Coming Home and What That Means

This morning we booked our flights home; we'll be leaving Korea on August 26th and landing in Indiana on August 26th!  My sister gets married that weekend so I'm telling people that we won't be back until September 1st because the wedding will be the only thing on my mind.  I so cannot wait!!!!  :)

We'll be staying with my dad during the first week of September because he took the whole week off from work.  Then our plan is to head up to Terre Haute for a couple of days and then have a get-away to Chicago for a couple days.  Then we will spend the week with Zach's parents.

In September, we have to take several tests for our teaching certificate, so we will be traveling to Evansville a couple of times.  At some point, we will want to get back up to Indy to visit with people there.

In October, we were thinking of doing a trip to different places in the U.S.  The last weekend of October (and maybe a few days before or after), we will be in L.A. for a Go tournament (hopefully!).

Those are our hopeful, not yet definite, plans for the next couple of months.  We will start applying for jobs at international schools as soon as we can.  We won't actually be certified until a couple of months after we take our tests.  So, I'm going to tentatively say that we will be home until at least after the holidays.  But, we may not start jobs until August of next year.

Once we have signed contracts at a school, we want to spend a month or two in Central/South America at a language school studying Spanish before starting our contracts.  It's not out of necessity, but out of want.

Depending on how things go, we might have to get part-time jobs while we are back home.  We've even considered trying to find short-time (3-4 month) contracts teaching in Central/South America.

So basically, everything is still really up in the air.  We aren't making any promises as to how long we will be back.  However, this should give you a timeline of what we are thinking.  There are so many things we want to do while being back.  AND, there are soooooo many people we want to see.  We will try everything we can to spend some time with all of you!

Thank you all for your continued support!