My Adventure a Week At a Time✌🏽️

Hey y’all! I have been lacking in posts and I understand that. I have had a lot of events happen to me since the last time I updated but some I am not as comfortable to share.

What I will say is that I had a lot of medical concerns that decided to attack me at once.

I also have been having a tough time getting used to this school setting.

UCI is amazing but there are a lot of things I wish could be changed. If you look for services, you feel discouraged to continue searching. It is a lot faster paced and I did not choose to believe that which is why I feel like I am drowning. BUT enough about that!

I have enjoyed a lot of fun with concerts and going out with the international students with our random adventures. I may not have a job right now (I had to quit due to medical concerns), but at least I know I saved enough money to survive and take care of m necessities.

Scholarships are amazing too! I received a lot from my prior community college and my current university which is allowing me to be very comfortable.

Yeah, just wanted to update to those of you that care! <3

-Daly

Just like before this might be a long read but not as long as Saturday!

This day was completely different from Saturday!

I woke up a little later than the day prior since this day I was going to attempt taking the train to LA which would take an hour compared to 3 hours the day prior. I finished getting ready and had to get to the Train station by 8:05. The problem was that my uber driver was nowhere to be found. I called him and he apologized and said his GPS took him elsewhere. He tried to get me to the train Station by 8:05 but .. We saw the train leave right as we were about to turn into the train station. Woe is me everyone! 😭 Although this happened, my uber driver apologized and offered to take me all the way to LA free of charge since it took him so long to get to my home! Guys! That’s a $49-$53 cost from my house to LA. Walter I will never forget you😭 he even got me there earlier than the train would have!

Once I arrived, I automatically got in line since today was the day for the Astro Audience engagement I told you all about! The convention opens at 10 and the engagement starts at 11:00 I needed to be there ASAP. I called my friend I met at the concert before and while she said she would not be able to be there soon, I was able to get in contact with my other friend! We were in line and we both were really excited to see Astro! We both also really wanted the Hi-Touch experience.. Soooo! Out of my printed train ticket I made a sign asking for Hi-Touch Astro tickets! Some people were asking for a lot of money and being the broke college students we are .. We could not afford it. I was continuing with the search for the ticket until at almost the last minute… I got two Hi-Touch tickets for both my friend and myself!!!

Oh lawwwwwd … My heart was about to burst out of my chest… Being able to be so close to Astro and seeing my adorable little Maknae! It was a dream come true!!! (by the way SanHa is freakishly tall.. They all are … Then again I’m 5'3" 😅)

The pictures and the Video of me during the Hi-Touch will be on Vingle I think lol but omg I made a very as my sister says “ghetto” sign to show Astro since I was not prepared for this awesome experience! The sign was made out of the back of my Concert e-ticket lol! I think I have a picture of it too! San Ha could sense my happiness to see him when I showed him my sign.. We interlocked fingers twice and we both jumped! I actually interlocked fingers with each of the members too … I swear I was in heaven y'all 😍😇

After that .. I was in too much of heaven to function .. I tried to show my sign everywhere and I mentioned Vingle to many people at the Astro engagement to try and get more community members!

The rest of the day was honestly a blur .. I went to the center hall and walked around with my friends to try and spend more time together. We got hungry .. Ate some monster bulgogi fries and tteokbokki 😍 walked around the convention again and that’s where I met Haeppy and BapMokja! I saw this really cute guy and everyone let me tell you I have never been attracted to someone so much 😍 I’m pretty sure I will keep that picture to myself though lol

Believe it or not that’s all I did for the convention. I went with my friends to the VIP entrance I was not aware of since I was in the PR sections 😒🙄 waaaaaay shorter lines for us.

And yeah .. I will write about the concert in the next post.

I have decided to write out my entire adventure and feelings about it instead of making a video about it.

I don’t know how I feel with cameras to my face. Snapchat is one thing but for me to have to record, edit and make an additional card for Vingle (Which is most likely where a majority of y'all come from)… It’s a lot for me to handle! 😅

This will probably be a long read so I will most likely split this experience in two different posts for each day!

Saturday:

(I was not able to attend Friday Convention because of prior engagements AKA My Last Day of Work)

Let’s start with how long my journey from Santa Ana to Los Angeles was… 3 hours. From 6:40 -9:50. That’s how long 😒 I thought I would feel safer taking the bus since I have taken busses all my life. While I did feel safe with this, I got over the “joy” of the adventure after the first hour.

I took two busses to get from my house to the LA Convention Center and when I got there, they were asking for more P3 ticket holders so I went straight into registration without the wait time everyone else had. (Sorry guys!) I felt very weird since I was there by myself and I think since I come from a very Hispanic/ Latino neighborhood, I felt like everyone’s eyes were on me. There was this one girl who actually pointed at me and laughed though. It kinda irked me, but I didn’t want to linger with horrible thoughts! You see, my thinking for life had for the past 8 months and will be for the future, positive vibes only! 😊

Registration: This went by fast, there was no line for the P3 ticket holders. Went up to the person at the booth (which originally said General btw, I guess they forgot about P3), gave them my tickets and waiver form and continued on my way. Like I said, pretty fast. I was alone, however, but decided to linger a bit close to registration. I looked at my chances and got both I.O.I and Twice which I believe occurred Friday and I don’t really care for twice (sorry Twice fans). So no luck for me there 🙄 BUT what I did come across was someone selling Astro audience and Block B audience. Naturally I bought them both! I needed to at least see Astro and take pictures for my Vingle Astro Mod Squad!

This is where I hated the way things were run.. I was already inside the convention but I was confused as to whether I had to exit out and enter again so I waited in a random line and just guessed. The security basically called all of those near me to go to the back of the line. We were confused as to where exactly that was but we were like ok fine I’ll go. I got outside the convention area and who do I see? One of my Vingle fam members from Puerto Rico! I finally met her! I was super excited! We were planning this for a while but I never guessed it would be so fast. We waited in line for like almost an hour for bag check .. Yes the checking of bags everyone!

Once inside, I spent some time in the actual center hall where all the booths. I got a lot of free items that were really cute like 2 handheld mirrors, some fans, a usb powered fan and one for my iPhone, battery powered fan. (I think fans were their favorite item to give out) We were there until both my friend and I felt the need to go wait in line for Block B. Keep in mind this engagement started at 1:00pm... We started walking like at 11:30 am .. As ridiculous as this may sound .. There was already a long line excluding those who were there for the hi-touch (that was a lot more). After the long almost 2 hour wait, we went into the engagement. I saw my cuties 😍 but those dang selfie sticks in front of me made it so difficult 😭. (Pictures should be on my card on Vingle.)

After that my friend and I went separate ways and I decided to roam by myself since I knew that would be the case. I went to many different panels. I met some people along the way to the panels like Nicola and Miles and Jeffrey.

Panels I attended: •I'm foreign and I live in Korean (Where I met Woojongyi and took a picture) •Talk to Me in Korean KPop Lyrics 101 (Met and Took a picture with them too!) •Day in the Life of a K-Pop YouTube Superstar Part 1 (Saw JRE but didn't officially meet him until Sunday!) (Wanna know about these panels, let me know and I will make a separate post!)

After these panels, I decided to go to the concert line and see how bad it was... I should have left waaaaayyyy earlier than I had. But once I was in there... I ended up switching my seat with another girl since she was already in my seat when I got there with I believe her friends and family. But I got to my new seat and ... Well I'll leave that for the next post which will mostly be videos!