After my trip to Palawan, I began to see how impractical my plan was. To a certain extent, EJ was right. Not in the sense that I shouldn't be traveling this early on, that I should be building my career first, but in the sense that one-time-big time is not enough. I will never be satisfied with the amount of traveling that I have in my archives. As such, I have a new goal in life - to be able to move from place to place throughout my life and always have the ability to come back to the Philippines.
I've come up with a plan (with backup plans) to make this happen. TMy first plan is to get a working holiday visa to anywhere. A working holiday visa is a special visa that allows you to work a menail job in a foreign country in order to help pay off your vacation. Typicall, this lasts one year. Its sort of an exchange program, where only a few countries are participating and give mutual permission to each others' citizens.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_holiday_visa
Since I'm a Canadian citizen, I can theoretically avail of this. The problem is that I need an NSO certificate of birth to apply for it from here. My birth certificate is from Canada. In order to get my NSO certificate, I need several other papers from Canada.
As such, my plan is to go straight to Canada and hang out for a while, paying off my plane tiket and hopefully saving up some cash as well. While there, I'll see how the lifestyle suites me.
Now, the large half naked man that I met in Palawan who has been traveling for 5 years straight makes his money by teaching english in Korea. Unfortunately, usually only take citizens of f a native speaking country who also have a bachelors degree in that country.
If the lifestyle suits me in Canada, I might pursue that degree or even better, a mastoral one. If not, I'll take my working holiday visa and go.
I plan to go in Feb or march. The timing is perfect because it will be right after the Christmas break, and for another reason that I'm not at liberty to divulge.
Worst case scenario, I get to visit my brother in Canada and see the sights. Then I'll come home and use what I have left on the cut-down version of my Asia trip.
After that, I can take masters in education since they're begining to hire Filipino teachers in Korea, but you have to be certified.
Wish me luck.
