Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas all! I hope you have a wonderful Christmas, happy new years, and that your invite comes today!

(P.S. I thought I shoudl tell you all this group is called "Straight No Chaser" and is from my alma mater Indiana University!)

PC Push

Jon showed me this link about pushing to better the PC and increase funding/vols/locations....very interesting. Initially came from change.gov

Change in Events

Due to safety reasons, I am no longer going to Shanghai. If this person doesn't stop contacting me all together, I will be contacting the Chinese authorities about him. He scares me a lot, I don't like him and definitely don't want him in my life, and I know the Chinese government and police will keep him away and get him in trouble. Therefore, to keep myself safe, I will no longer be going to Shanghai, or China at all. Moreover, I am **engaged** to be married after this year of teaching, and NOT to him, to my American fiance. So I really want this person to leave me alone.

I've talked with the school that my contract is with, and they agree its best for me. Also, because they have many schools, they've allowed me to transfer my contract to another school in another country. It will be at one of their locations in Indonesia (though I'm not sure the specific school--but China, Indonesia, and Russia are their biggest teaching locations...but the majority of Indonesia's EF schools are on Java, so that's a guess). But isn't that picture of Indonesia beautiful? Maybe this change will prove to be worth it, even tho its not what I had been expecting or planning for months...

I am sad to not be able to live and teach in China, but Indonesia is an Asian country I haven't visited yet, so I am very excited about that. I think this will be a much safer option for me, and because its someplace I've never been to before, it will be even more exciting.

Heads Up

In January I leave for *** and my other blog will detail that adventure!!! 

However, in the next week or 2 I will be turning that blog private, but I know there are a handful of you that I talk to and read this blog that may not even be aware of that other blog. So Just in case, if you are interested in reading that blog, email me or leave a comment on the blog and provide your email so that I can include you on the list of family/friends who will have access to it!

Bumpity Bump

Hit a little bump in the road, but hey, you know what? That's life. The bump came, and I'm going to do everything in my power to smooth that bump out and work around it. Just nice and easy. Luckily, I have support every direction I look, except that bump of course. The support is great, and I appreciate it, lets me know that I'll be able to get over or around this bump. I'm stressed, off the charts really. But in the end, it will have been just a little bump in the road. I can see past that bump, now I just have to figure out how to get around it.

Update: still very stressed out by this. can't really figure any of it out tho I'm trying like hell