This could be a long one. . .
I just finished watching the movie V for Vendetta downstairs with my brother downstairs, which I bought yesterday when it came out. Ever since I saw it in Miami for Spring Break, it is one of those movies that really stirs me. It is all about questioning authority, rebelling against what is the norm, going against the government for a greater cause, a better society, and a better country. This movie obviously has a lot of parellels and messages about current politics, but it just makes me get excited. I hope that I am always questioning the government, policies, those in power, etc. and really participate in my government wherever I settle down and more than just voting. I want to be involved in protests, letters to the government in whatever country I find myself, I want my voice to be heard. Especially if someday I am a practicing social worker somewhere. . . maybe someday.
*Some very big news - - please note. I have a phone interview tomorrow about teaching English in South Korea for a year. This is very exciting because there are a lot of opportunities and I could make some money doing it to save up for one day going to a Spanish speaking country. But this is exciting news because I think I will probably be offered a position with my experience and everything, plus the phone interview is the last step in the process. There are some questions I have and will have to make sure everything is good if I decide to do it. If everything works out who knows maybe I'll be going as early as late September to early October??? It looks like I am not going to be setteling down in any one place for a while, which is a bit exciting, but at the same time a bit unnerving to really think about. I just want to see the world and do everything I can while I have time and I am young before its too late or something. It is so crazy, but at the same time really exciting to think that I could be somewhere in South Korea in maybe two months or something!
But for the time being I did move back to Missouri on Sunday and everything has gone for the most part smoothly. It is nice in someways to be here for a while, but in other ways it is just weird. I have found myself these last couple days like walking around my house just trying to get used to it and explore everything. I have seen it, but home is so different from the home I knew before I left for college four years on many levels besides the fact that my parents remodeled everything pretty much and everything looks so different. But even here I don't really have many friends left in the area and I feel so out of place here in Springfield like it isn't my city, but at the same time it is. But Friday I am going up to St. Louis to visit my grandparents and then I am meeting some friends there. We are driving up to Chicago on Saturday for the day and then will explore St. Louis a little bit on Sunday which I have already seen and then I'll stay up an extra day on Monday and spend it with my grandparents again. Who knows. . . I might see my aunt and uncle too why I am there? The truth of the matter is that right now I am more excited about just being in St. Louis again after a good while and seeing my grandparents. Yes, my friends are my family but it is almost too soon to really miss them so that part does not excite me a ton. Plus while we are in Chicago and St. Louis they are going to want to see things and keep busy you know. I have already seen pretty much everything in St. Louis, but hey I shouldn't take my time for granted with people. And then one of my good friends from Kansas is coming down here the next weekend, so that is exciting. Actually, it is my friend from Michigan, but now he lives in Kansas.
What else? I finished Love in the Time of Cholera one of my all time favorite books now. I never really know for sure how I feel about Floretino Ariza though even at the end when it is almost natural that him and Fermina end up together. It is such a weird story, almost feels like it is in another world, but at the same time it almost feels familiar and natural to read it like you are there and can feel the same things and see the same things the characters see. And there are many ideas or thoughts in it that are so right on in many ways I think, that you could almost see them as pearls of wisdom about life, relationships, marraige, etc.
Now, I am on to another book that I have also read before but in Spanish. Yes, I am reading Of Love and Shadows in English by Isabel Allende that I read earlier this year in Spanish. I am finding that I understand the story a little bit better this time because I don't have to try so hard to get everything and just can breeze through it. But at the same time, I am finding in parts where I read it and I can like picture myself or I remember reading that part in Spanish before and how I felt at that time. It is a very beautiful story in my opinion.
Well, that is about it for now for this portion in history of my life.
I just finished watching the movie V for Vendetta downstairs with my brother downstairs, which I bought yesterday when it came out. Ever since I saw it in Miami for Spring Break, it is one of those movies that really stirs me. It is all about questioning authority, rebelling against what is the norm, going against the government for a greater cause, a better society, and a better country. This movie obviously has a lot of parellels and messages about current politics, but it just makes me get excited. I hope that I am always questioning the government, policies, those in power, etc. and really participate in my government wherever I settle down and more than just voting. I want to be involved in protests, letters to the government in whatever country I find myself, I want my voice to be heard. Especially if someday I am a practicing social worker somewhere. . . maybe someday.
*Some very big news - - please note. I have a phone interview tomorrow about teaching English in South Korea for a year. This is very exciting because there are a lot of opportunities and I could make some money doing it to save up for one day going to a Spanish speaking country. But this is exciting news because I think I will probably be offered a position with my experience and everything, plus the phone interview is the last step in the process. There are some questions I have and will have to make sure everything is good if I decide to do it. If everything works out who knows maybe I'll be going as early as late September to early October??? It looks like I am not going to be setteling down in any one place for a while, which is a bit exciting, but at the same time a bit unnerving to really think about. I just want to see the world and do everything I can while I have time and I am young before its too late or something. It is so crazy, but at the same time really exciting to think that I could be somewhere in South Korea in maybe two months or something!
But for the time being I did move back to Missouri on Sunday and everything has gone for the most part smoothly. It is nice in someways to be here for a while, but in other ways it is just weird. I have found myself these last couple days like walking around my house just trying to get used to it and explore everything. I have seen it, but home is so different from the home I knew before I left for college four years on many levels besides the fact that my parents remodeled everything pretty much and everything looks so different. But even here I don't really have many friends left in the area and I feel so out of place here in Springfield like it isn't my city, but at the same time it is. But Friday I am going up to St. Louis to visit my grandparents and then I am meeting some friends there. We are driving up to Chicago on Saturday for the day and then will explore St. Louis a little bit on Sunday which I have already seen and then I'll stay up an extra day on Monday and spend it with my grandparents again. Who knows. . . I might see my aunt and uncle too why I am there? The truth of the matter is that right now I am more excited about just being in St. Louis again after a good while and seeing my grandparents. Yes, my friends are my family but it is almost too soon to really miss them so that part does not excite me a ton. Plus while we are in Chicago and St. Louis they are going to want to see things and keep busy you know. I have already seen pretty much everything in St. Louis, but hey I shouldn't take my time for granted with people. And then one of my good friends from Kansas is coming down here the next weekend, so that is exciting. Actually, it is my friend from Michigan, but now he lives in Kansas.
What else? I finished Love in the Time of Cholera one of my all time favorite books now. I never really know for sure how I feel about Floretino Ariza though even at the end when it is almost natural that him and Fermina end up together. It is such a weird story, almost feels like it is in another world, but at the same time it almost feels familiar and natural to read it like you are there and can feel the same things and see the same things the characters see. And there are many ideas or thoughts in it that are so right on in many ways I think, that you could almost see them as pearls of wisdom about life, relationships, marraige, etc.
Now, I am on to another book that I have also read before but in Spanish. Yes, I am reading Of Love and Shadows in English by Isabel Allende that I read earlier this year in Spanish. I am finding that I understand the story a little bit better this time because I don't have to try so hard to get everything and just can breeze through it. But at the same time, I am finding in parts where I read it and I can like picture myself or I remember reading that part in Spanish before and how I felt at that time. It is a very beautiful story in my opinion.
Well, that is about it for now for this portion in history of my life.
1 comment:
Best of luck, hombre guapo! So glad so many crazy things are going on with you :-)
Great reads too... GGM makes me feel like I really am in another world too... magical realism is such a perfect name for it.
Have fun in Chicago and St. Louis :-)!
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