It's been a while!

But I'm not going to apologize. I'm not even sorry. It's not like anyone's reading this anyway.

I got my exam results....

....and.....

I passed! But it's kind of bittersweet. Like I've mentioned before, I have been getting a little nostalgic for my former foreign residency, so much so that... I'll admit it, I started looking at the job ads. I debated ordering the transcripts and going to get fingerprinted, but I didn't.
And I'm mostly glad for that. Though I still do have to get my fingerprints taken, now they'll be taken for the State Board of Educators, and not for some little academy in Seoul.

So now there are things to do! Contracts to sign, housing to seek, cars to purchase (rather, CAR to purchase), lesson planning, classrooms to look over, oh wow I'm actually going to be a teacher. It's great, really, it's exactly what I set out to do once I decided to leave Korea. And there's no student teaching, so I'll actually get paid, and get at least a year of valuable experience... experience that will be useful if I do end up going overseas again, as I'll be able to teach in an international school, and they usually want at least two years experience. While I'm sure my academy experience is worth something there, real-life classroom experience will be infinitely more so.

When I first decided to return to Texas, my plan was to start the life that my peers had already started--you know, the actual career, the house, all of that. But now that I'm back, I'm not exactly sure if that's the life to suit me. So I'm going to do my best to not make any plans that extend past a year--there will be no 10 year goals here, other than the vague one of making myself happy with my life. What that entails, who knows? Maybe I'll start a commune in India and meditate every day and live off of bananas. I like bananas. It's a viable option.