endings and beginnings

so here is my blog! it was so easy to create. i spent waaaaay too much time thinking about creating it and how i'd figure that out.

i finally finished my contract at the preschool in sokcho last tuesday........goodness 5 years goes by so fast! it was time to leave the school, but i will miss my apartment, friends and sokcho very much. i said good bye to my friends today and miss them already......especially teddy. i'm sitting in my friend tobi's apartment in seoul right now and will stay with her until my flight tuesday morning. i fly to bangkok and will stay there for one night then it's off to the beaches of koh tao the next day! i'm hoping to take the overnight train and arrive on the 9th. koh tao is a beautiful island on the gulf side of the southern part of thailand. i was there with friends two christmases ago and loved it. i hope to have an equally enjoyable time this time around. after that i plan to meet a friend in bangkok around the 16th for a few days and around the 18th make my way to a town called mae sot, located near the burmese border, where i will volunteer to teach english to burmese refugees. i will be there for 3 months and then i have about 10 days to relax in thailand and vicinity before coming back to korea for 3-4 weeks. i plan to fly to canada around the last week of july. (don't know if you've noticed any of the "around"s that appear before any of the travel dates i have mentioned---but that's what happens when you're unemployed and can choose what to do and when at any time!!) so that's about all i know of my plans thus far. keep checking here for future writings of my adventures over the next months. enjoy!