Day -3

It seems that often in my life, when I daydream long enough about something, it becomes a reality. In high school, I desperately wanted to be an exchange student but never really thought it would really happen. My dreams, though, combined with hard work and a lot of support from my family, led to a year spent as an exchange student to a high school in Kobe, Japan. Once I returned home, I constantly daydreamed that I would go back to Japan. In college, I did. Again, after I came back to the U.S. the second time, I couldn't help daydreaming about going back to Asia, but I didn't want to go alone this time! At this point, Steven and I have been daydreaming about going abroad together for almost 4 years. I can't say I always believed it was actually going to happen. There were so many times that I thought we really were just daydreaming.

But again, daydreams and hard work have combined to create our new reality. In three days we will board a flight from Chicago to Tokyo and then another from Tokyo to Seoul. We'll spend a week in Seoul for our training and then commute to Geoje. Geoje is a small island off the Southeast coast of the Korean peninsula, an hour bus ride from Busan, the second largest city in South Korea. We will be teaching elementary school English in a small "cram school" on the island. There are still a lot of unanswered questions, but we're so excited to start our adventure! We'll record experiences, reflections, cultural blunders, and whatever else we think of, in this blog. Hope you like it!