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A year away from your comfort zone does wonders for you. As is stated in my profile i am current residing in South Korea and am employed as an ESL Teacher. Being a newly graduated student its always a difficulty trying to get a job of any sort, i was lucky in the sense that while browsing Facebook an advert popped up that was providing an opportunity to work and travel in and around South Korea. I went to the website which happened to be the Teach Korea website and found out all the information that i needed to know about the whole experience. I liked what i was reading and what i was finding out and figured i had nothing to lose so i applied and bam within a month i was off and on my way to South Korea. Was this even possible that it could be happening?
On the plane 4 hours into the flight it was still all very surreal and i was still unable to fathom that it was REALLY happening. All of it only hit home after the first 2 wks in Korea. They say the hardest times for anyone is the 2 week mark, than the 2 month mark and finally the 6 month mark. The first 2 marks hold true but by the 6th month i was settled in and had my routine so i did not miss home as much as i thought i would. This was possibly partly due to the fact that in january 2010 (4 months into the contract) i took my 10 days paid leave that we are granted during the winter vacations and went back to SA.
It was curious though that although it had only been 4 months everyone in my family when they saw me thought i had been away for a lot longer, i'm not 100% sure if it was due to the fact that in those 4 months i changed a lot in mindset and maturity. I think i must have gone through 4 years of growth in just 4 months (amazing what happens to a person when you are thrown into the deep end and its a matter of sink or swim), as even to me it felt as if i had been away for an eternity.
Aside from the growth i had experienced i had also felt as if i had found my niche where career path etc was concerned, interesting how it take us a trip half way round the world to find this out. Education was the niche that i had been looking for all my life up until now, i always had an idea it was where i should be but never knew for sure until i came to korea and became a full-time teacher. The looks on the faces of the students i teach (boys and girls aged 13-16) when something "clicks" is a priceless look that i think one cannot get in any other profession. Now although i have qualified with a Marketing Management degree from the University of Pretoria and can most likely make 10 times as much as i am earning now, money cannot buy that feeling of accomplishment one gets when you can see you've touched the lives of the future of the world. And now 11 months down the line i can tell you that i would not change it for the world and no money in the world is even close to the worth of one small look in the eyes of the students i teach that i have experienced.
Though many may disagree with me i firmly stand by my point of view that being a educator of any sort is and always will be the BEST JOB in the WORLD!!!
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