Backblogged

5/18/09

1. Found link on career builder
2. Researched www.hoyaenglish.com
3. Applied
4. Received a call from jeah that night
5. Looked for material on korea at barnes and noble, all they had was two pocket korean/english dictionaries - very dissapointing

5/19/09

e-mailed jeah my resume and two pictures

Faxed transcript request to lhu

Told kara and john

In for mr berg

5/20/09

Researched korea at horseheads library

Downloaded pimsluers korean…..started lesson 1….felt incredibly intimidated

Read on the korea national website more about the country and culture

5/21/09

Told mom and dad - they wanted to know why I was looking for my luggage

Told jenny in person

.5 day afternoon for Aaron pierce - read everything in every textbook I could find about korea

Applied for passport

Matt dillon and wiggles approached me in the parking lot after school, wanting to know if I was going to be teaching in a state far far away - threatened them within an inch of their lives to keep their mouths closed and left it at that

Told matt dillon

Researched online for international mobile service

Told becca aunt lynn and aunt penny via text message

5/22/09

Told carmella and mj and aunt sue

To do before I go:

Planning rummage sale


notifying landlord


notifying nyseg


Fire Department Resignation


Find an international cell plan

Cover bills through end of July

NYS Cert. exams

Find out about prescriptions


plan Party

Cancel Verizon

Publish my book





Went to att and asked about their international service, "rebecca" told me it would be mad expensive and my best bet would be to buy a 2100 MHZ unlocked phone off of ebay and then get a sim card when I get to korea and then just put minutes on it

5/23/09

Told more people in my family

5/24/09

Tried lesson 1 again…it's hard because I'm not an auditory learner, I'm a visual learner, I need to find a way to connect what I'm hearing auditory to w visual representation that will help me to understand what I hear and be linguistically capable also - this process can be frustrating when one doesn't have internet access.

5/25/09

Downloaded pictures jeah sent me of accommodations, and the school. Reviewed my contract, the only part I'm unsure about is the part that mentions enrollment dropping below the school average for 3 consecutive months. Told rhonda, paul, randi, chuck, wiggles, answered everyone's questions





5/31/09

Wrote and handed in my request for resignation from the Fire Department


6/5/09

I can't wait to be in a place where christianity is not the dominant culture. It is going to be like heaven….i'm excited to learn about Buddhism and just meet and hang out with korean people and learn the language

6/14/09

Kathy W. asked my mother if I had seen the movie Taken. Aunt penny watches the news regularly out of sheer paranoia, listening for events in Korea. She's convinced I'm going to die there or something. (not that I'm one to be concerned with death) She said the christians in korea are sending balloons with scripture over the Korean border to the people in the north. My uncle, the veteran, the patriotic american, is convinced of the "You don't know what a great country you're in until you leave the US". Bullsh*t.





6/22/09

Had the rummage sale. Sold off a lot of my junk, made a good junk of money. My passport came in the mail on saturday. Went to walmart today to pick up rubbermaid bins to store my textbooks and extra clothes in. I'm not sure if i want to buy a camcorder here, or wait until i get to korea. From what i hear, electronics are much cheaper there. I talked to Jeah last night about pushing my departure date to the 26th of july instead of the 15th, because i have to take my NYS teacher certification exams before I leave. I will be in Pusan (Busan), it's a large port city on the south-eastern pacific coast of Korea.