So my flight is finally booked.. under the name Mocelyn Ellams, hopefully that will be changed before I go!

As everyone has probably heard North and South Korea are having a bit of a family tiff at the moment. I would just like to point out that officially they are still at war as a peace treaty was never officially signed.

The Foreign Office Commission has no travel warning so I am not too worried.

Something that maybe should trouble me more is the rumour they are quarantining English teachers because of swine flu! There is a pretty funny blog a teacher who is in quarantine at the moment.

The teachers all trained at a school together which is why they were all quarantined, so I should be ok....

Things are looking pretty adventurous even before I leave....

South Korea... Here I come at last!!!!!!!!!

After lots of changes and waiting around, my visa is finally on the way!!!

The school had changed my contract to be living in Jeonju, teaching university students in the morning for two hours,then being driven about 45 minutes to Gunsan, teaching kindergarten to Middle school there until 7, then having to get the bus back. So I finally got my head around the fact I would be living in a totally different place. When I found out it was all changed back to the original plan - living and working in Gunsan. At this point I just want to be there!!!! So, as they had changed my contract, I thought they had not even started processing my visa yet.
But then... I got my visa application number!! Which take 14 days to process, so I was not expecting it yet. Then it takes 5 days to process it here. I called the office today and it should be ready by June 1st!!! So Flying Cows will be sorting to my flights for the 2nd!!! Oh my goodness!

I am so excited to teach again. I really glad I have my Ghana experience, what with the lack of resources, disorganisation, caning, heat and general riotousness, I am hoping that South Korea will not be as bad!!
I have soooo many ideas of fro fun lessons and was even thinking about how to decorate my classroom with educational posters!!!

Now, I have to figure out how to fit a years worth of my life into 30kgs!!!

4 Years since Brazil

Well, today 4 years ago I was in Brazil on my first ever Cross-Cultural Solutions program! Who would have thought that those 4 weeks would completely change my life. They led me to moving over to New York to work for CCS. They led me to having the opportunity to volunteer in Costa Rica, Guatemala and Ghana. They led to make meeting and working with the most dedicated and amazing people. They led to making sooo many fantastic friends. They lead me to realise how much I love teaching and moving over to South Korea (eventually when my visa arrives!) And they led to me realising I can achieve anything I set my mind to!

I was reading through my blog and during my final year at uni, I said that the ideal thing would be that I would be offered a job with CCS and move over to New York - and it happened!

So, what would be great would be to win the lottery, travel some more, finally decide on somewhere to settle down, start up my own NGO/School/business and marry an extremely handsome, rich, black man... (hint, hint universe.)