Dear Travel Journal,Only 26 days until I go to South Korea! Yaaaay! I got my second check today and can proudly say that I am keeping it! All week I have been debating with myself whether to spend some of it or not and when I got my money I decided that I don't need ddr in order to lose weight.I talked to my mommy on the phone today for quite a while. Among other things, I talked to her about my trip and my money problems. She explained that they wished they ...

Dear Travel Journal, There are now 27 days until I go to South Korea! My excitement is mounting each day and so are my nerves.In order to get some extra money, I am doing some drawings for Amy and Lee, and also I am selling my charcoal drawings to dad. Mom says that she is getting paid the day I leave and should be able to give me $200 for the trip. ....I feel really bad that my grandma is paying for so much...Right now I am struggling with whether to use some of...

Dear Travel Journal,Yesterday was really the first day that my dad and mom began to show real interest in my trip to South Korea. I showed them my itinerary and we were talking about it for a little bit. I don't think they realized that I was actually going to be going!I misplaced my passport and pretty much freaked out. My grandma told me not to carry it around in my purse so I took it out and lost it. I don't know who picked it up and moved it, but afte...

Dear Travel Journal,There's 28 days until my trip to South Korea! I am so excited!! I am so lucky to be able to go~!I have a Korean friend named Jee Soo and she was an exchange student and is now going to college here. One day while shopping, I mentioned that I was trying to go to Japan as an exchange student but that it cost almost $10,000! And so that was when she offered to let me stay at her house in South Korea for a couple weeks! Since all I would have ...