Saturday, February 22, 2014

Whoa! Another post.

Crazy, right?! It hasn't even been a month! First, here are some pictures of our new place, we haven't decorated yet, but you'll get a pretty good idea of what it looks like!


This is the pool and hot tub.


Tanning area that I haven't used yet.


A koi pond...crazy!


Our bedroom.


The living room area.


Kitchen.


Dining room.


Guest balcony, our room has one as well, but I forgot to take a picture of it.


Guest room, we'll get a bed someday!

We got insanely lucky with this place.  We are a 20 minute commute to work by subway, we are right next to a shopping centre, it came fully furnished...aside from the guest bed, our real estate agent was incredibly helpful and understanding, and we are only paying a little bit more than we had anticipated. We checked out some other places and they were either way too expensive or not very nice. We could not have asked for a better place to live!

Work is also going really well! We work at the same school and it has only been open a few weeks, so we don't have very many students enrolled yet, which gives us a bit of down time.  However, enrollment is increasing, and when we are not teaching we can do pretty much whatever we want, within reason of course.  The owners of the school are also incredibly nice! The type of school that we work at is similar to our employment in Korea, where there is a school name or brand and then the individual owners of each franchise. So, similar to Korea, you can have good and bad owners, and again, we got really lucky.  Our first day of work was the grand opening of our school, where the owners came up to us and welcomed us to their family.  They are a married couple and Kyle teaches their son.  Every Saturday they come in and chat with us, make sure we are getting settled and everything is going well.

So far, Singapore has been incredible, and things only seem to be getting better. 







Wednesday, February 12, 2014

Not keeping it so Koreal anymore...

Sitting on my balcony in Singapore, picking up sketchy internet from the shop across the street, waiting for my fiance to come home so we can have dinner, I thought updating my blog a bit would be a good idea.

First of all, I am now living in Singapore. I have signed a two year contract and could not be more excited about it! I live in a beautiful condo with my fiance, in such a beautiful country, and things are really, really good. Oh yeah, and I'm engaged now. That happened a little over a month ago and I am so incredibly stoked about and so stupidly in love it's ridiculous. Hopefully I'll go into more details about that later, but a brief run down of our relationship...We were good friends for a year and a half, he lived in Daejeon and was friends with my friend Laura from university. We always liked each other, but neither of us said anything about it.  Then, one glorious 4th of July, I decided to tell him that, "I kinda dig you," and it has been crazy wonderful ever since. More later, but that's pretty much what happened.

So, I left Korea the 1st of December, me, Lola, and a bajillion suitcases.  That was a mess. Thankfully, Laura and our friend Calvin went to the airport with me to help me carry everything.  Laura was also quite crucial in getting Lola home. I was never told she had to go through quarantine, then they told me and quarantine was closed. So they said I had to go home the next day, I was absolutely devastated. Anyhow, I cried like it was nobody's business, and Laura was very adamant that I would be going home that day. No questions asked. I am pretty sure the language barrier, my crying, and Laura, made all airline staff quite uncomfortable, so they opened quarantine for me and I got to go home. Yay!

Well, this was brief. But I am going to start making dinner now. I'll write more about my last few months in Korea, my time home, and starting a new life in Singapore