I was on the Asian side earlier today. I was in between classes and happened on some stationary/art stores. I went in and looked at pens. It’s so hard to find red ones that I like. The cheap ones always work best. The gel and rolling ones make it difficult to shade well. As I was looking at pens, I was struck with such a strong desire to write.

I’ve found this last month difficult. I’ve been feeling bad about not writing and starting a blog. I feel like I should be trying to write short stories and doing this and that. What I really want to focus on is drawing and creating art. It’s what interests me the most right now. It feels like writing would be a likelier path to a secondary income, but really it might be the art that leads me there. I’d create the art for nothing, though. I just love to do it. I hope to spend some time drawing tomorrow. How fun would that be? I’ve got nothing I have to do tomorrow (aside from sleeping in!). Woot woot!

I enjoyed the two classes today. If I do them again I’ll be more prepared and try to run them differently. It was a bit tough getting through the first one which was longer. I thought I was just supposed to chat and talk for the whole time. I didn’t realize that the students go to several of them a week at the school. Apparently they are usually taught vocabulary and other things during the speaking clubs. Oh well. The second one went better because we played a game which the students seemed to enjoy.

I might like this teaching. I liked the students and found myself having fun with it. I hope that continues. It’s great to have the whole week off. If only I was making more money working on the weekend. Financially things will work out. And really, I’m ok with withdrawing from my old retirement account for a while. If I want I can find more full time hours this fall when the hiring picks back up. It’s also possible I’ll be able to pick up some private students before then and continue working part-time at this school and bridging the gap in my income with private lessons. That’s all going to work out somehow. I could really see myself staying here a while and liking it a lot.

I had a really fun time skyping with my parents this evening. I’m so lucky to have such great parents and to enjoy such a nice relationship with them. They also gave me some money which I could have turned down, but I’m stressed about money so I pretty much caved and accepted it right away. Everything is going to work out beautifully on that front. I’m super excited to see how it all falls into place, too. It’s going to be an amazing ride!