After weeks of anticipation, aching, longing, waiting, wondering, and worrying about my future, an email arrived.
It's also hard to imagine that I've been in Korea for nearly a year! Time has FLOWN by, and I hardly feel like I've adjusted to teaching, let alone living in another country. Yet, here I am, preparing to finish my time at one job and embark on another. Sadly, the program here in Korea is no different than before. Information about my new placement is vague, if not out and out secretive! I have no idea what grade level I'll be working with or what my living situation will be. Hell, I may even have to go to orientation again! Which isn't bad, just awkward. Especially if they hope to pack me up onto a bus and take me someplace unknown.
I've spent so much of my life wondering what's next, it's surprising to find that I've actually been living it this whole time. It's been a blast, an adventure, incredible experience after incredible experience, and it's just beginning....
This letter takes me one step closer to another chapter in my experience abroad and though I'm expecting a heavy heart in saying goodbye to Hongcheon. I know I've made memories and friends that I'll always cherish.
Almost six weeks until the end of the semester! Another 10 and I'm out of this contract! Can my time really be so short? It's hard to imagine when time keeps spinning on at a relentlessly fast pace. I feel the fearful knot of anticipation growing in my gut, I know it'll slowly rise to my throat and give me that feeling you get right before you leap into the open air. Yet, I'm not resentful of this feeling like I have been in the past. Perhaps I'm excited for it. Excited for opportunity. I'm not entirely sure. Maybe I've grown braver than I was when I first came to Korea... probably not, but with anxiousness is the excitement of something new!
