“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” – Mark Twain
Spain has been amazing! As you can see I haven't updated this blog in a awhile, so here goes another update.
Gary and I have finished the program for the CELTA and are both now Cambridge certified to teach English anywhere in the world (for the most part). We have been living in Spain for 2 months now, but sadly we are leaving Barcelona in 2 weeks. The whole purpose of moving to Barcelona was to take the CELTA program (which we did) and to find jobs teaching English. We were unaware how difficult it is to work in Spain (Europe for that matter) without European passport papers, unless we decided to work illegally which is difficult as well. We both got job offers in Indonesia, Bekasi to be exact, but quickly realized that it is not the safest country to be in right now according to the U.S. Embassy.
We leave on October 13th, but our adventure does not stop there. Teaching positions seem a lot easier to attain in South America but their hiring period is in Dec/Jan/Feb for their school year which starts in March. So Gary and I are going to go back to the states (Arizona to be exact...that is where we will be staying for a couple months until we find a job in South America).
Before we come home we have a couple of stops on the way. We fly to Paris on October 13th and will spend 3 days in Paris! Then we take the train to Amsterdam and will spend 2 days in Amsterdam, we then will fly to New York where we will be renting a car and driving down the east coast. We stop in D.C. for 2 days and then off to Florida for Disney World for 2 days!! We fly out of Orlando to Arizona on October 25.
Gary and I realize that coming to Barcelona was a huge risk. We both left everything behind to experience another world and I would not change a minute of our time here and if all goes well we may be in South America in a few months! I know that plans are made and plans can be broken, but if you can't enjoy the ride and just roll with the punches, what is the point of living?
Until next time.
-Kristyn
Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by.” – Robert Frost
