Employment!! :D

I got a job offer at a school in Seoul on Thursday.  I'm still waiting to hear back from the current teacher I was put in touch with (PLEASE ANSWER ME, SIR, FOR I HAVE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS) but I'm going to be moving forward with it anyway. The school seems nice, the area seems nice, the pay I was offered was what I was hoping for (linguistics double major = best double major yusssssss), and they're covering my flight to Korea.  Initially the contract only stated they would cover return flight, but now it only discusses flight there.  That's 100% fine with me, since I plan to either renew my contract there or find another school in Seoul, depending on how this year goes.  Already being in Korea could potentially make things a lot easier when it gets towards the end of my contract, so I don't necessarily need them to cover a flight back to the US at the end of my teaching year.

I may or may not have looked up the address for the school on Google Earth and been an excited little monkey when I saw it.  The neighborhood looks nice, the building looks pretty and clean, it's right by the subway (so hopefully my apartment will be too), and I've already found a few restaurants in nearby alleys that I want to try.  I can't wait to get there.

As of right now, it looks like I'll be leaving for Korea in mid-August, so I have way more time than I thought.  I was kind of hoping for mid-July (and I'll admit, I'm the tiniest bit disappointed that I have to wait so long) but mid-August isn't bad at all.  Unfortunately, it does mean that I have juuuust enough time that I no longer have an excuse for being temporarily unemployed, so I'm going to have to celebrate getting a job by...getting another job. *grump face* At least this one will be temporary - if anyone will hire me for just two months, that is.  If not, I'll probably try to do some volunteer work or something.  My mom suggested looking for Korean churches and seeing if they would be interested in having me help a few people learn English.  Not a bad idea, especially considering what I'm about to go do.  It'd be a different age group from what I'll be teaching in Korea, yeah, but still a good idea for volunteer work if I can't find a summer job.

In addition to that, I should probably start coming up with some loose lesson plan ideas that I can adapt to what they want me to teach.  According to the email my students will be kindergarten to elementary, so I'll probably just be teaching very basic to low-intermediate English.  In a way that seems like it'll be much harder than high-intermediate or advanced English, but I also feel like I can learn a lot from my students this way.  I don't know a lot about the songs and such that Korean children learn, so I'll probably try to find a way to learn those from my students while teaching them from kids materials that I grew up with.