My Notice of Appointment has arrived, my visa is on its way in the mail, and I have moved out of my apartment and said farewell to my city. I guess this technically makes me homeless. I'm staying with my parents and hanging out with the family for a couple of weeks, including a quick beach trip and my friend's wedding in Nashville, before I fly out on August 17th.
I am still waiting for my TEFL exam to be graded and my certificate to arrive, and for an elf to show up and teach me how to make this blog look the way I want it to by magically imparting to me all knowledge of HTML while I'm asleep. I'm sure I could learn this myself if I put my mind to it. However, if I'm going to spend brainpower studying right now, I'm going to spend it on finishing the linguistics textboook that Kat loaned me or plowing through the Rosetta Stone Korean package that the choir gave me as a bon voyage gift. So yeah, any pretty-blog-making advice that anyone can offer would be great.
The only bad news at this point is that my poor fat kitty, who had been taken into a new foster home by a very generous woman, can no longer stay in this new foster home. Apparently the other kitty with prior claim to the home is none too pleased with Sabina's presence, and has made this fact quite clear by transferring her litterbox activities to the bed. This is not acceptable, so Sabina must now be transferred to....someplace. I just don't know where yet. I'm rather worried. Poor fat kitty.
On a more positive note, I am spending the next couple of weeks enjoying a lot of things that I couldn't in DC and probably won't in Korea:
Swimming in a pool that is not filled with hundreds of other people
Taking a hot bath in a tub that's large enough my legs don't stick out
Cuddling cats that don't try to kill me when I pick them up
Sauerkraut (The German equivalent of kimchi. It's my heritage.)
Ok, I probably ought to do some real work now. Like knocking out some of the 15 units on developmental psychology and survival Korean that are part of the required pre-orientation course for EPIK. I will also be shopping, packing and generally freaking out. You may or may not hear from me again before I arrive in Korea, but leave some love in the mean time!
This may or may not be helpful to you, but this tutorial site helped me teach myself HTML. http://www.davesite.com/webstation/html/
ReplyDeleteI'll tell you that the syntax it uses isn't exactly correct, but it is functional and does work. I learned that in my required HTML class at USC.
Thanks, Katie! You're fantastic :-)
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