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I am on holiday in the silence of nature with wind howling over the clear waters filled with life. Where fish eagles sing and fly free in the fresh air. Where the sun wakes up the flowers and the moon put them back to sleep. And the mountains carry on them the beauty of wonders with an abundance of life. This is how I describe the place I am, staying in a little shack. 

Of course I should add we enjoy this nature by walks at dawn and we test the waters with an early bird ski and acting like flying fish over the wakes of the boat with a lekker wake-boarding session. Yeah okey, it's not all just boring nature stuff but I can say this is an absolutely beautiful place. It feeds the sole with freshness and it detoxes the body from the rotten thoughts that built up during the year.

But to get to the point of this post....

So last week we decided to get wifi installed in our little shack to break the everlasting silence of our communication devices and be reconnected with the world out there. This got installed yesterday morning and as I and a few of my family members normally do as soon as we come home after a 3 week holiday, we checked our emails, got up to date on facebook bla bla bla. Late afternoon I receive this email notification reading: Administration. So to my knowledge this definitely had something to do with my Korea applications and so I decided with a lot of confidence and self-assurance that it's probably just a random update on where things stand. Normally they send out stuff to keep all the applicants excited (always works) about the journey we are about to have. Or some administrative stuff... Needless to say normally quite average mails. To my surprise this email was somewhat different to the rest... some of it was cool and exciting and some of it, well, not so much. The content was just not what I expected. 

The email read that the number of candidates accepted and placed have be reduced by 50%. Those who have not been placed will be placed on a standby list immediately. This gave me a cold unpleasant thrill down my spine and left me in shock. It took about 6 months to get to the point of being placed and now there is no space to be placed. 

So for now I have no idea where I will end up and what I'll be doing. This is quite a bawler that was super unexpected. 

So now I will have to either apply directly to go and work in Korea or apply to go work somewhere else such as Thailand/ China/ Indonesia or Vietnam. These places all sound super intriguing, just need to see what is available now and this time I think it will be safe not to count my chickens before they hatch. 

Never thought this would happen but one little set back won't stop me...

This little butterfly is open to fly to any place in the world. (Saying that just made me really excited)

"I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way" - Carl Sagan (1934-1996)