I'm not unemployed anymore - I actually have a very fabulous job as a preschool teacher with the University of Michigan child care centers. But I'm still posting, albeit a little more irregularly, and I don't want to ignore the personal progress I've made since starting this blog by renaming it.

Blog inspiration: I read 48 States in 48 Days by Paul Jury in the summer of 2011. It was fabulous...although he planned way less for his roadtrip than I would have. And at the same time, my lovely Anna was constantly reminding me that our lives were awesome, despite the fact that we didn't have job prospects, new cars, boyfriends/husbands, houses, etc., like so many people we knew. So, in an effort to appreciate my life and the crazy uncertainty that it is, I started writing this blog about the little adventures I have. (And by "writing a blog," I mean "making a list" because I make lists, not narratives.) Even if there isn't a BIG adventure that happens every day, I try to find at least one thing to list :)

Thursday, July 19, 2012

It Is Finished (July 19)

  • I finally made it to my last day of school! I can't believe it but I'm so grateful to be done. Our students were so crazy. We had a party for them but still had to break up several fights and 7 children cried (5 of them boys). I was so glad when they left my classroom. It was not a good feeling on the last day (especially when almost everyone else I know is sad and/or crying about leaving their students) but knowing I don't have to go back to teaching them is nice. One day, I will again have students that I never want to leave.
  • At dinner, we got a hot soup and I was baffled why we were eating hot food when it is 95 degrees and humid out. Winter informed me that it is the belief/practice of Asian natural medicine to eat hot food when it is hot so your body breaks into a sweat and starts to cool more quickly. Huh. Never thought about it that way before. I told her that, in America, we avoid hot food in the summer because it's awful to cook when it's hot and cool stuff is more refreshing. We were both amazed by the other's customs.
  • After dinner, I went to Daegu to watch Dark Knight Rises. Long story short, I arrived an hour after it started - luckily, it was so amazing that, by the end, I didn't feel like I'd missed anything. Yay!
  • When I finally got home, I switched on my TV and found none other than an old episode of Touched By An Angel on one of the Christian channels. Whaaaaaat???
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