Countdown

Well, folks, I've now been in Korea for 14 months, and I gotta tell ya, I'm just about out of posting ideas. I know you got used to me posting at least once a week, sometimes twice a week, for quite a while there, but that's just not going to be happening anymore, I don't think.

I have ten more weeks left here, and right now I'm concentrating on figuring out what I need to get done before I go, how I'm either going to get all my junk home or who I'm going to leave some of it with, and which agency I'm going to choose to get me my next job. I actually really like the agency I went through, but there's another agency called Footprints that sends you to Korea, Taiwan, China, or Thailand (working in Thailand is shit, I read) the first year, then you have options all over the world for places to teach after that. That sounds cool. I also saw this ad on daveseslcafe.com for jobs in Gangwon, the northeasternmost province, that pay well, give you settlement bonues, give you only 22 classes a week (I teach 34), AND give you 5-7 weeks of paid vacation, plus all the normal flight, rent, severance payment, and insurance benefits. What a dream. Those jobs were through an agency called JejuESL or something, so I'll have to check that out when it gets closer to me actually coming back here.

I'm also concentrating on saving money for my four months of unemployment and traveling coming up, so I won't have many more adventures to write about before I go. I will be going to Seoul and on a tour of the Demilitarized Zone in the north next weekend, though, as well as to Gyeongju to see the cherry blossoms the weekend after that, so look for pictures and words about those to come. Beyond that, I may just be posting info about the whole leaving process for those who are teaching in Korea, or thinking about it. There are a couple things to take care of that might be of interest to those people for the future.

Anyway, thanks for reading and keep checking in periodically. I may be losing steam, but I'm still chugging along as best I can.