Tuesday, February 19, 2008

The Butterflies in My Stomach Are Doing Backflips

I can't believe how fast the time is flying. Only three more days left here in Michigan, and only four more days until I finally leave for Korea. By this time next week, I'll have completed my second day of teaching. Oh please, God, let me be good at this!

I am really getting nervous now. Not bad nervous, just an "oh my gosh, my life is changing so vastly" type of nervousness. It's a workable nervousness, similar to the type I got in college before one of Dr. Saxon's exams, albeit much more intense.

On top of the nervousness, I am really stressed. I still have so much to do, and not nearly enough time to do everything well. People keep making requests and demands of me, wanting me to go hither and thither with them. They all seem oblivious to the fact that, as much as I want to spend time with everyone I'm leaving behind, there just isn't much time to spare. I really need 40 hours in a day!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Teaching in Korea can be either the easiest or more difficult thing in the world. This entirely depends on how you approach it.

So far the biggest complaints aren't about difficulty of job, but the difficulty with communicating with co-workers.

Try learning Korean a little and everybody will love you...it's a fact.

good luck

"Passage—immediate passage! the blood burns in my veins! Away, O soul! hoist instantly the anchor!
Cut the hawsers—haul out—shake out every sail!
Have we not stood here like trees in the ground long enough?
Have we not grovell’d here long enough, eating and drinking like mere brutes?
Have we not darken’d and dazed ourselves with books long enough?

Sail forth! steer for the deep waters only!
Reckless, O soul, exploring, I with thee, and thou with me;
For we are bound where mariner has not yet dared to go, And we will risk the ship, ourselves and all.

O my brave soul!
O farther, farther sail!
O daring joy, but safe! Are they not all the seas of God?
O farther, farther, farther sail!"

~Walt Whitman, "Passage to India"