I’m Baaaack!
Song of the Day: “Fight Fire With Fire” by Metallica
Yes, it is true, I am back. Cower in fear! Or maybe just quiver a little bit. No? Not scared? Alright, well just fake it a bit to make me happy.
Anyway, I’ve been on a long hiatus from writing here for various reasons. They’re not very good reasons or very interesting, so I won’t get into it. Let’s just leave it at I stopped writing, and now I’m starting again. Hooray!
Since my last post, I have graduated from school and I now have a masters degree in electrical engineering. Go me. However, as you may or may not know, I am not currently putting my hard-earned degree to work. Instead I want to take a little break from the engineering stuff (5 1/2 years is a long time) and go travel the world a bit. So the plan I’ve concocted is that I am going to teach English in China at a university. Scary, I know; who in their right mind would let me around kids? Granted, they’re college kids, but in my experience your decision making skills only get worse when you enter college.
I will be provided with housing (a one bedroom apartment) and a small monthly stipend. Before you ask, no I don’t know how much I’ll be paid. Quite frankly, it doesn’t really matter to me how much I get paid as long as it is enough for me to live. I am certainly not doing this for the money, I want the opportunity to live in another country and absorb their culture and hopefully learn enough of the language that I can put it to good use in my future career, whatever that may be.
I have taken a semester of beginner’s Chinese, so while I do not have a strong grasp of the language, I have a bit of a head start that I think will go a long way towards helping me learn the language well.
I will be leaving for Thailand on February 11 to spend a few days in Bangkok with my friend from home. And on or around February 16, I will depart for China, and classes start February 18 (I think). I don’t know yet how long the semesters are or how long they expect me to stay, I imagine I will find that out when I get there.
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As long as you know what you’re getting into . . . O wait you have no idea . . . THAT WORKS TOO!!!!
Keep the cards and letters coming, G, and try not to catch a disease in Bangkok. (Some people need practical advice, yes?)
You probably have a very fleeting idea of who I am. Bryan Johnson(BJ), acquaintance of your brother. Looking forward to reading about the Big Land to the East.
I’ll be interested in re-reading this at the end of the term.
Yes I think it will be cool to come back and see how much I have developed over the semester