The year is winding down in Mokpo...My 1,225 teaching hours will soon come to a close. From February 14th to February 29th I will have spent all those hours in my little cramped desk in my little classroom doing I what I think was teaching. To the children it was probably more of a show or game of charades. All those hours added up totaled 51 days of total work. A lot of fun, but also a lot of pain and suffering. Teaching in little Mokpo has been a joy and I will come away with numerous life lessons and things I learned about myself. Perhaps most importantly, I may have learned how to not raise children...some of the students being prime examples. Nevertheless I will come away stronger, wiser and more financially stable than I was the year before.
What is the plan after the 'Po? A 6 month "sabbatical" full of studying for the dreaded GRE test and learning Korean. I will have more than a month to spend with Jeaeun when she comes to visit in the early summer. Hopefully I will secure another job in her hometown of Goyang where I would work and study for another year. None of this would have happened had I not taken a chance on this job.
Take that leap of faith...
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