It really actually started almost a year ago. Probably around the end of October after I came back from a trip to Las Vegas to celebrate my best friends’ 10 year wedding anniversary. The trip in combination with my father’s death back in August and my discontented career had me thinking about what I have done and haven’t done in my life. Reality, I haven’t done much. Most of my travels were spent in the US and even then mainly in the West. Career-wise, I feel like I’ve haven’t gotten very far despite all the hard work I’ve put in and feelings of being unappreciated.
Thus, I made a decision to make a career change that would enable me to travel and enjoy life at a different pace. Last year I saved the majority of my Christmas bonus and signed up to take online classes to get my TEFL certification. From January to March I spent almost every evening studying and working on homework. I think the most stressful task I had to do to get my certification was the praticum. It took nearly two months to find a school that would allow me to at least observe their classes. Thankfully, the teacher also allowed me to student teach for a week, but more about the program I choose and praticum in another post.
Meanwhile, the first half of the year was very stressful for me. I cut back on going to the gym, my eating wasn’t bad, but wasn’t great either, and I really didn’t want to do much other than work on my school stuff and read. It wasn’t until recently when life finally calmed down. I’m still working on getting back into a routine, but we are getting there.
At the beginning of August, I finally worked on my resume and cover letter. Then finally in the last week and a half I sent out them to recruiters working for schools or language school in Asia. Majority of them are for ones in Korea with a handful of Japanese companies. I haven’t found any in Hong Kong, which is the third area I would like to teach in as a novice. I’m working on that.
Other than school and practicum experiences, I haven’t done much apart from spending time with family and friends. I really should have done more, but my way of coping with stress is just to be by myself and immerse myself in fictional stories. I’ve been reading a lot of stories on Fanfiction.com and most of them have been Harry Potter fanfiction.
Since I’m making all sorts of plans and working on changing the path my life is on right now, I’ve decided to take up blogging again. I had another blog a while ago, but I grew from that. And threw it out. So we are starting again. I’m going to try to post weekly. More if there are events. I’m also going to try to record and upload videos. Things will be a little slow and not quite great quality, but that’s for another story.
For now, this is a start of my next adventure in life.
xoxo, jane
There Goes Jane 