A Grand Time

With unemployment lurking around the corner post-Korea, I went to my tried and true place, CoolWorks.com and got a serving job at the famed El Tovar Dining Room on the South Rim of the Grand Canyon.  Although I am certainly beyond my prime in serving eggs benedict to little old ladies on bus tours, it is a refreshing 'break' from the audacious teaching life in Korea.  Here, I have been fortunate to have hiked to the bottom of the canyon and have taken pictures that rival those found in coffeetable books.  It truly is a remarkable feat of nature that something so grand is accessible to so many.  I only hope I don't lose my footing.

New York City

I knew I was always going to live in New York. I just wasn't quite sure how I was going to get there. All it took was another trip through the kitchen at Acadia to realize how easy it was. 2 months later, 2 days shy of 2007, I was in the city. My first job? A teaching job on the 68th floor of the Empire State Building. Acceptance into the New York City Teaching Fellows solidified it: I won't pretend that it wasn't one of the most challenging experiences of my life. Live it and love it...it's the New York way of life.

Korea - Changwon-si

After 4 exciting, yet exhausting years in the Big Apple, and having amassed enough debt for the sake of fun over the last 10 years, I ventured to the land of Kimchi for a year with a goal to get things back into equilibrium. I dare say that the initial indifference I had in coming has been offset by all of the cool experiences I've had while here. It's a working culture, for sure, but I still have had enough fun to balance it all out.