Back to Kazakhstan

It's been a long time for updates, but here I go...

The great news is that I'm going to go back to Kazakhstan tomorrow! I get to go teach another english camp; except this time I'm going with three other guys. This time however, Dr. Lee and Naila have asked me to be the official leader of the group...more respect and more responsibility too...
The nice thing is that this is going to be more like a camp, so I think it'll actually end up being much simpler than it was last time. Not to mention, I'll have more people working with me, so it should be a lot easier to work it out.

I hope this'll go well and we'll do a good a job for the school. I made Nailia a little mad a year or two ago, so I really want to make sure that I do well. She seems to be fine with me now, but I still want to prove myself a hard worker and a good teacher.

I'm still pretty nervous about this whole trip, but I guess it'll be what it will be. Wish us luck, and I'll try to keep this updated!

Shipping Out Tomorrow

Well, I'm heading off tomorrow for S. Korea first thing in the morning. Funny, it still hasn't really hit me that I am heading off ten thousand (for a rough estimation) miles away. I suppose it'll sink in once I get through security and can't get back at my family. As they say over in Russia "Nichevo" or, "it's nothing." In an old book I read, it was translated as "It can't be helped," so maybe that's a better translation for me right now.

It isn't that I am not excited, it's just that I don't quite feel like I'm leaving home yet. Anyway, it can't be helped. So "en evant!" and let's go! I'm starting this blog, hopefully to act as a nice way to keep you folks back home abreast of what I'm doing across the briny waters in Korea and Kazakhstan. Hopefully I will be able to update this somewhat regularly in Korea and sporadically over in Kazakhstan (God of the Steppes and Internet allowing). So as it is getting late and this is the last night I will be with my family, I’ll bid you (the future audience) a fond adieu. With a bit of luck I’ll be letting you all know what I am up to “Over There” and I will leave you with a song: “Ten Thousand Miles Away” (though the only version I could find, isn’t the melody I am familiar with) and another old favorite of mine.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oU1p4PWmrUI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JV0cPf9_YCE&feature=related