Lots and lots of news!

[animeartistjo]

Okay, so I haven't posted anything substantial in the past two months or so and it's because my life has just been that incredible busy.

Early June:

• Finals


• Finishing up my last quarter of undergrad


• Taking care of financial aid (which I'm STILL not finished with)


• Finding work in the summer


• Running around getting legal documents for one of my job applications


• Graduating


• GRADUATING--BOOYAH!

So yeah, I'm the proud owner of two Bachelors of Arts; one in English, and one in Design.

Late June-Early July:

• TAing for DES 117, a web design course


• Logo clean up for the Yolo County Visitor's Bureau (unpaid)


• Scrambling to create a departmental brochure, conference program, and flyer for Food Science when no one would e-mail me back in time or kept sending me corrections after corrections from the copy THEY gave me

The last one I did for $8.50 an hour, the university so takes advantage of its student assistants and has caused me the most grief. I even worked through a weekend vacation with my family to Lake Tahoe, that was how tight this project was. Honestly, I asked in early June, May even, if there were any projects and they slam this all at me late June and it's needed for the IFT conference this past weekend. Design should be made at the drop of a hat, my God!

But the whole reason I got off my butt and posted pertains to

• Running around getting legal documents for one of my job applications

because guess what? I GOT IT! I'm going to go to Korea (South, needless to say) for a year in testing my teaching abilities. Salary is a modest $2k per month, but housing is included and I never had a chance to study abroad. In addition, this ESL job will help me learn whether teaching is a possible career for me.

Of course, I only found this out yesterday and that I'll be leaving the States August 17th. This means giving my notice to two of my obligations, clean and move out of apartment, and pack for it. I need to get a laptop with video capabilities (Skype! and sys reqs for CS5) and maybe a new camera as my point-and-shoot is about 5-years-old. Any one ever been there and have suggestions and/or advice for this Asian American, recent college graduate girl? I normally find lectures tolerable at best, but any ranting/essays you have would be awesome!

To DO:

• Finished 27 sketches to be finalized for a small company


• Finish laying out health journal issue


• Call Aunt L for advice on airfare from SFO to ICN


• Eat all the food in fridge and freezer


• Go see Inception and/or Toy Story 3


• Aforementioned stuff about apartment


• Wait for contract/info packet and then apply for E2 visa

Comments

[evilmissbecky.livejournal.com]

Congratulations!

[animeartistjo.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[xiaou-xijiang.livejournal.com]

zomg that's amazing! Congrats on graduating and your new job <3

[animeartistjo.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[enchanted-jae.livejournal.com]

I don't know if you're a friend of annella or not, but she spent a year teaching in S Korea, and she'd be a wealth of information. Reach out to her; she's a real sweetheart, and she'd be tickled to help.

[animeartistjo.livejournal.com]

The name sounds reallly familiar!

Thanks for the connection. The only friend I have who has done it is a guy and there are some questions I'd like to ask that are not applicable in his case. XD

[lilian-cho.livejournal.com]

Congratulations! =DDD

Sadly, the LJ friend I have who taught at S. Korea is no longer active on LJ ^^;;

A bit of honey helps regulate your body temperature when it's hot.
Korea makes good leather shoes.
Soju (Korean beer/wine) doesn't taste _that_ alcoholic, but it is.
Korean and Japanese grammar are v. similar.
Based on K-drama, Korean men are hot.

/end useless trivia

[animeartistjo.livejournal.com]

Good leather shoes? Useful little tidbit when a blog I found warns me about deep puddles in winter. I'll buy boots there then! Except water harms leather, doesn't it? Dang. XD

I've never had Soju before, so I'll be careful!

I studied Spanish in high school and college, so uh, dang! Shoulda gone with Japanese.

I've seen a few drama, but I guess I'll see for my self next month whether normal Korean men are hot too. ;D

Thanks for the fun trivia!

[lilian-cho.livejournal.com]

I didn't drink much myself. I liked the taste because it's sweet, and my parents told me that the alcohol content was actually quite high.

*rubs hands gleefully* Do give us a full account, preferably with pictures.

Yw =)