Annyong haseyo! This is a the general greeting in Korea between people. Well, last week I had a great phone interview about teaching English in Korea for a year and was pretty much accepted! I might be going. . . . very very soon! I am still trying to process everything but maybe as soon as the end of the month to start a position with the Global Leadership Academy in a modern suburb just south of Seoul! I am very excited and pretty much telling all my family and getting everyone prepared for this next crazy step in my life. My dad, on the other hand, tonight is trying to give me another guilt trip like he did sometime ago about or surrounding the events of a grandparent's death. This time my grandma is pretty much in her last bouts with cancer, she is down to like 85 pounds and I guess my dad told her on the phone last week about my plans and she cried and pretty much said she would never see me again. My brother and I are going to see her tomorrow I think, but it is kind of a sticky situation. I have not really been close to her since we were little kids and she took care of us a lot, and my dad is not really close to her at all. It is one of those things where it is like I love her and everything, but I can't put my life on hold because of her and her upcoming passing. Wow - I really went off there for a second, but I am really excited about this opportunity and chance to go to Korea! One year in Korea and then more opportunities open up in other countries like South America where I can really pursue one of my dreams in a Spanish speaking country! I'll keep you all posted on when the departure date will be officially and what I will be doing and all of that fun stuff.

In other news, I just got back today from my trip to St. Louis and to Chicago for one day. I left here on Friday and pretty much went to my grandparents house. We had lunch that day and talked and then went to my tio's house in Lake St. Louis because they were going to help me find my friend's mom's house that I was going to the next morning. Well, it turns out it is really a small world because mis tios know my friend's family because they lived right next to them before they moved into a bigger house on more land. I stayed at my tio's house that night because it was closer and my step-aunt had a pretty good talk with me about my grandparents. Everyone is starting to really worry about them and asked me to talk to my grandma since I can and I have the appropriate background and we are pretty close. The next step for them probably needs to be a retirement community kind of situation.

Anyway, I went to my friend's house Saturday morning and we drove to Chicago. Two of the guys went to a soccer game because Chelsea was in Chicago. I hung out with the two girls because I didn't want to pay $55 for a ticket and we walked around a lot and just enjoyed the beautiful day in Chicago. That night we rode a boat at Navy Pier, a skyline tour and saw the city from the water with all the lights and everything, really loved it. We all also rode the ferris wheel that night too and watched the fireworks and later live music til about midnight. We spent the night in a Howard Johnson in the suburbs. Then Sunday we pretty much hung out at my friend's house in the swimming pool, riding on the "gator" like a four wheel type thing but bigger all across the land. These people had a lot of money and had whatever they wanted, including a hummer. We played tennis on Monday morning which I am horrible at and then spent a lot of time in the swimming pool, good times! I had a lot of fun with my friends and that was the most important part that we got along and bonded.

Monday night I went back to my grandparents' house and spent the night with them, all day Tuesday doing all kinds of things and driving the whole time. It was actually quit tiring. Then I went to the doctor with them this morning as requested by my uncle and aunt and that was good because my grandma who is supposedly taking care of my grandpa isn't doing too well. My grandpa who has dimensia pretty much was supposedly keeping track of all his medicine and taking it when he is supposed to. . . yeah right! Well, my grandma who everyone thought was keeping an eye on him and monitoring this situation hasn't been this whole time, so who knows what is going on with that. I told her before I left she has to do that for him and she needs to get my uncle or aunt over there to make sure she does it right too! I was in shock when she said she had no idea what medicine he takes when or anything. . . sometimes it seems like she is slipping pretty fast too! Old age, well I would say at least past 75 does not look appealing to me right now at all, I hope to God that I'll be accepting when my time comes for all that comes with it. I am sorry if I sound like I am talking about this a lot, but it is definitely a topic that is in my mind a lot with my grandparents and also from my social work education.

I think that is all I am going to say tonight.