I’m writing this two hours before I head to the airport for my flight to Manila, which will start my adventure to the Philippines.
I’ll be there until the 30th, with the majority of my time spent exploring the island of Palawan for island hopping, diving, snorkeling, hiking, and general tomfoolery. I think it’ll be a blast.
As an added bonus, I’ve decided to try an experiment with packing light. I’m only taking my small pack, with a very light load out of only the essentials. It should be an interesting trip.
I don’t know what sort of internet access I’ll have available while I’m on my trip, but if I don’t get to post on here during, I’ll be sure to give a trip report at the conclusion!
Wow, another year down. I’m a bit late on updating my blog with the requisite list of resolutions, but here I go nonetheless!
1) Top off my $10k emergency fund (started last year, should be completed soon!).
2) Top $1k per month minimum in pure writing income. This is fairly easy to do with the current work I have, and I’ve got it down to a daily routine at this point.
3) Fully fund my Roth IRA for the 2010 calendar year ($5k).
4) Take 5k photos. I’ll get a jump start on this as soon as I get to the Philippines on the 16th!
Those are the goals I’m willing to share, though I have a couple more that are a bit less cut-and-dry.
We missed each other for the month of December, which proved to be a month full of drama, shenanigans, and cold weather. I’ll let that bad boy lie back in 2009.
January in Seoul has brought extremely cold weather, and the largest snowfall in close to 70 years. A foot of snow overnight and the entire city freaking out about the white stuff? Priceless. My school principal calling to make sure that I knew how to walk in the snow? Also priceless.
Winter camp is going swimmingly, though this focused dose of Canada prep is driving me bonkers. I’m tempted to tell my students that they all ride polar bears and live in igloos eating whale blubber in their flannel footie pajamas. Luckily I’ve got the mighty large carrot of the Philippines dangling at the end of a stick.
