Me? Korea?

June 17. 2010.

So, here it is… I’ve  been accepted! As soon as Avalon has an opening at one of their campuses in Seoul, I will be offered a teaching position there.  Craaazy… it happened so fast. It was just the other day that I realized: I have been graduated from university for a year and a half now. And do not have much to show for it.  I am working at a coffee shop, a grant writing job which could be good, but from which I am getting too few hours, and a serving job which I am still in training for and have not acutally started.

The thought terrified me. Me, stuck in Newberg… forever? ME??  Of all people… not to sound snooty, but I thought I would be the first to leave. And let’s just say I never expected to be working a coffee shop job over a year after graduating from college.  So, I realized: I have to get out of here.  Granted, there is that little issue of a down-trodden economy, but I am not one to use that as an excuse.

I have been talking about teaching English as a second language with my friend Katelyn for years now, and now it is suddenly taking shape before my eyes as something  more than a mere possibility.
Admittedly, I know very little about Korea.

So why Korea?

Well.

Why not?