“Living on Earth is expensive, but it does include a free trip around the sun every year.”

I have all intentions of updating this blog in a somewhat regular schedule when I arrive abroad.  It was brought to my attention that I should update this blog again regardless of my travel status.  I can only assume this is for my friends who follow my ramblings for their own amusement, however perverse their taste in entertainment may be.


I have been scrambling a bit to get my personal effects in order before I leave, to my knowledge I have gotten everything taken care of.


     -Passport w/ terrible, creepy photo that makes me look like a smuggler
     -Visa Stamp, this is actually a sticker which makes me feel like I've accomplished something.  If only it had a shiny gold star on it...
     -Copy of "Korean for Dummies"
     -Towel (shout out to any "Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy" readers"


I am quite positive that I have missed something, but nothing that I can't smile my way out of.  Right?


A few of my friends have expressed concern that even though my contract is for 6 months I will end up spending years abroad.  Is this such a bad thing?  Come and visit!  If I had a friend in an exotic location I would crash on their couch until I was getting not so subtle hints that I should hit the trail.  


I have 13 blank pages in my passport, I have every intention of making them less blank.


It is my belief and experience that one of the most potent forms of learning involves me falling on my face, embracing the situation and making note of things for future reference.


“The only real failure in life is the failure to try.”

In pursuit of personal enlightenment, and avoiding "real life"

Sometimes you can't help but graduate.  I had begun to think that my undergrad degree was some elusive, mythical creature that existed only in a fictional story.  Alas, it is not.  My final semester came and passed, and with a degree in hand the story seems set to continue on to the next logical step in "life".   This would be the time for me to get a job, buy a house, set up a 401k, and the most repulsive phrase of them all "settle down".  Those of you who know me in any context ought to be getting a good chuckle out of that.  This publication will serve to document my life as I venture out into the world, and at times act as a verification of my survival in said world.

Come August, I will find myself in Korea preparing to teach english in the Korean public school system.  This will be, without a doubt a magnificent teaching and learning experience that will have a profound effect on me both as an educator and individual.  I'll know more when I arrive, I cannot wait to throw myself a little deeper into uncertainty and the unknown.  

I will leave you with this quote, which I believe is apropos...

"Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show." Charles Dickens in David Copperfield