had I told everyone that I was leaving on Wednesday, including the person taking me to the airport, but I had also stuffed my weekend so full of so many other things that I HAD to push all of my actual packing to my day off I planned on Tuesday.
Yet, I now had to leave at 4am on Tuesday to make it to the airport.
And Monday, ambitious me, was absolutely positive I could work that extra day on Monday. Which, being optimistic, I still believed I could.
I got all that I could get done on Sunday night to where I could still be useful on my last day at work. We had been working 12 hour days so a 7am to 7pm was not bad at all. Right?
Absolutely not.
Until that didn’t happen.
I didn’t get home until 10pm that night. To which I had to go shopping at walmart for the extra items I had put off. Three hours later, after cleaning, organizing and setting everything up, I jumped in bed.
WAY TOO SOON, it was time to wake up to literally change my day.
I stayed up for 6 hours once I got to the airport convinced I would fall asleep the moment my head hit the pillow.
Obviously, I was wrong. Cause here I am, four hours in and 2800 different sitting positions later, four half watched movie and the beginning season of Friends…and now I am on my iPad typing a random blog because I feel bad that the guy next to me has had to deal with my constant movement.
It’s my fault though.
I have never been able to sit still. Ever. Even movie theatres. I am a constant moving motion that continuously needs to be fed. Which, by the way, I could have eaten three more of those meals they fed us…
Oh and by the way…what is up with the fact that they carb you up? They have this down to a science.
Everyone comes in, it takes about an hour to get settled. Thirty minutes later, everyone has their carb filled, very good, food and are mostly through their two to two and a half hour movie and ready for a nap.
Cabin lights turn lowers and everyone suddenly falls asleep.
I’m not joking about the 340 sleeping positions. Head on tray, head turned on tray. Feet up on back of seat, one foot on back of seat, now butt is asleep so turn other way. Back hurts so head against window. Window and pillow not getting along so sit up, but sitting up not comforatable to back to foot on seat. Drool on pillow and head back against tray.
Right now I have my feet on the tray.
And yet the guy next to me has been a ten out of ten passenger the entire time. He hasn’t spoken a word, has read a book, at his meal and has now fallen asleep to music. BUT FALLEN ASLEEP IN A SEATED POSITION AND HASN’T MOVED.
HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE. I’m contemplating moving right now.
It also doesn’t help that I suck at watching movies. I’ve made it half way through Spider Man and several other shows, finally settling on Frozen, a movie I have seen a million times but am hoping will put me to sleep.
A fourteen hour flight with three hours of sleep in the past 48 hours yet NO SLEEP in sight.
How many times can I watch Frozen without it getting annoying…honestly, I was half hoping for Muana. Summer and Winter. Thank you Disney.
I land in 10 hours now. Kayla picks me up and we jump on a train ride to Busan. Which, you better believe I am going to pass the heck out!
Would it be awkward to fall asleep on this guy’s arm? Is that frowned upon? Honestly he seems like the type of guy who would just accept it because he doesn’t want to be rude…
Oh…and Anna in Frozen is 110% my life. Ever have a question about how I make it in my life or need a documentary about how I live…watch that movie.
OOKKKaaaayyyy, here is too the next ten hours. I’m too tired to study but way to uncomfortable to sleep…I should not be stuck inside a small place for an excessive amount of time…apparently I forgot about that since my trip to Africa.
_____FLIGHT ACCOMPLISHED______
Not entirely sure how. The poor guy next to me was completely annoyed with me by the end of the trip. Lesson learned…I don’t do well in tight spaces or with lack of sleep.
Kayla picked me up outside of customs. Getting my baggage was another entertaining process. Basically, I am not in America and signs are hard. BUT, we were united yet again!
We quickly grabbed a bite to eat and then made our way to a four hour train ride to Busan for the next few days. Kayla bought first class tickets because she felt bad that I was on a plane for fourteen hours. I sat down and thought I would instantly pass out…
Again, running on maybe 5 hours of sleep in 48 hours.
Yet, my body had a different idea. WHO NEEDS SLEEP ANYWAYS?
We made it to Busan relatively quickly. Sadly, not a great view during the trip since it was night BUT waking up to an ocean view is not frowned upon in my books.
OH, and cab drivers here. GOODNESS. They make Atlanta seem calm. It became a bat out of hell situation. Insanity. Honking. All of the Korean food I just ate was about to welcome itself back into the backseat. Between that and the yawning Kayla and I were doing…I’m surprised we got here in one piece and able to communicate with those around us successfully…well, she did. I stayed back and pretended not to be completely illiterate in this country.
But we made it.
Korean bathrooms are amazing! Rainfall showers are heaven! And I am pretty sure we woke up in an IKEA add. Beautiful for sure!
Busan, seeing it lit up at night was stunning. Truly a view that will not get old. Also, waking up and realizing that your room has a view of the ocean is pretty exciting. I’m watching ships go in and out of port from bed.
Last thing I have learned thus far…the food is not what you expect. Like, sweets are not like American sweets. They still taste great but it is completely different than what I think I am about to eat.
Here is to the first day of exploring after 21 hours of traveling.
#TakingHahnKorea
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