yes!!  so I just received my visa invitation and now I'm really really excited..I just bought my ticket, r/t from Honolulu to Beijing $1397 plus a $67 airport fee (???!!!!).  I'm leaving on the 12th so that gives me plenty of time to go around.  My first plan was to stop by to the Philippines before Beijing, but as I kept waiting for the visa invitation, the tickets became more expensive!! Now, I just need...

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OK...I'm doing this to motivate myself... I am now in Module 5...I kinda had a week long break from doing my TEFL...been really busy.  I've bought my plane tickets for Cali. I'll be by myself, but it's OK, I'm a big girl now.  I'll be doing my Weekend Course on March 27 in San Francisco.  Yey!  Good thing it'll be on Spring Break and hopefully I'd have finished the 60-hours by then.   Can't wait to go to Disney...

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My SLS prof sent us an email about an online learning community called Cypris Chat (http://cypris.ning.com) where people can either volunteer to teach English or learn English.  They have online chat rooms and you can volunteer to lead online lessons or online chat sessions. Majority of the learners are from Asia.  You can even observe classes before you decide to volunteer. Well, if anyone's interested in having some teaching experience even if it's online, you can check it out.  I haven't really tried...

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