Bon Voyage!
Back in February my friend Alexandra called me up one night and told me she was applying to this English Program in Korea. At the time I was working at MTV Networks at the Viacom building in Timesquare in New York City. I had interned there the summer before for Nick Jr. website and had kept in touch with them my senior year of college and began working for them after I graduated. Life was good, actually I could even consider that life was great. I had a great job, lived with 3 of my good friends on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, but every day as I sat there in my cubicle at work, there was a part of me wondering what was going on in the world out there. I felt like I was missing out even though I was living in one of the greatest cities in the world. My curiosity had already begun to get the best of me as I found myself researching and googling travel programs any free second I got at work, and knew in the back of my mind that after one year of doing the "real world" I wanted to set out on an adventure that was off the "normal after college path." Well here was my answer, literally calling me. Looking back on that one phone call with Alexandra we both laugh about it when we tell people how I decided I would apply to teach English in Korea with her. I literally just said, "okay, sure, count me in." Aaaand that was that. I am 23 years old and the "work place" will always be there so why not take on the world while I still can. So, 7 months later, an hour interview with EPIK, about 1000000 pieces of paper work, and 22 hours of traveling, here we are teaching English to middle school Korean students in Daegu, South Korea. I guess if you want something bad enough, you just have to get through the paper work and make it happen! My friends and I have a saying we use for just about everything we do in life that's spontaneous or crazy, YOLO, ya only live once! Might as well make it a good one...
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