What. A. Day

Wow. What a day. On Friday morning, after very little sleep, 2.5hrs to be precise, I said my very emotional goodbyes to my apartment and Sinjeong-dong- the area of Seoul that has been "home" for the past two years and I headed to Incheon International Airport for the penultimate time. (This was my practise trial in preparation for when I really leave next time.) Of course nothing ever seems to go smoothly for me so I arrived in my already highly emotional and sleep-deprived state to find yet another nightmare awaiting me. Come on, have I not been put through the ringer enough in the last two weeks?! Apparently not. *sigh*

I'd accidentally forgotten to print out my flight ticket out of HK and the airline wouldn't let me fly without it. So I ended up going on a wild goose chase around the airport to try and print out said ticket which left me with only five minutes to make the flight in the end which, after such little sleep the night before and and lots of sleepless nights for the week and a half leading up to my departure, seemed like the longest flight I have ever experienced despite it only being three and a half hours.

Luckily everything after that was plain sailing. I arrived and went through the procedures at Hong Kong International Airpot without problems, I managed to purchase my Octopus travel card, take the airport express train to central station, meet up and have lunch and coffees with Wendy and afterwards make my way to Sally's school to meet her before making our way back to her apartment for a lovely little dinner party with her friends and lots of wine.

After a very tiring, stressful and emotional start to my day where I closed the door on one part of my life, it progressed nicely into a great first day of the big adventure and the beginning of an exciting new chapter of my life. A sign, I think, of the amazing couple of months I have ahead of me. :)