Saturday, January 8, 2011

Marching on...

Time is marching on...I am almost done with my last paper of the semester. All that's left of this entire MBA is two elective courses and a thesis! The thesis outline is coming together, with my professor helping me firm up the outline and giving me some other papers to use and follow.

I am SO ready to be done with this semester! 5 months is a long marathon! I couldn't imagine doing this for two more years! My girlfriend will be back in Taiwan in 4 days, in Brunei in 7 days. I'll be in the Philippines in 9 days, and I'll be with her in Brunei in 12 days! Wow...this winter break is going to be insane, but SO good! It will be wonderful to spend time with her and meet more of her family. Hopefully, I'll learn some more Chinese, and help Whitney with her English. When we get back, we'll be going to be going to the Flower Expo, skating, and hopefully we'll have a few days in Yilan.

I'll bet that by the time this is all over, I'll be looking forward to the break known as school ;). Next semester, I'll have 2 electives and the thesis! Other than that, I'll be spending as much time as I can on the next great project: finding a job!

For some reason, I really want to go to Australia. After Whitney and I both finish school in a few months, we'll have no commitments, no connections, and no reason not to travel to someplace new. The more I observe, and the more I learn, the more I'm convinced that I don't want to live in Taiwan long-term.

However, life isn't about what I want ~ it's about what God wants. If He makes it clear that He wants me to stay here and teach English for the rest of my life, I will learn to be content with that. However, for some reason, I don't believe that He led me to do an MBA in Taiwan for 2 years, just so that I could teach English... Oh well - we'll see. All I can do is trust in the Lord...