Okay, so, in the past 24 hours, I get an IM from my best friend Mark. He tells me he's gotten a "crazy message" from his sister, Stephanie, who teaches English in South Korea. Once my fears of the North invading have been allayed (Seriously, North Korea scares the FUCK outta me), turns out that she and her friend are taking their vacations come the last week of May, and need someone to substitute for them for the entire month of June.

Enter your favourite lazy, overweight Pika. It's pretty well-known amongst moooost of my friends that it 's been an ambition of mine to teach English in Japan. So apparently one of Stephanie's first thoughts was to get in contact with me. While I'm completely flabbergasted, I can't express to her how grateful I am for even thinking about me for something like this. So, they offered me their positions - otherwise losing them permanently to a new hire. The two biggest obstacles for me was getting time off my real job without quitting or getting laid off, and getting the money for airfare, at least $2000.

First off, my boss almost instantly said "yes", which floored me, but I should expect that from her; she's done nothing but support me and try to make things work for me since I went to that store, so she's 10,000% awesome. And I just got off the phone with my dad, who said he could loan me the airfare, provided I pay it back ASAP - most of that will be paid for with the wages I'll make over in South Korea.

So now, barring a passport that needs renewal, and The Great Successor wrapping his greedy sausage link fingers around the South, there's nothing stopping me from living on LITERALLY the other side of the planet for a month, and literally living the dream. MY dream.

 SkylerResias has been nothing but supportive during all of this, and he already means the world to me, but it means so much more to me that he's willing and eager to help me through this in any way he can.

Mark, Stephanie, Stephanie's friend, dad, boss-lady at work, Sky, there are no words I can say to thank you guys that would be sufficient. The best I can do is try my absolute DAMNEDEST at this job, and go at it like nothing I've ever done before. I WILL make this work, and I WILL not kick any kindergarten Korean kids in the head for being annoying.

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...at least while anyone else is looking.