live overseas

It was an experience that changed my life for ever….

A friend of mine said he might enter the program where you teach English overseas. His two country choices are Croatia and S. Korea. Korea sounds like an adventure, although, more isolating, and Croatia is simply beautiful. It sounds like an amazing adventure but I also feel like I would be holding up my life for a year if I was to do this.

I would really like to get my life and my career going and I am not sure that teaching would contribute to that. It would be an amazing experience for me and my mind…but it seems like I need to find some other way to work overseas…or for it to be in a country I absolutely can not pass up living in. Hmmm.

We’ve been in Japan for about two weeks, with 2 years and 50 weeks to go… at least!!! I’m going to mark it as complete, though it’s more “in progress.”

Yay!

I spent 18 months living and teaching in South Korea. It was stressful at times, often confusing, and sometimes frightening and depressing. It was also one of the best times of my life. It allowed me to save more money than I would in Canada, and experience a completely different method of living. The pros by far outweigh the cons, and I have nary a regret for doing what many people will say was a waste of my time.

Ooooook… life has been exceptionally busy for my family as we are definitely, most assuredly, our-stuff-is-already-there-edly moving to Japan in November.

w00t!!!!!!

I guess sometime in December I can mark this as complete or change it to “Share my experiences about living overseas?!”

I’m in that amazingly excited, yet horrified stage. Yay!

I’m living in England right now and I’m so so glad I made it work, even if it isn’t permenant right now. Such a great experience. I love being here, and even though I have to go back in a year, I know that after I graduate college I’ll be moving back here for good.
This is for sure one of the best things I’ve ever done for myself!

I’ve worked overseas, for relatively extended periods (i.e. 6 months) . . . but, I have yet to sell my possessions in the U.
S. and make the jump to expat. My last work trip took me to Vietnam, and I feel in love with Ho Chi Minh City. I daydream about living in HCM, learning to speak Vietnamese and French . . . working on projects that matter to me . . . drinking very strong coffee in cafes with other ex-pats . . . eating Bun for breakfast and Pho for dinner. Ahh. Daydreams.

In reality, it probably won’t happen anytime soon. I just bought my first house. I have a dog that I won’t abandon or give up.

But, daydreams are nice.

Well I did it! Certainly didn’t find it easy, but it was a beneficial thing to do. I had hoped that I might meet someone though. That bit didn’t work out, but I was great for my career and general self confidence.

I lived in England for six months…It was deffinatly an experiance…let me tell you. You have to be prepared to accept the differences, not say one is better, just appreciate them. I had a great time, but I was so glad to get home it was unreal! don’t know if i would do it again, but i wouldn’t trade it for the world!

My friend is going to New Zealand for work and to experience a new life. At first I thought I would have the urge to follow her, but when I think more thoroughly, I can’t really put down everything here.

Go there to be a low paid labour just to experience a new life? Does that really worth?