Hello ...... a tentative hello that is.

I don't think anybody shall probably read this. But running (yes, running) through Grey Lynn park today I felt an overwhelming urge to start sharing again .... even if it is just with myself on my old, dinosaur bones of a blog site.

There's been a long gap in my writing here, and even when I was writing more regularly it was rather aimless and irregular. But I've read back over some of the things I wrote while in Korea, and I've got to say I enjoyed them and even laughed out loud at some of my own humour .... !! Well, I wouldn't have written it if I didn't think it was funny now would I??!!

The long gap in entries has been due to the end of my Korean travels coming in March of last year. Arriving home, starting up a semblance of a life again here in New Zealand, living it in a kind of half hearted way, although I did manage to get my C.E.L.T.A. and a job at Languages International, a kick ass school where I've been working for the past six months. I've been teaching adults how to speak English as a second language, an ESL teacher.

I know many people think ESL teachers are a lackadaisical breed with no real career ambitions or cares, but this simply isn't true. It's a great job! But by no means an easy one. And the people I've worked with the last six months are such an interesting, dynamic and intelligent bunch of folk. No wonder I fitted in so well ;) haha. Actually, I didn't. Fit in that is, although probably only in my eyes. It took me up until only two or three weeks ago to start feeling really at home there, at ease. And here I am leaving again. Ain't that just life for ya!?

I think there are a couple of things I love so much about L.I. The students are the best. There are the HUGE hearted, eternally smiling, dreamy, sand swept princes of Saudi oil Kings. There are the stern, crease browed Russians. There are the grammar obsessed Swiss who ACTUALLY adore the fact that Auckland buses occasionally just .... don't turn up! There are the Koreans who are so close to my heart I can barely see them anymore, you know, like looking at yourself in a mirror. But I guess it's their kindness, there simplicity of taste .... I don't know. I can't do them justice. And everyone else ..... !!

The second thing is the location. Right in Albert Park. Surrounded by native and exotic tress. Four massive old historically protected villas house not only our school, but also multitudes of visiting tui, fantail, trush, sparrow and blackbird. I had fantails in my classroom twice last week!

So yeah.

Anyway. I am off to Japan come the end of April. Exciting. Nerve wrecking. Amazing. Lonely. Liberating. All of those things. Apart from maybe lonely. Something I don't really suffer from per se ...... it's something more along the lines of existential angst or doubt.

Not sure where I am off to yet. Have to wait and see.

Until then,

bye