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Well hello hello hello. I have big news for the crowds of you keeping up with this loose idea of a blog. Tom and I have booked our tickets home, and will be en route to good ol' US of A on Novemeber 19. We are flying Qatar Airways, and it's supposed to be one of the best airlines in the world. That's exciting. It's always nice to hear good things about your airline when you have a 30 hour travel day ahead of you... I must say, the airlines in the States are absolutely abhorrent. They need to get with it. Transportation in the US is far behind the general transportaion technologies of the rest of the world. Sorry to rant, but if you've travelled outside the US, you know what I'm talking about. So we have about 6 weeks left and we've been narrowing down what different activities we want to do and places we want to see. I'm hoping to take advantage of one of those weekends to get my PADI open water certification. Keep your fingers crossed for me. I need to find somewhere cheap enough and conveniently located. Tom is already certified, so once I get certified, it will be much easier and cheaper for us to dive together. In terms of where we are going for our next job, we don't know quite yet. We've been scanning Dave's ESL Cafe for jobs all over. Right now, we're basically looking anywhere that seems interesting. We just want to "spread our seed" everywhere we possibly can and hopefully get several different options. Once it gets closer, we want to target Dubai, and possibly Chile, Poland or Hungary as backup options. Dear lord, I just want to get out of Asia! We also aren't against Central America. That way we'd be close enough to home for some visitors and still in a nice beach-friendly climate. As you can probably tell, I've been focused on the future a lot lately. I've been telling some of my high school classes that I'm leaving and they all seem appropriately concerned and deeply saddened. :) It's always nice, as a teacher, to be appreciated by your students. I feel like in general, I've been checked out for a week or so now at work. I'm extremely ready to get to the next place, however I really really enjoy Bali. If we had a better pay option, I would seriously consider arguing with Tom about staying. Haha! The language has been unexpectedly easy to learn. The people are the friendliest I've ever met. The culture is deep and interesting. And life is generally easy here. Unfortunately, we do want to save some money; thus we must move on. And there we are for now. I actually must move on myself right now, and head to class. What an easy Friday! I only have one class, and they are doing their speaking and writing exams today. Hooray! And happy Friday everyone. -Brenna currently reading: Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer bahasa love: Aku mau ayam goreng saja. [I want only fried chicken.]