So I'm feeling inspired. Turning over a new leaf. Well, actually, this leaf was overturned a long time ago, the blog is just late catching up.
Whence does this new leaf come, you ask? From the tree of POSITIVITY.
I shall briefly explain:
My latest adventure takes me to South Korea, where I will be teaching English to squirrelly elementary students for the year. I expect it to be fun, challenging, overwhelming, but mostly an adventure. During the research phase of this trip, I was struck by the lack of positive blog entries by foreign teachers in Korea. There were a few- but they were drowned out in a sea of Worst Day Ever's and This Awful Thing Happened's and I had to stop reading. But I was confused! All of the experiences I heard about through word of mouth were very positive! Why would someone write that they had a good day but then expound on the one bad experience of the afternoon? When I went back through my own blog entries about Senegal, I realized that they, too, were more negative than I had meant. But no more!
For this new project, I will be seeking out the good, the funny, the bizarre, the comforting. And I'll be writing about it (sometimes) for you folks, but mostly for myself. Because it's good for me. Because it's good for you. Because this blog is not my journal, it's now officially a writing exercise! Take that!
Well, I've got to prepare myself for a 15 hour flight of uninterrupted reading/movie time. Sounds great, right!? I'm thinking I might prepare with a little nap...
(The blog entries from my time in Senegal are still up on this blog, but you'll notice the url has changed; I decided I didn't want to keep changing the name of the thing for every new place I went, especially since traveling is becoming sort of a habit... )
