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 :)

Monday, August 6, 2012

MCs Come And MCs Go (Aug 1)

  • Pastor Richie and his family took me to lunch today :) It was nice to see them one last time and to see them interact as a family. We ate at the food court of a multi-story shopping center on the other side of town – it wasn’t that great, but they paid ;) 
  • Tonight I got to host a talent show! Isn’t that the most random thing? Pastor Richie asked me a few weeks ago if I knew anyone who’d want to MC a talent show as part of the Fireworks Festival. They’d have to help recruit English acts but would be rewarded 500K Won (about $500). I was like, “Uh, me!” It was a lot of work to convince people to join and to figure that stuff out, but we made it to today. I brought both of my new dresses – which was good because it was SUPER windy and I had to change right before the performance, to avoid showing my spanks to the crowd :D It was a little bit scary being on stage but I tried to act like I wasn’t nervous and that speaking on stage is just something I do every day (which, I suppose, it kind of is). Turns out I was pretty good – a few people thought that I was translating what the Korean MC was saying, when, in reality, we had agreed on what to say beforehand – COOL! I can handle being taken for a person who is fluent in both Korean and English! We actually had to end the show early because it was so windy and they were afraid of the stage falling down and possibly starting a fire that would spread to POSCO (no joke). So that was lame, because it was just as I was getting into the groove of announcing. And I felt like I had lured the people I’d recruited into something they didn’t really want to do and then they didn’t even get any prizes. They reassured me that it was okay and I ended up helping convince the talent show board to split the prize money evenly between the entrants (instead of large amount to 1st place, middle amount to 2nd place and small amount to 3rd place). Plus, later at Tilt (the foreigner bar), a few of the people who were going to perform did so there. Overall, it was a very cool/random/unique experience :)
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