Or at least for the month of March. Yesterday, Adam and I finished our last day of school. We originally planned on extending our contracts till September, but our school is cutting back on the number of foreign teachers and didn’t need our services any more. We easily found new teaching jobs in Gwangju that we will start mid April.
So what do you do in Korea with 5 weeks off? Get out and TRAVEL! We leave next Tuesday for Laos and finish the trip with a week in Malaysia. If you are geographically challenged, like my sister, Laos is landlocked between Thailand, Vietnam, China, and Myanmar. We have heard amazing things about the country from friends that have traveled there. We have done some research but are taking the “no plan” plan approach. I have read that the people and culture are very relaxed; similar to “island time.” I envision my days to be a little something like this: eat breakfast, tour a city on bikes, break for lunch (maybe some French food, as they colonized the country), relax on hammocks, then off to dinner; maybe throw in some hikes, temples, waterfalls, a few blog posts, a cooking class, and yoga. We will end our trip with a week on a beach in Malaysia before we head back to Korea.
Below are some pictures from my last day. It was sad saying goodbye to some of the students, but I am looking forward to our new school. Change is good.
