Farewell Korea – Hello Arctic!
Ahhh in a short few hours, Mandy and I will set out out on a crazy adventure of a lifetime! We will go all the way to Antarctica to ride the back of killer whales and polar bears! We have been training for the past 3 months by diligently going to the local Korean zoo every night and feeding the polar bears. This increased our polar bear karma. We have managed to feed the bears over 1,000pds of Rice and kimchi. We believe that our by the time we get to the Arctic the polars will think that we are brothers er um sister-wives perhaps with them and then they will give us a rides from north to west. Getting to know Killer whales was a bit more of a challenge for us. You see, the Koreans don’t have them in their zoo! I was surprised and frankly disgusted when I heard this. But it has been my dream since I was a wee lass to ride on the back of a Killer so I thought really hard.. For almost an hour! I know, I know.. That’s about as hard as geniuses think! My brain hurt for hours and hours afterward.
My brilliant plan? Well, we watched Free Willy 1,2,3, &4 every night for 3 months absorbing every word and sound made by Willy and his owner, Jesse, we now know the script by heart and will conquer the hearts of all the whales with out graceful whale dances and sweet voices.. And they will bow their heads and let us walk on their backs and ride them through the arctic circle…
okkkkk… so maybe the above is a bit of a lie.. or a lot of one… (Sorry God and Mom) And maybe I’m not going to Antarctica.. but polar bears and lil’ killers are really quite cute, so squeezable, and I would go, but you see I’m an English teacher and therefore have no money to fly all that way.. So sadly all of our hard work was spoiled, and now we must settle for a 3 week trek across Nepal. A trek that consists of eating loads Indian, Nepali, Tibetan food; meeting Sherpaa, kissing llamas, taking too many pictures, asking a Tibetan to be my pen pal, playing rock, paper, scissors till our hands fall off during layovers in China, buying loads of beautiful jewelry and clothes, OHHH and yeah… um climbing 18000 feet upward to see… that mountain — Everest? :D
Ahhhhhh I’m so excited.. I couldn’t even sleep last night.. probably due to the nightmares that I would forget my wallet, passport, get in a knockdown drag-out fight with Mandy, and my beautiful camera would blow up.. 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, —> Boom! Like burnt toast! Done! haha.. so I decided that the sleep wasn’t worth it.. Too scary. I am off to finish the last things on my list…
1) Pack my passport And wallet
2) Make Mandy breakfast in bed
3) Go have a love chat with my camera
4) Fly to Nepal
See you all in a few weeks well via this blog at least :)
Won’t you miss this beautiful face??? huh, huh? Nepal won’t know what hit it!
and you can send your love or hate mail to my friend Juan for capturing this brilliantly accurate depiction of my face. :) You guys miss me, won’t you? kisses and hugs for everyone! :)
