This seems as good a place as any to start, since it is the reason why The Mouse has started this blog in the first place. The Mouse Linguist was born and raised in Baltimore City, Maryland, and is a recent graduate with honors from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County with a BA in Applied Linguistics. She minored in French. The Mouse has been looking for a job since she started her last semester there, but mostly with no luck. She looked into a program for teaching English in France, but it was costly, as The Mouse would have had to pay for plane tickets to France, rent, food, and utilities in France for The Mouse and The Mouse Fiancé. Coming out of a four-year university in the United States with no student loans to pay back, and a car to pay off, means that The Mouse Linguist is effectively broke, and has only been able to start saving money now (but again, not much, since The Mouse has a car payment).
The Mouse Fiancé found a program called ESL Park, for teaching English in South Korea, and The Mouse immediately applied. She has been accepted to the program, but now must go through all the necessary processes and paperwork to obtain a visa to work in Korea, and so she and The Mouse Fiancé will not be leaving for Korea until October. This blog is both to help her keep track of this process and all things related to it, including her beginning stages of learning about the Korean language, people, and culture, and to take the reader on this journey that The Mouse is experiencing, because she is both thrilled and terrified, as she has never been out of the country before.
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