Keep in mind that you'll be playing lots of jobs through your gaming. I started wanting to be a paladin, but I chose dark knight which is the exact opposite in every day, and now i'm playing red mage. if you ever want to use a mage job (you will, trust me) then galka is lackign a lot with mp, but nothing that equipment cant sort out. up to you though. i chose hume. Galka lose out the most when it comes to being a red mage, apparently.

if you are dead set on being monk youll need to level a fair few jobs for subs, and white mage is one of them.

Closer to the time I can set you up with a Worldpass to Ramuh.. its a good server and the economy isnt too bad (got deflation right now, but so does every server, ramuh is doing well still), and throw you a linkpearl to an LS called Saturday.