Moving to Guro

I found a new school.

To be honest, I was hesitating between two schools that I both appreciated greatly, and whom both would have liked to have me start as soon as possible. I even had to write out positive things that could be compared from one school to another, with things that were different for both places, to set my mind up...

It was hard.

But I am greatly happy that I chose this school. Even if I am still living in the dread of the getting adjusted to the new school thing. As I am a bit of a control freak, I need to live in an environment that is 'under control' to put myself at ease to try learning things anew: I know that in this school I will have a lot to learn, and I will mostly be rushing through learning/teaching/getting adjusted in a very short period of time and have the stress of being effective and loving at the same time. 

If I want to handle this stress, where I can't control anything, as I am not used to the place and will need to learn tons, I will need a haven of peace, where I can loosen out and be at peace: home.

So I have gone to take a look at my new to-be-apartment. Ideally, just to tidy things up, but realistically, to clean it up my way before I move all my things.

Good thing I went ahead with that great idea.

The girl that lived there, did not live by the same standard of "clean" and "nice" home as I do, to say the least. Now I am not one to fret with details (well that's a lie, but wtv) but I decided to focus on what is positive for now. 

As I was scrubbing the kitchen and separating what foods were past due date and what foods were to be kept, I fell across a few bags of Quakers Oatmeal morning sets: BLISS! 

Did you have those before? I love my oatmeal in the morning but hadn't had had it in years. Trying a better diet since the new year, I had discovered the good of oatmeal for the system, and had been craving it (you see, in Korea, they generally sell oat in whole grains instead of flattened ones, so the way to cook and eat it is much more bothersome for lazy me) for weeks at that point. That discovery made my day a happy day indeed. I had been at cleaning all afternoon and felt like Snow White cleaning the dwarves' mess and finding some treasure to cook for dinner.

Found a nice red ribbon while cleaning and did it legit Snow White style.

 So I cleaned and the next morning, I had an amazing breakfast. I also found, looking quickly in the fridge (I didn't get to scrub it yet so dunno how much of what's in it is still edible, but it looked just fine except the I-need-some-cleaning part), a yogurt carton that tasted exactly like Yoplait! from my youth. Man I loved those liquid yogurt fruit drinks. It appears that Korea and Denmark have been in on this yogurt tag-team for quite a while, making the same exact drinks but in cartons, instead of the plastic bottles we had in Canada.

Because I am good on positivism, I'll add that the girl left some clothes in a basket that she did not want and I found some 10 ish pieces of clothing that I really liked in the lot: free clothes! That should help me try not to shop in the coming few weeks.

Slept with those on and wore them today, as my encouragement to my peeps back
in Quebec, that have had a never-ending winter this year.

Today I had a haircut for the first time in a year! Yay!

Actually I am growing my hair so I usually avoid hairdressers like plea, but meh... my split ends were growing so high up that they were risking to damage the good part of my hair. So I chose to cut. They look much shorter because I asked the lady to make it a straight cut, but she actually did not really cut them much. They will be in much better shape (they already are) with this and it makes me blissful. My hair was long enough so I could afford cutting it without feeling like my growing it up had been a waste. Took me a long time to grow them past "porn-star" length but what was down was so dead that it was best to cut it out. Now back to porn-star length but they will grow faster than before so I'm not too worried. 

I have been seeing so many high schoolers with their perfectly straight lines of long dark hair and I was getting jealous of their perfect lines and non-splitted ends so that's the cut I asked for. And so far I love it.

Two weeks ago - keep in mind I am leaning over
so they appear longer too. Notice how the end is
so thin that there's no thickness at the tip? All of
it was split 3, 4, 5, and sometimes 6 times for each
single strand of hair. Messy messy....

Standing straight on this picture so we see the real length,
but not that the hairdresser slightly curled the end as she
blow dried it. 

See how it now all has the same length? From now on, as it grows, the end will be thick and it'll feel longer than before even when it will reach back to the length it was before.