Solidifying our future plans

Heather started a new job today with a small children's language academy that is very close to my school. The pay is about average for Korean English teachers, so that will give her a good chance to gain experience.

Meanwhile, we have determined that our target date for moving to Australia will be early 2007. There is a March intake for the Graduate Diploma in E-learning program, and I want to get on with it. This also means that our kids will be able to begin school down there.

Heather is going to ask her aunt in Sydney to give us room and board for a while to help us get on our feet. This would be a huge boost for us because we'll be able to spend much less money than if we had to rent a place. Her cousin Doyle is encouraging us to get down there (thanks, Doyle, in case you read this).

So that's the way things are looking right now.

Australia... a change, sort of

It's been a while since I have felt motivated to write about something on my blog. Mainly, this was due to my disappointment that Heather did not get hired by my school. That was a key part of our plan to go to Australia. When the job didn't work out, I found myself doubting whether it was still possible for us to go there.

After about 2 weeks of hard thinking, I guess we will still try to make a go of it down under. However, I do not plan to get a university job in Korea before then, as had been my previous plan. I'll stick with JLS for another year and a half, and then hopefully we'll go there together. This will advance our plans by at least a year. Even though our financial situation will be a little clouded, we hope things work out that I get a job soon after finishing the diploma program I hope to take.

As I write this, I feel almost silly for once again getting my hopes up, knowing that we might not be able to do this. But Heather keeps saying she wants to go, and I want to go, as well. So, that's where our plans stand as of now.

iPod nano

In the first piece of technology news to strike a chord with me in recent days, Apple released the newest iPod, the nano. This thing looks pretty amazing. Super thin, but with a color screen and room for 1000 songs and or/ photos, I think I've got to have one of these sometime.