So yeah....it's been summer for a while now. I'm still in Searcy. I've been spent the majority of my summer in reflection on this past year and the semester to come and when I'm not doing that, I'm looking for a job. Not really anything in particular, just something I can get to and that will help me pay rent and keep me fed. I haven't had much luck with that. It's kinda hard to find anything when you don't have a car....I really wish this place had public transportation. Oh well.
Exciting things that have happened/are happening this summer:
1) I've been invited to 5 weddings: so far I've managed to go to 2, couldn't make it to the 3rd that was in Alabama, and tomorrow I leave for wedding #4 that will be in St. Louis (or somewhere around there anyway) with my friend Amber. I'm pretty stoked about that mostly because I've only been to St. Louis once before and it seems like a pretty cool place.
2) I've been expanding my musical education mostly in Japanese Rock and Pop music. Don't ask me about new music coming out here in the States: it all sounds the same to me really. I've been interesting in the world of the Orient since I was about ten-ish years old and I kinda took a break from it in jr high/highschool (the music part anyway) and then picked back up on it this past year. I love Japanese Rock music and all it's eccentricity! The only problem is that now American music (minus classic rock and oldies) sounds so boring now, haha. Which brings me to #3
3) So I'm graduating (FINALLY) in December. So what's going to happen in my post-college life? Well seeing as I'm graduating with a B.A. in English, I can see a few possible options:
1. Live with Mom and Dad for the rest of my life, taking care of them in their old age and writing tripped out short stories and poetry while working either in a library, gas station, or both.
2. Find some rich guy that's not picky about whom he marries and live off of his fortune until either one of us die.
3. Live in a van down by the river, selling shady goodies while having an obscene amount of cats.
4. Actually find a job that has something to do with my major even though our country's going through a recession-HA! Ahem, sorry couldn't say that with a straight face...
5. Go teach English in Asia.
Take a guess which one I'm actually considering. If you guessed 2, 3, or 4 = WRONG! Not that none of those are possible but still, no...just no. Number 1 is also incorrect: Mom, Dad, I love you but no. Maybe later on in life but not anytime soon. Moving on, I thought this might be as good a time as any to mention this on here (though I think I mentioned it in the past but I'm too lazy to dig through my archieves right now) since my older brother is on his way back to America from China after 4...5...6 years? Well it's been a plethora (man I love this word) of years. Either way, I've been researching different programs and speaking to various people I know have either been to somewhere in Asia, are in Asia, or have at least lived there a while. But I have reached a fork in the road unfortunately.
I'd absolutely love to go to Japan but it's kinda hard to get my foot in the door and I'd like to at least visit Japan first but the only possible way I could see that happening is if I went over there with Let's Start Talking like some of my friends did (though that's a little different than teaching in a school). On the other hand, I emailed some people at my university about going to China about a week or so and it was basically like someone let loose the flood gate: "Yes, go to China! Everyone should go to China! Email these people and they'll help you and they won't charge you for their services and the soonest you can go is Spring of next year!!"
It's not that I don't want to go to China, I think going to China would be amazing. But the question that's been running through my mind is this: Do I go ahead and decide on China or do I hold out for Japan?
....I don't know! This is too hard!!
Misfit
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