The decision is final

I have, much to my surprise and seemingly to the surprise of my parents, made a set-in-stone decision to go with the Korvia recruitment site. Before I go into my long drawn-out though extensively logical explanation of my decision, I will first provide a more detailed setting of my future place of employment and abode. I will be living in Icheon, South Korea (no, Google, I did NOT mean Incheon, South Korea), which is a small, rural area southeast of Seoul (approximately about an hour though different sources have provided me with differentiating approximations). I will be teaching at an elementary school. WOAH! WAIT! WHAT? Yes, that's right. I will be teaching students that are not currently going through nor have already gone through puberty; not my anticipated age group but nonetheless, I will still be educating the future generation of... Korea... and am thus implementing my passion to sever boredom from education and impose an acquired love for learning. Not only is this town located within reasonable distance from Seoul but it's also located in a providence that houses the city of Gwangju (a popular city for studying college students and the home to many of my Korean native friends) and Incheon (the only city you can fly in and out of internationally). While it may be a bit less populous than a town I might prefer, this particular job far outweighs the other by kilometer (is that a lot? Note to self: learn metric system).

Now, onto the more in depth details that will allow you to see the inner-workings of my cluster-of-a-mind. (I understand if you make the personal decision to forego reading the proceeding information seeing as that was a slight disclaimer) Note: Aclipse and Korvia are RECRUITERS THAT RECRUIT FOR DIFFERENT COMPANIES AND SCHOOLS. They are not limited to the schools and contracts I have been given but I will use their names for the sake of familiarity.

I was invited to teach at Icheon Elementary School and Chungdahm Institute. The latter of the two would have placed me in an urban setting (yes!) teaching high school (YES!). However, my upbringing has not taught me to make irrational decisions based on emotions (though that's what I have frequently done in the past and well....humm...moving on!) and being surrounded by the wisdoms of home and the intellectual, logical minds of my parents and sister, I decided to create an Excel sheet (Justin: OOOHHH....yeeeah...I think I've heard of those before. Me: **combustion of laughter) outlining the general points taken from each contract. With Korvia, it was a CON-TRACT! With Aclipse, it was a "contract". Here were my findings: Korvia pays me salary (doesn't fluctuate, always consistent, paid on the 17th day of each month) Aclipse pays me...salary or hourly and no given pay day is provided. Korvia pays for my health insurance, Aclipse maybe pays for half. Korvia pays me back for the entire plane ticket. Aclipse pays half. Korvia has me working Monday-Friday, Aclipse has me working Monday-Saturday. Korvia gives me several days of paid vacation, Aclipse gives me 7 unpaid. The list goes on and on including housing, sick time, training, stability, co-teacher, etc. Korvia comes out on top with all of them. Oh, and here's a BIG deciding factor for me. With the Aclipse school, they would provide me with curriculum I had to teach and expect that I teach it their way, which is very structured. With the Korvia school, I will be able to write my own lesson plans with my co-teacher and will be able to add to them and modify as I see fit. Done and done.

I did some further research on Chungdahm Institute (the place I would be working at if I chose Aclipse) and thisis what I found.

Korvia is the over all wiser decision.

Now, I just have to figure out how to get that dang Visa. paperwork, paperwork, paperwork.