Where I've been....

WELL...funny how I made this blog and COMPLETELY forgot it existed!!

Ok...so update in 100 words or less. GO

Was in Korea. Had to rush home due to a family emergency. :( Flew into Vancouver and spent time there. Came home to Tdot via Via rail. Wicked trip. Then went to Durban South Africa. Stayed with the BF for almost 5 months. Fun times filled with love, scuba diving, and skiing in Africa. Came home. Broke up with BF :( Became a snow school director. CRAZIEST. JOB. EVER.  Decided instead of quitting to go on a month long ski trip to Revelstoke BC. Met up with the Kingissepp family. LOVE them! Now relaxing for the summer trying to figure out my next step.

Pheww did I make that in 100 words or less?? Well 102....it was close.

It's funny how you think that one day the skies will open up and you will have it all figured out. I don't think it actually happens that way. I think it's a constant process of self discovery. You may one day wake up to realize the things you once thought were important aren't and that there are things vital to life that at one point were not even on your radar.

I do know more about myself now after having been in Korea. It was a hard experience but one I would not change. It also opened up the door of travel for me and now I know my life as I know it will never be the same. There is something so freeing living out of a backpack just following your heart and seeing things you've only ever seen pictures of and read about. There is still so much more to see!!

I do know this...I want the life less traveled and not the traditional path set out by our parents. I yearn for adventure and change....or maybe that's just my undiagnosed ADD kicking in!!


Do not follow where the path may lead.  Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

World Diabetes Day - November 14th

SO today around the world is world diabetes day and I am in South Korea. At home in Canada I know more than a few peeps with Betes but here I am the only injectable soul....or should I say pumper. While I will be wearing blue and telling anyone that speaks English why I am wearing a nice blue sweater, there is NOTHING going on in this city for the day. At least, not that I have been able to find out in English. If I could read Korean I might have found something but it seems that Koreans are about hiding their differences from the rest of society. I was once shopping in the underground of Busan and happened to spot some pump tubing on a Korean woman. Being me and ridiculously comfortable with my betes I ran up to her and shoved my pump in her face. She was mortified and then I had to get my Korean friend to translate to her that she was the first other person in Korean who I had seen with diabetes and a pump at that. Apparently I was the first ever other person she had ever seen with a pump. WOW I thought...in a city of 5 million people I was the first ever pumper she had met. Strange and sad. She also did not want to discuss it further with me. Well at least I know I'm not the only one in the city!!

SO today I am thinking of my friends at home and wishing I could join them in the activities they have planned all around the city. Have a great time celebrating your friendship and your community!

First ever......

Well this is my first ever blog and my first ever post. SO much pressure to make it entertaining and engaging!! LOL

Here goes....

You've read the title and hopefully you've guessed that this blog (in part) is about diabetes, or more accurately living with diabetes. I am in my 30's living in South Korea teaching English and this October will be my 20th anniversary living with type 1. SO that's it. Diabetes, travel, and general life of a 30 something year still trying to figure it all out!