It's that time of year again. The suffocating heat and humid has finally retreated, the leaves are just beginning to turn, and the smell of vegetable pancakes is in the air. Chuseok! For those of you not in the know, Chuseok is essentially Korean thanksgiving, or "Harvest Moon Festival" if you will. What does this mean? For Koreans, it means returning to their hometown, bowing to their elders, and eating lots of good food. For foreigners, it means two days off work, with all of the shops closed and buses and trains packed or sold out.
As it were, I'm not doing anything special this weekend. My plans include cleaning my bike, making soup, and doing homework for my teacher certification program. Four days of that. How exciting!
Lately I've been really distracted and anxious about my plans for the upcoming year. The truth is that I don't really have any plans. I'll need to decide in the next month or two if I want to stay in Korea for a fifth year (omg, FIVE years), and if so, if I want to stay in my current job. If not, I'll need to start applying for jobs and getting ready for a big move (both of which scare the crap out of me right now). This decision is further complicated by the fact that I'm one semester into a four semester teaching program, and that the following three semesters will need to be fairly "stable" so that I'm able to pay tuition and complete all the required coursework. It doesn't help that I keep having little moments of self-doubt.
We all have moments of self-doubt, right?
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