what to do with my life after december...
for the last month i was leaning more towards going home in december and either subbing or finding a teaching job of some sort until june, and i would be applying for teaching jobs starting in september. but as it is getting time to think about booking that one way ticket back to the states i am aprehensive.
the irish government is giving me six months to live here thanks to the graduate work scheme. it is for non eu citizens who have graduated from an irish university and it lets you work for six months while looking for a real job. so since my goal was to live in ireland, i feel crazy for leaving before they kick me out. so with that permit i could stay until june, but if i were to stay i'd would only stay until the end of march. that way i could start looking for a teaching job and just sub until june and find me a summer job somewhere fun before starting the real world starting the end of august.
so that is my dilema. i've been thinking a lot about it the last few days, and right now i'm leaning towards staying until march. i'd go home for 2 weeks for christmas and then back to the states somewhere in the last week of march. i'm leaning this way because i'm realizing how little time i have left and how much i still want to do and i've wanted to live over here for so long, so why not take advantage of it? plus, i think in a few years i'd really regret not staying longer, plus it is only another 3 months. so the reasons why i thought going home are still there, but i'm realizing i'd most likely be living at home and only doing temporary work and most likely unhappy, so why not continue to live here and work at the accom full time, plus travel and i'd be living in ireland?
sooo i need to talk to the parentals about this new thinking and see what they say.
so i had a good weekend :)
worked for a few hours on saturday, it was quiet. then i went into town to run a few errands and called home. laptop is broken :( her screen is dim and it slightly works, when i shine a flashlight on it, so called mom about that, they think her backlight is out, so that will be like €300 to fix. SUPER. so i'm taking her into the shop after work today. then i made dinner and i had a huge craving for mashed potatoes, so i did baked chicken, mashed potatoes, glazed carrots and peas. it was fabulous. i love cooking, but i wish it didn't take so long!
sunday i woke up and it was sunny so i decided to get outta cork, so i headed to youghal (pronoucned y'all) a cute little seaside town about an hour north of cork. i needed to get out of the city and wanted somewhere along the water, so it was perfect. i walked along the coast and sat and read for a bit, walked around the town, did the walking history, had lunch in a great little cafe and just enjoyed getting out and doing something fun :) so that was fun. i also caught the end of the kilkenny/waterford all ireland hurling final and ouccch. kilkenny killed waterford and the game was painful to watch. so that was a fun day!
today the usual monday at work, lots of internationals today! i met with andy and he gave me my thesis back, so a few things to edit which i'll do at work this week and then it should be done! crazy i can't believe it is getting that close to the end!!
so some pictures from youghal :)
youghal beach
boat in the harbour
soooo pretty :)
low tide
st. mary's collegiate church, built 13th c. one of the oldest churches in ireland in continual use
2 comments:
weird. i think you should stay out there. you would be miserable at home. i am sure of that. plus you are probably making more money over there then you would over here.. you would come home for xmas?! yay! miss xx
not to sway you or anything, but if you stay there longer, and i've got a chance to save up some money and work out a way to take a week off or something, and perhaps i'll be able to afford to take a little jaunt to the emerald isle. i'm trying to figure out how i can make this work :)
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