Senior Ted's Version of Settling Down

I sent an email to Ted a week or so back, and heard back from him yesterday. As usual, his response has me wondering why my life is so lame and settled down. I sent him a reply encouraging him to stop by the blog more often, but in the meantime, here is what he's up to:

Heya Bill!

Well the grand plan of doing S America as well and
ending up in Rio for Carnival never came to be. I
decided i liked C america enough to stay there for a
while longer. I think back when i wrote that blast
email i had just started living in guatemala, which
ended up being my favorite country. I'd highly
recommend it if you have the chance. I ended up
living there for about 3 months before i headed back
down to costa rica to attend a TEFL (teach english as
a foreign language) Course. Which lasted the month of
august and was mainly about the methodology of
teaching. it was an excellent course and now i feel
very prepared to teach english in the future whenever
that might be.

After the course i would have liked to get a job
teaching english but most schools ask for at least a 6
month committment which i wasn't ready to give at the
time. So i started working as a bookie for an online
offshore sportsbook company in San Jose, CR. I
thought it'd be a bit interesting. But besides the
fact that i was working with a bunch of New Jersians
such as Vinnie, Ralphie, Lou, and Large Marge that the
company had brought down, the work was boring and
tedious, just answering phones all day opening new
accounts or taking wagers. So after a few weeks i
quite and head north again into Nicaraguan.

I picked up a job bartending at a popular backpackers
hostel in a colonial town of nicaragua. It was a
pretty good job and was always meeting travelers with
interesting tales. I started dating one of my
customers, an english gal who was volunteering as a
teacher in town. After my two month stint bartending
i ran back down to costa rica to show my dad around
for a week and then quickly returned to nicaragua to
meet back up with Bridget.

we traveled around c america and mexico a bit. As
both of our trips were coming to end, we talked things
over and she invited me to come back to london with
her. So here i am, been here since mid-December.
Everythings been going fine so far, things are a
little undecided though, not really sure if this is
just a trip or a move, we'll see.

Well that's a quick update on what i've been up to
lately. Hope you and Laura are doing well. What's
your take on the Hoyas this year. They're looking
better than i expected. if they could just get
another win over a ranked opponent and then finish off
the rest of the weak teams on the schedule they might
just make the tourney, we'll see. take care Bill,

ted