Well, where do I begin? It's been a little over a year now since my last blog post. A lot has happened since then and I feel the need to address it in this post. Call this post more like a journal of my past year, so to speak.
If you follow me on social media (such as Twitter or Instagram) you may know that I've recently graduated from the University of Prince Edward Island, first class standing, with a BA in Spanish. Before graduation, I was almost finished my third round of edits for my novel. Yet as the end of my final semester came around, I became too busy to finish writing. Then, graduation came. Not much editing was happening there. After graduation, I was busy looking for jobs abroad. I spent a lot of my time working at my part-time job at a Dollarstore, bonding with my family, and the rest, preparing resumés and essay's and all other sorts of documents needed to teach English abroad. Needless to say, I've kind of put the novel on the back burner for a while.
Then in September, I found an amazing recruiting company based in Seoul, South Korea, called Korvia Consulting. They are super amazing, and should you wish to teach in South Korea, I highly recommend you use their free service.
Anyway, I soon landed a job in a Korean public middle school. On October 21st, I moved over to Korea with my wonderful soul-kitty, Sorren. It's been amazing so far. Both my cat and I really enjoy the Korea way of life. (Videos of said life to be found on my YouTube channel. Check out my social media links for it).
Sadly, with the excitement of moving abroad, and then actually living here, I haven't done much editing since my last semester at UPEI. It's been so long that I'm now currently re-reading the whole novel so that I can remember all the cool new changes I've made and so I can also remember where I was heading with the novel. I'm almost back to where I left off. And since I was so close to the end, once I start editing again, it shouldn't be too long before I'm finished this round of edits. I don't think there are too many edits left. This may even be my final round. I'll just have to wait and see what my editor says. (And I'm very lucky to have an editor who understands my adventurous lifestyle).
So! Now that my update is over, I've decided to use this blog not only for my novel and writing related things, but as a helpful inside to being an ESL teaching in South Korea. While you'll get all the cool videos and picture's elsewhere, I'll go into more details here. Maybe even share lesson plans that worked out amazing for me. And anything I post in regards to ESL, you can feel free to use.
And do, with Christmas next week, I hope you all have a very Merry Christmas!~