{"id":9036,"date":"2014-01-14T00:15:05","date_gmt":"2014-01-14T07:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/?p=9036"},"modified":"2014-01-14T00:15:05","modified_gmt":"2014-01-14T07:15:05","slug":"another-overseas-adventure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/another-overseas-adventure\/","title":{"rendered":"Another overseas adventure?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>About a year ago, I blogged about how I need to get out of Provo before I went stir-crazy. Well, it’s been a year, and I haven’t gone anywhere yet. My love\/hate relationship with Provo has mellowed out a bit–I’m not as anxious to get out as I used to be–but still, it would be good to change things up and go on another adventure.<\/p>\n

This time, I’m thinking quite seriously about going to the Czech Republic. My sister is working to become a certified genealogist, and she keeps a fairly intensive blog on Czech family history research<\/a>. If I were to go over there, I’m sure she would have all sorts of fun places for me to check out–places where our ancestors used to live. She’s already contacted a fifth cousin of ours, descended from the side of the family that didn’t emigrate, and she has a lot of other contacts over there as well. It would be an amazing life experience to live and travel over there.<\/p>\n

Until now, every time I’ve gone overseas I’ve been a part of some sort of program. Even in Georgia, where I didn’t speak the language, didn’t know anyone, and barely knew anything about the country at all, the TLG program still had a fair amount of support infrastructure for us to fall back on whenever we ran up against a wall. I suppose I could find a similar sort of program in the Czech Republic, but that’s not what I want to do. This time, if I do go over, I want to go over on my own.<\/p>\n

I’m still kind of on the fence about this, because it is kind of a big leap from where I am right now. But I’m earning enough with my book royalties that I could probably support myself on that income alone. From what I’ve heard, living costs in Prague can run as low as 450-600 USD per month, though most expats spend more in the 800-1200 USD range. That’s certainly doable. If I don’t need to take a TEFL job to support myself, why should I? Better to spend that time writing and\/or seeing the country.<\/p>\n

Of course, without making any concrete plans, this is still just a crazy dream. So here’s what I would need to do to make it happen:<\/p>\n