I think there is something wrong with me. I can’t stop listening to this song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffJ8xcfqOX0 Like I will literally sit there and listen to it again and again. I love it so much. Like if this song were a person I would elope with it to some random country where we would make our living as bakers or cheesemakers… because obviously the country I’d be eloping to would be France. That’s about as random as I get. Well, until Ukraine came along.
I should really explain myself and why I chose Ukraine. Sometime at the beginning of the year I decided that I wanted to go overseas and teach English. Then I heard about AIESEC which sets up internships (among other things) doing things like teaching English!”Wow, what an awesome opportunity!” I thought to myself. I quickly decided that teaching English in China would be wonderful and that I would do that. In the process of being matched with an internship in China the internship in Ukraine popped up. They pretty much said: “Hey you can do this job.” and I was like: “Yeah, ok.” Compared with the Chinese Internship I was being paid, had accomodation provided and it was longer too. Oh and of course the obscurity factor. Without this internship there is pretty much no chance/opportunity/need/want for me to go to Ukraine whereas I’ll always want to go to China.
I really can’t believe that I will be going to a country I don’t know like ANYTHING about… and I can’t believe that I’m doing it all on my own. I also can’t believe it’s raining right now. What’s with this? I guess I don’t really want it to be too beautiful and sunny or I’m going to miss New Zealand too much. I’m having Christmas and New Years there, hoping it will be good. I’ll get to learn about Ukrainian culture and tradition as well as some of my own.
So I’m only going to Ukraine for two months of my 100 day trip, the last 6 weeks I’ll be in Malaysia either teaching in a kindergarten or working in an office depending on which one I like better/has work for me to do. The reason I want to go to Malaysia is so that I can experience a proper Chinese New Year. I feel so isolated and cut off from my family over there and it’d be nice to live with them and connect especially since I have some Chinese now so I actually have a medium through which I can communicate.
Hoorah. I have exams to deal with first… ugh.