My dreams and goal for the future

June 29, 2016June 29, 20162 Comments

Everyone has realistic dreams and unrealistic dreams. For example I know that if I stay in in my current career I will never be able to do certain things like owning a yacht or living in a penthouse apartment.

Within the next 5 years I would like to achieve the following.

1 Live near the Seaside

I could be a beach bum any day. Obviously it is unrealistic as people need money to live and survive so I don’t mind if I live in a cabin or in a mansion as long as its by the seaside.

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2 Start expanding our family

Since we married 8 years ago people have been asking us when we’ll have children. We’ve been thinking about it more and more and planning to expand our family within the next 5 years.

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3 Travel more.

We have friends and family all over the world and we would like to visit some of them and experience their home countries.

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4 Start laying down our roots in a country we can call home

For the last 5 years we’ve been trying to get into either New Zealand or Australia but it seems every time we have everything in order, our skills seem to disappear from the skill list. We have the opportunity to immigrate to Korea if we can work here for 5 years and learn Korean up to Grade 4 level. We are really working on this as one of our options now. So please wish us luck…

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Someone I would want to switch lives with

June 28, 2016June 23, 2016Leave a comment

At first I couldn’t think of anyone I would like to switch lives with. I am very content with my own life even if I face many hardships but not more than anyone else I suppose. If I were to swap lives with anyone I think I would like to switch lives with Benjamin Graham or Warren Buffet. Benjamin Graham was a professor that researched the various theories associated with investments. For example the theory of finding patterns in the markets.

Warren Buffet is a stockbroker that own his own investment company called Berkshire Hathaway I would like to live a day in their shoes just to know what they know. I have always been interested by the stock markets but has never had the guts to ACTUALLY take my money and invest it in the stock market. Through my husbands research into the stock markets we’ve learned a lot about investing for our future. We have seen that we can invest in a more secure manner if we invest long term. There will always be a risk of losing your money but keeping the losses to the minimum is what we’re aiming for.

To Learn more about investing you can read The Intelligent Investor. by Benjamin Graham. It is an excellent book that tells you how to invest and also gives information on how the stock markets work.

More interesting books on investing

Both these books were written by expats in the field of teaching abroad. These books tell you how to invest when your earning a low salary.

My multiple personalities

June 27, 2016June 27, 2016Leave a comment

Today’s challenge is to post a picture of myself. Personally I think I’ve been narcissistic enough for one month so instead of posting a lovely ‘self-portrait’, I will post my many faces. I am an absolute Halloween freak and I love dressing up and playing the part, so without further ado here are some of my best and sometimes ugliest moments

Korean Ghost
A member of the band Kiss
It started out as Alice in wonderland but after the make-up turned out to be something else…???
A zombie
Mrs Wannabe. We had a murder mystery party and I was one of the suspects
Queen Akasha from Queen of the damned

First ten songs on my iPod (shuffled)

June 24, 2016June 23, 2016Leave a comment

You never know what you’ll find on your iPod. Some of these songs have been on here since forever so don’t judge.

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Die Kaptein – Bok van Blerk

Everyone – Resident Evil

Wandering crush – Garbage

Bad girlfriend – Theory of a deadman

I’ll be gone – Linkin Park

Immortal – Adema

In the house – In a Heartbeat

Cum on feel the noise – Quite Riot

Feed my Frankenstein – Alice cooper

Vengeance – Jack Hemsey

Types of apartments in Korea

June 23, 2016June 23, 20164 Comments

Being a first time Korean English teacher can be tough. When you first arrive here, you don’t understand the language and you are unable to help yourself, with anything… Mostly your Korean co-teachers will try and help you wherever they can, but because you don’t know the language you are unable to rent the type of apartment you want, especially being a newbie in a foreign country. Therefore you have to stay in the apartments assigned to you by the school. For most teachers you will either stay in an office-tel, one room or 1.5 room apartments. All of these are tiny but still liveable.

One room apartment.

The one room is the worst. Mostly it will be 1 room with the kitchen and bedroom all in one. Luckily you’ll have a separate bathroom.

One and a half room

1.5 Room apartments are a little bigger. Here you will have a separate bathroom and bedroom. The kitchen and living room however is all situated in the same space.

Office-tel.

Office-tel apartments that were previously used as offices but are now mostly rented out as housing. Most of them have a loft style apartment making them sort of bigger than the 2 options above. The kitchen and living room area will be in the same space but the bedroom area will be on top of the kitchen and bathroom area.