One of the biggest mistakes anyone living in this country can make is to think that things are going to go well. The story is going to end the way it was intended, and everything will happen as planned.
'Once upon a time, I moved to Korea...(yadda, yadda)...Two years later, I moved back home, and lived happily ever after'
But that would be too easy, wouldn't it? (and a whole lot less fun, I guess) Instead of being a happy fairy tale, the story of one's life on the peninsula is something more like a cross between those old 'Choose Your Own Adventure' books that we all used to check out from the library as kids (and would unavoidably frustrate us to no end because of our inability to 'beat' them) and a predictably unpredictable M. Night Shyamalan film. We grow comfortable in our happily easy and well-paid lives, and then...
BAM!
What?
...A TWIST?!??!?
I guess I should have seen that one coming.
So what does all of this nonsense talk have to do with anything real? Nothing really. Or does it??? (dun, dun, duuuunnn) What I'm trying to get at in far more words that what is truly necessary is that a change always comes, and you have to be ready for it. In my case, my happy little bubble of a world has been recently burst, and it looks like it might end up in me staying nearly 4 months longer than I originally planned (or 16 months, depending on how you look at it).
It all starts well one day...
- Company A contracts with School B
- Company A also contracts with Employee C
- Employee C works at School B
- Seems to be a match made in heaven, until one day...
...the plot thickens...
- Contract between Company A and School B expires
- School B decides not to renew contract with Company A
- Employee C still has three months remaining on his one-year contract with Company B
- Employee C has no place to work
...and then the real dilemma...
- Company A offers Employee C relocation at School D
- Employee C is happy that he's not being thrown under a truck, but...
- School D doesn't want a teacher for only three months
- Comapany A gives Employee C two options:
- Go home in June, three months early and with one month notice, or...
- Extend contract at least three months so that Employee C works at School D for at least six months before leaving Country E and returning to Country F, possibly visiting Countries G, H, and I, en route.
- Employee C is given two days to give Company A his decision
So that's where we are now. We're at the point in the story where the laughing genius has to chose between pushing the red button or the blue one, the point where the Skywalkers are strataling the line the separates the Dark Side from the Force, where the heroic Indiana Jones must select the Holy Grail from an array of attractive-looking chalices, where you have to choose between page 32 (which you have no idea leads into a bottomless pit) or page 47 (dog attack). You don't know if it's win-win, win-lose, lose-win, or lose-lose. You just know that you have to make a choice.
So basically, here's my point. The job that I thought I had where I've been working for the past 9 months is abruptly ending in about three weeks. June is too soon, so, though nothing is set in stone yet, I'm 99% sure than I'll take the extension and stay until December. The details will be discussed with my company later this week.
...unless, of course, there's another twist.
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In unrelated news, my other blog may be briefly featured on Arirang TV in the near future. Someone contacted me about doing a short piece and interview next week. That's all I know for now. Arirang is broadcast globally on satellite TV, so if this happens, you might be able to check it out from wherever you are. We'll see. Who knows what will happen? I'll give you more details as they become available.
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