I’ve never really thought about it, but friends are a great help. I just had lunch with a woman I would call a work friend who could probably be a real friend if time permitted. She’s thinking of going to Korea to and alreadyhas ESL teaching experience. The only problem is that she’s not a native speaker and has an eastern european accent. Really cool here in Texas, not so much for teaching pronunciation in Korea.
Anyway, so we spent lunch taking about men and relationships because of the poetry reading tomorrow I was trying to recruit her to join in with. It should be a lot of fun and we went from love poetry to past relationship and how it is being a single reasonably young woman and working at Eastfield. You know, I don’t know any single men who work here under the age of 40, so the single women have only the students to look at. Hmm, most are young, but it can be hard to tell just how young. I’m 26 and many of our students are 18-21. Bummer, some are older and married. I don’t know about ya’ll, but I would feel weird dating a 21 year old. I did get asked out by a really handsome one last semester and even said yes before doubts started crowding in and we played phone tag for a week before I gave up on the idea. Obviously, we weren’t meant to be. :sigh: Anyway, so me and D talked about relationship opporunities here at Eastfield. Another single Eastfield under 30s employee is now dating a really attractive man she met at a conference, so I suppose we can’t count her among the singletons.
Okay, so I mentioned to her, as we were checking out some hot young men walking by the table, that I’m going to work on my courage in Korea. I’m also going to try to work on going out more. I’m just to comfortable here in Dallas. I live with teh parents so there’s always someone around to talk to whenever I feel the need for companionship and in Korea I’m going to have to go out and find companionship.
I will admit to being a complete loner though. I’m happy with my own company and can be really shy, especially when talking to attractive, available men. Anyway, but going to Korea is all about leaving my comfort zone and embracing change. I’m going to eat healthier, drink more water, get less sleep, be more active, shop less, and be more sociable.
Posted on February 12th, 2008 by anabolina
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