After a long blog hiatus…
I realized today I haven’t written since…well, forever. I guess life has just been a little complicated in the past months to sit down and write. I haven’t even had the time to write/post pictures of our month holiday in Vietnam, which by the way, was amazing. I’ll try to post some pictures later. We basically went down the entire coast, saw a lot of great sites, ate some good food, and met a lot of people, complete with a 7-breakdowns-in-one day DMZ motorcycle trip. It was definitely a holiday to remember.
However, at this point I don’t have the strength or focus to recount all of it, so just take my word on it, it was good. I’d still vote Cambodia as a more relaxing, welcoming place, but Vietnam is definitely up there for interesting places to travel.
Moving on to the more recent past, the last few weeks back in Korea have been, well, stressful to say the least. Jeremy and I have been incessantly job-searching, which has had its ups and downs. It’s been a rollercoaster of excitement, disappointment, repeat. At first we were looking at Japan, then Taiwan, then onto China…then we decided we needed to get further away from the Asian lifestly we know, so we applied to some jobs in Kazakhstan and Turkey.
Tonight, all of our stress and hardwork has finally paid off. We’ve been offered 9 month contract jobs in…guess….Russia! Not just anywhere though…the middle of Siberia to be specific. We’re going to be working in a small city called Nizhnevartovsk….and to make it even better, Jeremy’s gotten the position of “Director of Studies”…so not only are we making good money, but we get flights, visas, accomodation, all our bills etc. paid for…all we have to do is buy food. We are especially excited as we’re hoping that when we finish we can do a month or so in Greece and Italy before heading back to Canada.
So, as of now (things tend to change a lot when you’re trying to get international jobs), we are going to celebrate with some cold Asahis and oven pizza:) Ah-sa!
