Well Now What?! : First Post!

Well this is were it all starts, the first post on my new blog. Pretty exciting I guess! Really, all I want to convey from this blog is a bit of inspiration for those searching for it. It's hard to know exactly what to do with life when only being 21 or 22 ( I mean we are just beginning to experience it). But yet these past four years I've been feeling that I'm supposed to have some sort of Master Plan mapping out the remainder of my adult life. At family reunions, when meeting someone new, even at parties it sounds like a broken record of what I like to call The Big Three Questions: "What's your major?", "What are you going to do with that degree", "What are you planning to do after you graduate?". I can't even express how many times I've been asked these, and to be fair they are completely valid questions to ask a twenty-something in college. However, I also can't even express the amount of times I've met those questions with, "I'm not sure yet" and have gotten a look of horror on the inquirer's face followed by the melencholy response of "Oh, well you'll figure it out".

Personally, I wanted to continue my schooling after completing my undergrad. Yet, when mulling over the idea I quickly came to the quandry of, "What am I going to study?". I'm still not sure, but I do know that I'm not going to burry myself thousands of dollars in debt via grad school loans in order to find out. So that left me with the question, "Well now what?". I had no clue, but I knew I didn't want to go back to my parents house in Saint Louis and hang out until I figured it out. I wanted to get out and see what I was made of while still young and unattached to anything. So, one day in my capstone class I heard of a program through my home university where American students could go to South Korea and teach English to kids for a year. At first I thought it sounded insane and right away three quite obvious problems flooded my mind.

A.) I don't have a teaching degree.

B.) I've never been away from home for more than a year.

C.) And oh yeah, the small problem of not knowing a word of Korean might put me at a slight disadvantage! But after doing some research and a TON of thought, I found it would be a perfect program for me. I would be given a translator and a teacher aid in my classroom, my housing would be paid for, and I would be able to take a training course in teaching English abroad. I knew this wouldn't fully prepare me for moving to a completely different country with a completely different culture, but it did make me more susceptible to the idea. Over all, I found that just because grad or law school wasn't on my currrent "to-do list" like many of my other friends, doesn't mean there isn't anything else out there for a college grad to do! As college grads, we are young and full of so much potential. Why not go see what the world and/or the United States is all about? After all we only live once, so might as well make it worth while!