Mississippi Life

The kitchen table overtaken.

This is the center of operations.  JJ and I have taken over the breakfest room as our office.  She is busy studying for the GRE and TOEFL and I am busy dealing with everything else.

The main project right now is to find an apartment.  There are plenty of apartments in Hattiesburg and we could easily move somewhere tomorrow if we were willing to settle.  We are trying to find an apartment that allows pets, is not run down, and is not too expensive.  JJ really wants to get a cat but the best apartment on our list does not allow pets so maybe no feline for us.

The second item on my list is finding a job.  I am in the process of reactivating my teaching license.  While I was in Korea, I didn’t keep up with my CEU’s and since I was on an alternative route license; I will probably have to take a couple of classes this summer to reactivate it.  I am currently trying to pick up any part-time work that is available.  I really don’t want to use up all of our savings.  I take the census test in a couple of weeks so I hope that I will be able to do that for a few weeks.

Not actually driving this taxi

I also just found out that my brother, Brent and I will be running our friend’s taxi service for the next couple of months while he goes home to Ghana.  We have been joking about going out and getting driving hats and gloves.  The taxi service really doesn’t do that much business and we won’t be picking people up off the streets.  It will mainly involve taking people to the airport on the Coast which is about an hour  away.  I am sure that we will also get the occasional call from someone who has too much to drink. It should be interesting. Brent and I are going to take some portraits in front of the taxi later when we have some time.  I will be sure and post them!~

I am also in the process of starting my recruiting business.  My best friends in Korea are English teacher recruiters and I have already signed a contract with them to provide teachers from Mississippi and the rest of the Southeast.  I am working on getting a new website online and have started doing research/brainstorming on how to market it/meet potential teachers.

I am also studying for the GRE.  I haven’t really gotten into studying that hard but have been trying to study a little bit in the evenings.  I did have a great meeting with my Grad School adviser who gave me a lot of encouragement and some great information.  I still need to decide if I am going to join the program this summer or wait until the fall.

Project 55 Weigh-in 246  _ I gotta new scale..Don’t think I lost 4 pounds in a week. maybe a pound or two.