New Year, New Attempt At Regular Writing
2019 is here. Yay! I think. I've been back in the states for nine months now and I'm no closer to an idea of where I should be going or what I should be doing. In a lengthy post that I never finished writing back in May 2018, I wrote that I was taking a sabbatical. Well, I've been on it for seven months and I'm still no closer to figuring out things for my life...and that's okay. I guess. "Inside I was dying a slow death." It's been nice to rest and not have to worry about working. My last job in Korea left me a mess, feeling like a broken clay vessel that's been swept under the table and collecting dust. On the outside I was fine. My students were learning and I did above and beyond what my bosses expected during my time there. I also trained the new teachers, created materials, and plastered that smile on my face everyday because I knew I had to. But inside I was dying a slow death. During my 4.5 years in Korea, I was often sick from t
