Ambition

It feels like it was only yesterday that studying abroad in South Korea sparked our interest, fast forward a year and we’re only 7 days away from embarking on what we know will be a life changing experience.  Time has flown by, but the process has not been an easy one, from choosing a study abroad program and/or a university that we felt would suite us the best to obtaining a student visa. Although we somewhat expected study abroad to be a challenging process we never fully realized just all that it entailed. Although it can be an overwhelming process we have come to believe as we get closer to the date that it has all been worth it and we’re positive that we will feel even more strongly about it once we are physically there. We were planning to start this blog once we were in Korea, but we feel that it is important to start it now to provide those who are planning to study abroad in the future or who are already going through the process with some valuable study abroad information. Hopefully this will save others some of the unnecessary stress and headaches that can sometimes come with this whole process.  Always Awake will not only focus on our experience as exchange students in  Korea, but it will also consist of as we previously mentioned important  information, as well as tips, and everything we can think of that will be of interest to others! We have noticed that though there are many blogs of exchange students in Korea many of them are very vague on what the process is actually like and are often more personal than informative. We are aiming at making this blog as HELPFUL as possible to others!  We will try our best to update as often as we can, definitely at least twice a week and post many pictures and possibly short videos. Also, this blog will be based on the experiences of both my sister and I and there will be posts written together and others separately, but we will go into more detail on another post. In the coming days leading up to our flight we will make several posts about the first steps one should take when considering study abroad as well as the scholarships available to students and  the process of obtaining a student visa and also a more personal post about us and who we are!   

★Ro & Kai★