My day with SHINee begins on September 10th. A flight from SAT (San Antonio Airport) to ICN (in Soeul South Korea). My day starts at 3:45 AM when I awake, shower, dress, and leave for the airport with my parents. I would be going to South Korea alone for the first time in my life. As we got to the airport, I hugged my parents, grabbed my one suitcase and my carry on. I hugged my parents 1 last time before going into the airport to check in my luggage. My first flight started at 6:00AM and i would arrive at Dallas Fort Worth Airport at 7:05 AM. The one hour flight went pretty well, I studied my Korean flashcards and smiled on my way out from the small plane, I was excited to go on the next flight. Even with the Nuclear Meltdown in Tokyo, I had no other choice but to go to NRT airport. But I would never be outside so radiation was minimal. Hopefully...after a 2 hour delay in Dallas, I said a silent goodbye to all things American and got on this flight, it was a long 12 hour flight and I slept for about 8 hours because the night before I left I just didn't sleep to try and be on Korean time. The rest of the time I practiced Korean and I met a local Korean boy named DongMin, he was about my age, 16 years old and going back home, we talked in Korean for about an hour before we switched to English, amazingly he knew English quite well. He told me everything I needed to know about Soeul and we even learned we were on the same flight to Soeul! We became great friends on the remaining four hours of the flight. He offered to drive me anywhere I needed to in Soeul Korea. He gave me his phone number and I gave him mine, luckily I was able to get a Blackberry for this flight from my dad's government job so the service was great. We would have a 5 hour delay in Tokyo which gave us time to get to know each other and to get food. Finding someone like DongMin was a treasure because he was around my age and he knew English and Korean. He was good-looking with brown hair and brown eyes, and had a soft voice. He was so nice to me and I was just too happy to meet him. Being 15 and going to another country alone would be difficult. After I guess you could say a date with DongMin we were able to sit together on this 1 hour flight, I was so excited to go to Korea. I told DongMin that I was going to spend my birthday with the K-Pop Group SHINee. He laughed and only smiled at me.

"dangsin-eun SHINeewa hamkke halu jong-il bonael don-eul manh-ihaeyahabnida" he said to me. Telling me I must have had a lot of money to spend a day with SHINee.

I pouted and crossed my arms. Well of course I had to have a lot of money to be with them but I wasn't going to say anything about the $300,000 US dollars I had in my carry-on, by credit card. The flight was short compared to the 12 hour flight from Dallas to Tokyo. We got off and I hugged DongMin after getting my luggage, we said goodbye and I grabbed a Taxi to go to my hotel room. I was happy to have a bed. It was around 10:00PM so I decided to just go to sleep..