After 3 weeks stateside, I’ve been back in Korea for just over a week. When I got back, I hit the ground running!! Suffering from jetlag and extreme humidity and heat exhaustion for most of the time, I’ve still managed to teach a bunch of 12 year olds for a week, power through 2 Zumba classes with no windows or air conditioning, and start an all ( Read more... )

A few flashmobs, zumbathons, vacations and a field trip under my belt since the last post. The secret to speeding up time is to keep yourself so busy, you forget to think about it.. also plan a vacation or two and you’ve got something to put that extra incentive in your brain when you can just barely drag yourself to work in the morning (or to ( Read more... )

It’s happened!! I have found my zing. Love at first sight! We danced, we laughed, we tripped up, failed and got back up again. Yes, that’s right.. Zumba! It’s my zing! If you told me a year ago, when I was home visiting family and friends, stuffing my face with biscuits and gravy, cheesy sausage bites and Dairy Queen, that I would be a Zumba ( Read more... )

Wow!! Over a year since my last post! It’s not because I have forgotten about you all. Maybe I thought you’ve seen enough of Korea. I admit, I thought I did too! When I came back, I only came back because life is so easy for a poor nomad like me that just spent her last penny on a delicious empanada de morocho! Great vacation, good pay, free ( Read more... )

Hello!

I know I kind of left everyone hanging from Ecuador’s Chronicles. The last three months in Ecuador were not only busy, but I was sick on and off for most of the time. I also started taking an on-line course and just trying to arrange my next job.

3 Months of Ecuador, the finale in pictures.. Ok, bad internet connections.. pictures to come

( Read more... )

The last weeks happenings warrant another update.. After the month of August that flew by without a trace and the whirlwind of work that takes all of my energy and free time away, I had to stop and think about what I am doing in Ecuador and why I am here. The answer is to travel, see the world, enjoy myself, meet new people; am I doing that? Well ( Read more... )

September 4, 2010

Quite simply the definition of management is getting people together to accomplish desired goals and objectives efficiently and effectively. By all rights, in my first month of management has meant running around like a chicken with its head cut off in a discombobulated state of frustration, confusion, and small victories. This ( Read more... )

Long time no write.. It’s been a little crazy here in the past months! First order of business… I got promoted. After 7 months of teaching, I was asked to be the new service manager of the largest Wall Street Institute center in Quito… I was churning and agonizing over the offer for a few days for a few reasons: 1. It doesn’t mean more money yet ( Read more... )

Well, I have pretty much skipped over an entire month, and a few weeks… needless to say, I’m having a great time. I know I have SOME time on my hands, I’m just not sure what I have been doing with that time… Anyhow.. to get you up to speed.. a very short version of the missed month:

Antisana - The family of one of my students owns a hacienda in ( Read more... )

Not long after I returned from the jungle, my old host family invited me to a party. Before I go on with this story, I feel it is important to re-state that my Spanish, while improving, still only gives me about 50 - 80% understanding depending on who is speaking. My host mother is usually speaking with a 50% rate of clarity. I thought she told ( Read more... )