[ep.150] Wrapping up, moving out, graduation, sendoffs | The Last Fulbright Korea ETA VLOG

I spent my entire late twenties living in Mokpo… I’m so lucky to have had so many great experiences and met so many wonderful people. Thank you so much for being a part of my journey. It’s the end of an era. 🥹
It was so nice of my host family to invite me over for a goodbye dinner. I can’t believe it’s already been 2.5 years since I’ve seen the rest of the family? Before the dinner, I was feeling really depressed about leaving Korea and having so many different thoughts and worries about upcoming big life changes, but after having dinner together at their place and just chatting for two hours, but heart suddenly felt more at ease. I think it was just being in their vicinity and enjoying their family dynamics. I don’t know why but being with them somehow brought more peace to my heart and stopped my spiraling emotions (for now at least haha). And I don’t recall ever having that happen to me before (spiraling emotions and then suddenly peace). It’s nice that I got to meet them during the start and end of my life in Mokpo. And on the car ride home, I was asking one of my host sisters if she was nervous about starting a new college, and she said that there are good people everywhere and it is what it is, and I think I really need to remember that haha! Let’s meet again someday!
OMG I cried soooo much the day of graduation. I was okay at the graduation ceremony, but then LWS Teacher gave me a surprise gift… the last two weeks of school, he had all of his classes write letters to me and reading them made me cry (and laugh) all afternoon. I seriously felt soooo sad about how it’ll be difficult to see my students in the future… and even if we did see each other, it wouldn’t be the same as playing games in class or sports together after-school. 😭 They are so sweet omg my heart can’t handle this. I know it’ll get better with time but now I am feeling so sad! And then I was thinking about how when I was in high school I didn’t feel THIS sad about leaving my teachers haha and I thought to myself how to my students, I’m just one of the teachers that they see for only an hour once a week, but to me the students are my entire work life so they have a much bigger impact. But from some of the letters, it really seemed like I had a big impact on them too. 😭😭😭 Makes me so sad that I can’t be there for them in person anymore, even though at the time I didn’t even know how big of an impact I was having. So many feelings omg. Well… I must have been really happy with them and made lots of good memories if I’m feeling this sad about leaving. I love them so much. 🥺
And then 희연쌤 prepared the surprise video compilation for me and I cried while watching it too ahhhhh I am so lucky! This has been a really great sendoff. Hanging out with Joseph and 란희쌤 was also soooo nice. Also so happy that I’ve been able to do a lot more flying yoga classes before I leave and that my sweet yoga teacher keeps inviting me to hangout and eat. 🫶🏻
OMG having dinner with some of my students that graduated last year was sooooo much fun! I was also surprised at how on time they were LOL I arrived a bit early but almost all of them were already there. I was worried that it would be awkward a they wouldn’t have a good time, but it ended up being soooo much fun!! I was so happy when they said they wanted to see me before I leave Korea/before they go to the military service, and that they also were down to go to the photobooth and wanted to go to noraebang afterwords! Of course, they were all SO GOOD at singing and I was so off key but they were still cheering and hyping me up. How are they all so sweet?! 🥹💜
So sad to be saying goodbye to all my friends and Fulbright friends as well! But not super sad because it feels like we can meet again more easily. Thank you so much Julia and Connor for hosting me and hanging out with me. I really hope we can have a reunion in the future!
Thanks so much for watching this 3 year series!
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0:00 Dinner with host family
0:19 Graduation
1:13 Flying yoga + packing + sendoff meals
5:01 Dinner with former students
7:48 More send offs + flying yoga
11:17 Last night in my apartment
12:10 One-room apartment tour
14:15 Moving out
14:33 Seoul with Julia & Daniel & Connor
20:04 Julia’s painting studio
21:16 Seasonal tea course
23:25 Baking cookies
25:00 The end
25:22 Graduation
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