drumroll please...

KOREA HERE WE COME!

yes sirs and ma'ams we have been accepted! i don't have much more information than that right now. We'll go in January cause that's the time we said we are available for.

:) yay!

steps in the journey

today we got e-mails about our interviews to see if we get accepted into the Intrax program (for those of you just joining us, Jake and I have applied--through Intrax--to teach English in Korea). This doesn't mean we're in, it just means they got our applications. We have our interviews next week (same day, different times). They collect our $50 application fee at the beginning of the interview (i know, $50 just to apply, but i guess that's the real world for you) and then we have our 30 minute interview and (this is the best part in my opinion) at the end of the interview they tell us yay or nay. while i'm a fairly patient person, i get stressed out and super anxious if i'm left waiting for too long :)

At this point we have no plan B. It's just Korea AND THEN grad school. i know you should always plan for the worse and hope for the best but i've discovered that every time i plan for the worse the worse comes through. hahaha.

for now i'm just going to work on my syllabus, practice my Spanish and enjoy having somewhere to live before we get booted out. :]

announcement:

1. no we are not having a baby

now that that is out of the way here's our announcemnt....
we're staying in hawaii--for another semester.

For those of you who don't know we were planning on leaving on september 7th.
The English department has just asked Jake and I (yes, me too!) if we can stay on and teach English 101 and 201 (I get 101 and Jake gets 201) for Fall. !!!

I am incredibly nervous and incredibly stoked.

and really bummed because we JUST bought our tickets out....lol. mostly excited though. :)

surprise!

Look at what i got for being a good wife :)

  

it’s the Hagrid’s Hut Lego set. This is my FIRST lego set!

 

Ron is terrified of the spiders!

Hermione :)

Harry

Aragog and Hagrid.

 

 

 

is it totally awesome or what? i’m going to have to say yes :)

a little up-date….

we’ve got some leaving and others coming…

we’re saying good-bye to my two-year-old slippers. they have served me faithfully, but they’re breaking so it’s time to say toot-a-loo.

Can you see where they are breaking? around the toes?

these are the new ones. They’re not girl ones; my old ones were and i liked that about them but there’s nothing really i could do about that. there weren’t any girl ones. :( oh well. i’ll break these in. my feet are in for some blisters lol.

and our new addition to our lego family:

 

 

 

 

 

 

he’s a gnome. :)

 

Jake is loving teaching his class and i am loving writing my blog and doing nothing (well i work, but that’s pretty much it)  i really love not having classes. i know i’ll have to go back eventually but i really enjoy not having class. it’s really quite refreshing :)

balls of fluff and other stuff

here’s a little update on the contor clan:

Jake—after getting a haircut—has lost enough hair to make a small kitten.

a small, curly kitten :)

 

Jake starts teaching his English 201 class on monday. he’s really excited—I am too. (and a little jealous. i would love to try my hand at teaching, but i guess we’ll have to save that for korea.) speaking of which we’ve started the application process; by that i mean we’ve started looking at what’s required to apply. i told my 2 teachers that i asked for letters of recommendation that i didn’t need them until June 20th. I also need to start looking into getting a passport; jake needs to renew his. well, while he’s teaching, i’ll be working and cooking! i’ve already figured out a menu and bought ingredients for the next week’s recipes. Check out my new blog if you want to know what i’m talking about.

it’s pouring outside right now. we’re in the middle of a storm. the lightning doesn’t sound as close as it was during the last big storm, but Jake’s boss called him out to go check on the canoes at PCC to see if they’re flooded/flooding. so, 8:20 am my husband left out in this mess to see if some boats sank. haha. well he’s supposed to push the Jr. Guide(s?) around today. Basically the elementary schools get to come in early before PCC opens and get their own private tour. You know the one good thing about all the rain? it makes my recipe even more fun for today: Oatmeal chocolate chip cookies :)

awww….

That’s right. babies. no, i’m not pregnant. but i sure have been thinking about babies a lot. it’s actually really weird, i never really thought that much about kids at all and now—all of the sudden—they seem to be everywhere. i have a bizarro dream about having three kids in three days. i know i don’t want kids and i’m definitely NOT ready to have any (heaven knows i just learned how to tie my shoes….so to speak). we were talking about names; we actually have them picked already. haha. anyway, it’s been weird. i never thought about kids, then….well anyway. i figure i probably ought to make sure i can keep a puppy alive before i try a baby. haha.