Day 543: korea...?

i found out that if (a) you’re vaccinated and (b) you’re visiting family (parents, grandparents, or children), you can go to korea and be exempt from the 14-day quarantine

!!!

this is a game changer because i’ve been talking about going to korea since the end of last year and i can actually make it happen without paying $2000+ to stay in some random government facility for two weeks while guzzling huel all day long

tbh though, that doesn’t sound too bad and i was mad productive during my taiwan quarantine so maybe it’d be helpful?

why korea appeals to me:

• my grandpa on my dead mom’s side is there and he’s getting pretty frail so i wanna see him

  • the last time i saw him was in 2017 and he said very matter-of-factly that it’d probably be our final time seeing each other. i told him nope and i intend to keep my word

• i wanna get better at korean so i can talk to my parents without feeling like a dum boi and feeling frustrated because i can’t say what i want to say

• lucas is there

• i wanna try living amongst ~ my ppl ~

the only challenge with going to korea is that in order to get the exemption, i need to present a “family relation certificate” that’s been issued in the last 3 months to prove that i’m related to my family member residing in korea. i have no idea what that is or how that works

so tentative plan, assuming the above doesn’t wreck me:

• stay in sf for a week or so

  • i’ll finally get to overlap with alice yay

• go to vegas and hang out with red door crew for a week

• go back to socal, pack, and hang out with parents, grandpa, kevin, and kate for a few days

• KOREA until october

• come back and get a dope place with shiva / find a gr8 community

  • or maybe the rest of asia will have opened by then and i’ll get everyone to go to japan with me
  • oh wait i have tickets for edc in october

• wow and then it’ll be 2022

  • huh
  • time is flying by
  • and then i’ll be 29
  • and then 30
  • and then ded
  • ~ return to the void ~