Oh the Places You'll Go

So I am new to this whole blogging thing, but I already think that I am going to enjoy sharing my life in such a new-age technological way. I love that I don't have to cross out my thoughts, I can just backspace and they all go away!

I recently got an invite to take a trip to Hawaii and with Hector's brother working at American Airlines, I thought that he would have been able to hook me up with a free flight there and back. Unfortunately, AA just changed their policy and their workers are only allowed to have friends fly free after 2 years of service at the company instead of 1 year as was previously promised to the employees. This means that I will not be taking that much needed trip to the gorgeous state of Hawaii. Oh well, maybe another time!

I was thinking about going back to school now that I finally got my degree after 1.5 years of them jerking me around. I wanted to do an internship with the rec facility on the UMKC campus, which is where I currently work, which includes full paid tuition for grad students. Just when I was starting to get excited about this, I got an offer from a company to teach english abroad. Now this is something that I have wanted to do for some time now and have been seriously looking into. All of the companies that I have found require you to take an 8 week training course before you head to your destination to teach that costs anywhere between $2000-$5000. I don't know about anyone else, but I don't have that kind of money lying around, especially to spend on a stupid training course. Uhhh hello, I already know how to speak english! It is those foreigners who need the teaching! Anyway, so this company that I talked to recently does not require that you take a training course to teach abroad. The only problem is that they only send people to one country and that is South Korea. Hey anywhere out of this country and to a new location is great with me! So now I am in the process of getting my worker's visa which I should have in mid-February and waiting for them to pair me with a school in S. Korea. The schools will put me up in an apartment, will pay for my flight there and back, and will pay me a much higher teacher's salary than the States. Hey maybe i will be able to teach them some volleyball somewhere along the way as well!

Today I got an email of a school who wants me to work for them, but I have to make sure that they are apartment pet friendly seeing as how I would really like to take my cat with me to Korea. That way I will at least have some semblance of my life in the States. I have also been toying around with skype, so for those of you who can't go long without seeing my beautiful face, you can download skype for free and we can chat on the webcam. Skype is seriously so cool. I can't believe that it is free!

Til next time!