So i have begun my third year at Guiyang Medical University. I teach 16 hours a week, which is the most i have ever taught, usually i only have 14. but i'm excited and i go down to 12 hours after November 13th, then down to 10 hours after Thanksgiving, so the end of the semester will not be too bad. For the first time ever i am teaching a film class! Last year when i told the school that i was official told that i can stay for a third year i asked them if i could teach a culture class or a film class, and i was given a film class. Its been challenging already, because the students are not used to a teacher that actually makes them do work. I've seen Chinese teacher showing movies before, all they have done is put in a movie and walked out of the room. I'm making them watch the movie with English subtitles, answer questions while watching the movie, and do discussions on the movie after we have watched the whole thing. In addition, this class is with seniors, so they are just ready to be done, but this is the class that i only have until November 13th, because after that they go and do their internships. I am still teaching Post grad students, i have three classes with them, and this year they are larger classes than i am used to. Usually my classes have been 30-45 students, this year my classes are 62, 52, and 51, which yeah its not that much more, but in a classroom that only fits 48 students, its s bit tough. Then i have one more Post Grad class and its PhD students there are only 9 students in that class, which is a little intimidating. But the PhD students finish the week of Thanksgiving, so one less class to worry about the last month. Last but not least i am teaching the sophomores, i have them split into two classes, so about 21 students in each class. The last two years my site mate (Jonny) and I each had a class of sophomores and a class of Freshman, well this year the women in charge of the English department decided that she thought it would be fairer for grading if one teacher teaches the whole grade. I happen to think that, that makes perfect sense, therefore i got the sophomores, and my new site mate got the freshman. Originally i was suppose to have all the sophomores at one time, but i asked to have them split into two classes because i was used to teaching only half the class at a time, and also Oral English works better with a smaller class.
So enough about my classes, how about i tell you about my new site mate. Her name is Jenine, she was a PCV in Bulgaria, and she met her Boyfriend there. Last year her BF came to China as a PCV, i met her last Christmas when she came to visit him. But so when she finished last spring she decide to do one more year as a PCV in China. Her BF is in Liupanshui, which is about 4 hours away from Guiyang. She is awesome, we get along great. She is very different from Jonny, but we have a nice relationship, so far. In addition, there is another girl Becca who is right around the corner from our school at the commercial college, this is a new site this year. So its like i have two new site mates. Its been great so far, i have spent a lot time getting to know these two girls and a little time getting to know the other new volunteers in my city. This weekend we are throwing a welcome party for all the new volunteers in our province, so i will get to meet all the ones i dont know and get to better know the ones i already met. In addition on Thursday i am going out to dinner with the all the volunteers and a few friends in Guiyang for my birthday!
I have lots of ideas and plans for things that i want to do this year. I'm still working on my English Language Library, so feel free to send me books and magazines to contribute to it. I'm doing a woman's group with my sophomore girls, and Jenine is thinking about doing one with her freshman, which will be cool cause then we can plan things together. Jonny did a movie night for the past two years, and i really want to continue it and Jenine likes the idea of it, but Jonny went to ever movie night and he ran it. He made this really nice ppt, going over what the movie is, vocabulary that he thought would be difficult, and some discussion questions for after. Jenine and I dont want to do that, we dont want to have to sit at movie night every Friday night. So we decided that we would continue it, but we are going to have the students run it. We would run the first one, and maybe the second, but then have students sign up to run it each week. They could come to out office borrow movies, choose a movie to run, and tey would be in charge of the movie that week. It will probably be nothing like how Jonny did it, but thats okay. I'm trying to study Chinese more, so that when i leave at the end of this year i fee like i actually lived and communicated in China for three years, where as right now i feel like i did after the first few months here. I have improved but i dont use it very often so i dont actually improve.
I'm so excited for this year! I'm still not sure what i am going to do when the year is over, but i have many ideas. I still want to do the Foreign Service, so i will retake that test in June/July. But i need to have other plans because even if i pass this time, the process is very long therefore i will need something to do. I'm thinking about getting a Peace Corps Job when i'm done. Want to go the Grad school, but have to take the GREs. There are so many options, and not a lot, but some time to think about it and figure out what i'm going to do.
I hope all is well with everyone. I miss you all!
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Monday, July 20, 2009
Goodbyes
My fellow Guizhou 13s have left. I unfortunately was not able to be in Chengdu when they left so i did not get to say a proper goodbye to them which makes them leaving that much sadder. The reason i could not be in Chengdu is because i had some visa issues, which meant that i had to stay in Guiyzng until my visa was updated and i get my passport back with the new visa in it. Anyway, i went to the train station on Monday and said good bye to Todd, Jess, Danny, Dave, & Jonny. We stood around gathering and waiting for Danny of course because he is always late, then he showed up and it was a rush a goodbyes and see you laters, with a few tears. Luckly Jonny is returning to Guiyang to teach and then go travelling so i will get to see him and we will get to say a proper goodbye to each other. Then on Wendesday i went to the station again and said bye to Val, when i showed up she was surrounded by lots of students, we stood around talking a little while, then she went into the station and got on the train. It was hard to see all my Guiyang friends leave our Guizhou. However, what was even harder was on Friday night/early Saturday morning they called me. I was not home when they first called as i went to the movies, but when i got home i sent them a message and Jonny called. So i talked to Todd, Kari J, Sigma, Dave, & Jonny, it was espeically hard to talk to them becuase i was sad that they were leaving and very dissappointed that i could not be in Chengdu with them, and disappointed that i missed their calls earlier when they called and everyone was there. I will eventually see them all again back in the states, we will have a reunion someday!
Now with almost all my goodbyes out of the way, i am sitting around waiting to leave to Chengdu, which will be in two days! I am very excited to be in Chengdu for about two weeks helping with Model School! I will get to meet the China 15s, and hopefully my future sitemate and fellow Guizhouren. Then i will head back to the states for a month to visit friends and family. Although for some reason i feel more excited about Chengdu than i do about going home.
Tomorrow night i will have Bean Hot Pot with Jonny as part of our final and proper goodbye. The next day i will board a train and be headed to Chengdu! I'm looking forward to the next few weeks and next year!
Now with almost all my goodbyes out of the way, i am sitting around waiting to leave to Chengdu, which will be in two days! I am very excited to be in Chengdu for about two weeks helping with Model School! I will get to meet the China 15s, and hopefully my future sitemate and fellow Guizhouren. Then i will head back to the states for a month to visit friends and family. Although for some reason i feel more excited about Chengdu than i do about going home.
Tomorrow night i will have Bean Hot Pot with Jonny as part of our final and proper goodbye. The next day i will board a train and be headed to Chengdu! I'm looking forward to the next few weeks and next year!
Thursday, July 2, 2009
FSOT Results
So at about 2am this morning i received my letter giving me the results of my FSOT. Unfortunately i did not pass this time, but i am requesting the breakdown of how i did on each section and will try again next year. Therefore i am going to look into other things to do when i am done with PC. That does include grad schools and possible jobs. I am leaning more towards grad school at the moment because i think that will be very helpful in my goal of becoming an FSO. So i guess i will not only be studying for the FSOT again but also for the GREs. Anyone got any tips?
Not much going on here, i finish my last Final Exam today at about 4:30. Therefore i will have nothing but grading to do for the next two weeks before i head to Chengdu, and the grading will take one day.
Not much going on here, i finish my last Final Exam today at about 4:30. Therefore i will have nothing but grading to do for the next two weeks before i head to Chengdu, and the grading will take one day.
Thursday, June 25, 2009
"Hamlet" and more
This semester is almost over, i have finished my post grads, classes and grades. So thats one less thing that i have to worry about, now i can focus on my freshman and sophomore students, i only have one more week with them. I am pretty sure that i will be teaching my freshman again next year, but i dont think i will have the sophomores again. I've asked to teach an American culture class and hopefully i will get to teach it and it will be with my now sophomore students.
Tuesday night i travelled to GuiDa (Guizhou University), the best school in Guizhou, to watch Dave's student put on their performance of Hamlet. I had seen them practice their show about a month ago, i watched it as a favor to Dave becuase he has never directed a play before and has very little experience with putting on a play or anythign else that has to do with drama. So i watch thier practice and gave them some tips of things that i had saw that they could change/make better. After watching the practice i knew that they would do a good job on the actual performance. I was wrong, they did and AMAZING job performing Hamlet. I could not beleive how great it was, i knew that they students were amazing but i did not realize that they were better than i could have even imagined. I was so proud of those students, it was great to see how much it had changed and transformed since i watched them a month ago during their practice. I was not only proud of the student but also of Dave becuase he did a OUTSTANDING job directing his first play ever. For someone who had never had any experience in drama he was able to block and cheograph Hamlet with very little outside help. He and a fellow teacher of his at Guida directed the play, but both him and his collegue had little or no experience. It was amazing and i am very proud of everyone envolved.
However, it also made me very jealous and sad. Jealous becuase i could not be up on that stage with them or with Dave helping him direct and make sure that everything was running smoothly. Sad because i miss drama so much, i havent realized it becuase i havent been exposed to it in a long time. It also made me really want to do something like this at my school, so i think i may try next year. See if any students are interested, maybe a competition or a whole play. We will see what my students are interested, i can only hope that my students have half the interested that Dave's students have.
The new volunteers will arrive in China in about a week, I'm very excited for the new volunteers but also very sad at the same time becuase all my fellow 13s will be leaving shortly. I'm excited to meet the new volunteers and spend two weeks in Chengdu being a Model School mentor. I will get to spend two weeks with the trainees helping them to adjust to teaching in China and answer any and all their questions they may have. Just before i start Model School Mentoring i will be saying goodbye to my 13s. But it's not goodbye, its c-ya later.
Tuesday night i travelled to GuiDa (Guizhou University), the best school in Guizhou, to watch Dave's student put on their performance of Hamlet. I had seen them practice their show about a month ago, i watched it as a favor to Dave becuase he has never directed a play before and has very little experience with putting on a play or anythign else that has to do with drama. So i watch thier practice and gave them some tips of things that i had saw that they could change/make better. After watching the practice i knew that they would do a good job on the actual performance. I was wrong, they did and AMAZING job performing Hamlet. I could not beleive how great it was, i knew that they students were amazing but i did not realize that they were better than i could have even imagined. I was so proud of those students, it was great to see how much it had changed and transformed since i watched them a month ago during their practice. I was not only proud of the student but also of Dave becuase he did a OUTSTANDING job directing his first play ever. For someone who had never had any experience in drama he was able to block and cheograph Hamlet with very little outside help. He and a fellow teacher of his at Guida directed the play, but both him and his collegue had little or no experience. It was amazing and i am very proud of everyone envolved.
However, it also made me very jealous and sad. Jealous becuase i could not be up on that stage with them or with Dave helping him direct and make sure that everything was running smoothly. Sad because i miss drama so much, i havent realized it becuase i havent been exposed to it in a long time. It also made me really want to do something like this at my school, so i think i may try next year. See if any students are interested, maybe a competition or a whole play. We will see what my students are interested, i can only hope that my students have half the interested that Dave's students have.
The new volunteers will arrive in China in about a week, I'm very excited for the new volunteers but also very sad at the same time becuase all my fellow 13s will be leaving shortly. I'm excited to meet the new volunteers and spend two weeks in Chengdu being a Model School mentor. I will get to spend two weeks with the trainees helping them to adjust to teaching in China and answer any and all their questions they may have. Just before i start Model School Mentoring i will be saying goodbye to my 13s. But it's not goodbye, its c-ya later.
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
PROM!
On Saturday June 13, 2009 Jonny (my sitemate) & I held a Prom at our school, Guiyang Medical College. There were many reason we decided to hold this event. Some of those reason are because we wanted to expose our students and the students of the college to more American culture, another was becuase a large number of our students told us that their college life was very boring and they wanted to make it more colorful. So Jonny and I set out to make our students' lives more colorful. We were very successful! The students that came to Prom, as well as our foreign friends enjoyed themselves and wished that it could have been longer. The Prom started at about 8pm and ended at 10pm, the reason that it ended at 10 was because thats when we were told it had to end. Our college is in close proximity to where other people live, so before when events have been held there have been many noise complaints, so to avoid those complaints we had to end early. There were many students that had moaned as we turned on the lights to tell them that it was over, becuase they wanted to continue dancing and having fun!
The idea of Prom came about last semester. Jonny and I were talking about our students journals that they had written for us. We had both noticed how many of our stuents talked about the lack of activities for them to do. We remebered being in college and even high school we went to many events that our schools hosted, mostly dances, so we decided to have a Prom and event all the students of our school. It wasnt until about two weeks before the actual Prom that it really started to seem like a reality. We got all the materials for decorating and advertising, and started to really make plans for this Prom. The Monday before Prom Jonny & I held a lecture to teach students a little more about Prom and why we wanted to hold one at the college. We had about 30-50 students come to the lecture. We talked about the traditions and taught them the Electric Slide. Thursday we had a session to make the decorations as well as corsages and boutonnieres. Then Saturday afternoon we had about 40 students help us decorate for the Prom, it was so stressful and so fun at the same time. I have some control issues so trying to let students decorate was a little difficult at first but eventually i was able to and it turned out amazing.
After finishing decorating I returned home to get ready with Dulce. Dave and Lin hung out at my place while us girls got ready. Jonny & I had planned to have dinner with the other foreigners before the Prom started. When i was ready Dave and I headed over to the cafeteria and ordered our dinner and waited for everyone else to show up. We had a lovely Meatball Hot Pot dinner before Prom, it was very delicious. Then it was time to add teh finsihing touches to the Prom area before the students showed up. We had to set up the corsages and boutonnieres for the stduents to buy, the money went to another volunteer's secondary project, we also had to set up the refreshments and table for the students to put their names into raffle for the possibilty to be Prom King or Queen. When everything was finalized Jonny & I went to let the students in. At first the students were scared to dance, but as the foreigners started to dance and bring the students onto the dance floor it looked more and more like an actual Prom. Throughout the evening we played certain songs that were group cherographed dances (Which we had taught out Freshman and Sophomore students), we played the chicken dance, the hokey pokey, and the Macareana. We also crowned a Prince, Princess, King, and Queen. After crowning we made them dance together, which was a bit weird for the students because in Chinese culture guys and girls do not touch unles they are dating, but they danced together without much argument. It was so much fun! Everyone that attended had fun, and i cannot wait to do this again next year.
Now that i have discribed the evening here are some links to pictures from the evening. http://picasaweb.google.com/GMC.Prom & http://picasaweb.google.com/pcvkim
I hope you enjoy the pictures!
The idea of Prom came about last semester. Jonny and I were talking about our students journals that they had written for us. We had both noticed how many of our stuents talked about the lack of activities for them to do. We remebered being in college and even high school we went to many events that our schools hosted, mostly dances, so we decided to have a Prom and event all the students of our school. It wasnt until about two weeks before the actual Prom that it really started to seem like a reality. We got all the materials for decorating and advertising, and started to really make plans for this Prom. The Monday before Prom Jonny & I held a lecture to teach students a little more about Prom and why we wanted to hold one at the college. We had about 30-50 students come to the lecture. We talked about the traditions and taught them the Electric Slide. Thursday we had a session to make the decorations as well as corsages and boutonnieres. Then Saturday afternoon we had about 40 students help us decorate for the Prom, it was so stressful and so fun at the same time. I have some control issues so trying to let students decorate was a little difficult at first but eventually i was able to and it turned out amazing.
After finishing decorating I returned home to get ready with Dulce. Dave and Lin hung out at my place while us girls got ready. Jonny & I had planned to have dinner with the other foreigners before the Prom started. When i was ready Dave and I headed over to the cafeteria and ordered our dinner and waited for everyone else to show up. We had a lovely Meatball Hot Pot dinner before Prom, it was very delicious. Then it was time to add teh finsihing touches to the Prom area before the students showed up. We had to set up the corsages and boutonnieres for the stduents to buy, the money went to another volunteer's secondary project, we also had to set up the refreshments and table for the students to put their names into raffle for the possibilty to be Prom King or Queen. When everything was finalized Jonny & I went to let the students in. At first the students were scared to dance, but as the foreigners started to dance and bring the students onto the dance floor it looked more and more like an actual Prom. Throughout the evening we played certain songs that were group cherographed dances (Which we had taught out Freshman and Sophomore students), we played the chicken dance, the hokey pokey, and the Macareana. We also crowned a Prince, Princess, King, and Queen. After crowning we made them dance together, which was a bit weird for the students because in Chinese culture guys and girls do not touch unles they are dating, but they danced together without much argument. It was so much fun! Everyone that attended had fun, and i cannot wait to do this again next year.
Now that i have discribed the evening here are some links to pictures from the evening. http://picasaweb.google.com/GMC.Prom & http://picasaweb.google.com/pcvkim
I hope you enjoy the pictures!
Friday, June 12, 2009
Realizations
I have come to realize a few things...
The first: I dont write in this blog as often as i had once hoped i would. Therefore i am going to make an effort to do so as i go into my third year of Peace Corps.
The 2nd: I have had a very different experience here in Peace Corps than i every thought i would. I came into Peace Corps with the expectation that i would teach English and travel around (very low expectations if i do say so myself). I never thought that i would ever convince myself to stay for three years and yet i am. I never expect to have to go to Thailand to have my gallbladder remove, yet i was there all by myself for 10 days. I never expected to go home during my service, I went home twice, both times for emergency leave (July 08 & October 08). There are many other things that i never would have expected to happen and yet they did. But i would not want to change my experience for anything.
The 3rd: That i lasted this long and am staying for a third year! There were many points before i came here and when i first got here that i seriously considered staying in NY or returning to NY for various reason. Looking back on all those times i think myself crazy. I would have missed out on so many wonderful things that i have here in China. I have missed a lot of important events back in the states (my two best friends from college getting married, my sister raising her son (i was there for the birth because i happened to be home on emergency leave, otherwise i would have missed that as well) and so many other things) all those things together cannot measure up to the experiences that i have had here. Also i think that it is natural to doubt your own decision especially when so many people you are close to are doing things that are normal, like going to grad school, getting married, and getting jobs. They way i look at it is that they are just different from me and that is the path that their life is taking them down and this is my path.
The 4th: What i thought i would do when i was done with Peace Corps is not the same as when i first graduated college and came to China. When i first came here i said that i was going to return to the US after 2 years go to grad school for special education and become a Special Ed. teacher. Now i dont really want to teach in the states ever again. I want a life abroad, i want to be able to live in other countries for a year or tow then move to another country. I want to be able to travel the world and learn all about other cultures. My dream as alwaays been to travel the world, i dont want to lose that dream. Therefore my dream job has changed, as of this moment my dream job is to become a Foreign Service Officer, if that doesnt work out, then i will keep trying. While i try i will go to grad school study international relations or something along those lines, find another job that is similar and just learn and grow until i am capable to do the job of an FSO!
As my next year progresses i will not only talk about what is happening but i will also reflect on things that have happened over the past 2 years. There are many things that have happened to me that i think i should share because they are things that other current PCVs and future PCVs may find helpful. In addition, i think it may be helpful to myself to write about them. For now...
Peace Out Homeslice ;)
The first: I dont write in this blog as often as i had once hoped i would. Therefore i am going to make an effort to do so as i go into my third year of Peace Corps.
The 2nd: I have had a very different experience here in Peace Corps than i every thought i would. I came into Peace Corps with the expectation that i would teach English and travel around (very low expectations if i do say so myself). I never thought that i would ever convince myself to stay for three years and yet i am. I never expect to have to go to Thailand to have my gallbladder remove, yet i was there all by myself for 10 days. I never expected to go home during my service, I went home twice, both times for emergency leave (July 08 & October 08). There are many other things that i never would have expected to happen and yet they did. But i would not want to change my experience for anything.
The 3rd: That i lasted this long and am staying for a third year! There were many points before i came here and when i first got here that i seriously considered staying in NY or returning to NY for various reason. Looking back on all those times i think myself crazy. I would have missed out on so many wonderful things that i have here in China. I have missed a lot of important events back in the states (my two best friends from college getting married, my sister raising her son (i was there for the birth because i happened to be home on emergency leave, otherwise i would have missed that as well) and so many other things) all those things together cannot measure up to the experiences that i have had here. Also i think that it is natural to doubt your own decision especially when so many people you are close to are doing things that are normal, like going to grad school, getting married, and getting jobs. They way i look at it is that they are just different from me and that is the path that their life is taking them down and this is my path.
The 4th: What i thought i would do when i was done with Peace Corps is not the same as when i first graduated college and came to China. When i first came here i said that i was going to return to the US after 2 years go to grad school for special education and become a Special Ed. teacher. Now i dont really want to teach in the states ever again. I want a life abroad, i want to be able to live in other countries for a year or tow then move to another country. I want to be able to travel the world and learn all about other cultures. My dream as alwaays been to travel the world, i dont want to lose that dream. Therefore my dream job has changed, as of this moment my dream job is to become a Foreign Service Officer, if that doesnt work out, then i will keep trying. While i try i will go to grad school study international relations or something along those lines, find another job that is similar and just learn and grow until i am capable to do the job of an FSO!
As my next year progresses i will not only talk about what is happening but i will also reflect on things that have happened over the past 2 years. There are many things that have happened to me that i think i should share because they are things that other current PCVs and future PCVs may find helpful. In addition, i think it may be helpful to myself to write about them. For now...
Peace Out Homeslice ;)
Sunday, June 15, 2008
A Year in Review
Lately i have been looking back and remembering what has happened over the past year. I have been out of college for over a year, i have been in china for almost one year, in exactly 15 days i will have been in China for a year. I cant believe where i have and gone in the past year. I haven't changed much, but i have changed a lot. I miss my family and friends so much, and in the past few weeks i have missed them so much more. Things are so much different than i ever expected them to be, i am so different than i expected myself to be. i thought that i would be more involved in my community, i thought i would be hanging out with my students, i thought i would be making a difference in their English. I thought i would be happy, and yet i sometimes feel happy, but in the end i have realized that i am in fact not happy, i just put a front on and even fool myself. I shouldn't do that anymore, not to myself anyway. I'm not entirely happy, and i am admitting that. Now i just need to realize what i need to do to make myself happy. For one thing i know i need to get out more, i need to exercise, take walks, lost weight, stop eating so much junk food. The junk food is not healthy for me, seeing how i do not have a gallbladder the fat is not being broken down well. I not only need to figure out how to become happy, but i need to figure out what is making me not so happy.
Anyway, there has not been much going on. I am starting to wrap up my semester. I start oral finals with my post grads this week and next week i am giving them their listening/written final. The first week of July i have my finals for my Freshman and Sophomores. I am looking forward to ending the semester, it certainly has been a rough one. I recently got my assignment for summer project. The volunteers of China have a two week summer project, where us volunteers go into different parts of provinces. Here in Guizhou we were split into four groups and are going to four different counties here in Guizhou to teach teachers for two weeks. I am going to Weng'An with Dave for two weeks. We got stuck with just each other for two weeks. We do not know what exactly we are doing yet, but i am the group leader, because Dave is busy, which means i will be traveling in the next few weeks to talk to the people that are in charge of us while we are doing our summer project. I am a little scared about doing this but at the same time i am excited because this gives me a chance to show PC what i can do, i can also show myself what i can do. I doubt myself that i can do it, that i would do a good job, that i wont screw something up and just mess up Dave and my summer project. But i can do it, i just need to believe in myself and trust that i can do it. Anyway i am excited for summer project and i am excited to be working with Dave for two weeks. Although i do wish slightly that there were more of us, but i can do with just Dave for two weeks, you never know what will happen.
All in all i am doing well, and things are good. This past year has been interesting, and i wouldn't change it for a thing. I've learned so much in this past year than i think i ever did in my four years of college. I've changed my mind in the past year at least four times as to what i want to do in the future. I want to be a special education teacher, i want to be a counselor, i want to be a politician, i don't want to go to grad school. I still have one more year here to try and decide what i want to do with my future.
Anyway, there has not been much going on. I am starting to wrap up my semester. I start oral finals with my post grads this week and next week i am giving them their listening/written final. The first week of July i have my finals for my Freshman and Sophomores. I am looking forward to ending the semester, it certainly has been a rough one. I recently got my assignment for summer project. The volunteers of China have a two week summer project, where us volunteers go into different parts of provinces. Here in Guizhou we were split into four groups and are going to four different counties here in Guizhou to teach teachers for two weeks. I am going to Weng'An with Dave for two weeks. We got stuck with just each other for two weeks. We do not know what exactly we are doing yet, but i am the group leader, because Dave is busy, which means i will be traveling in the next few weeks to talk to the people that are in charge of us while we are doing our summer project. I am a little scared about doing this but at the same time i am excited because this gives me a chance to show PC what i can do, i can also show myself what i can do. I doubt myself that i can do it, that i would do a good job, that i wont screw something up and just mess up Dave and my summer project. But i can do it, i just need to believe in myself and trust that i can do it. Anyway i am excited for summer project and i am excited to be working with Dave for two weeks. Although i do wish slightly that there were more of us, but i can do with just Dave for two weeks, you never know what will happen.
All in all i am doing well, and things are good. This past year has been interesting, and i wouldn't change it for a thing. I've learned so much in this past year than i think i ever did in my four years of college. I've changed my mind in the past year at least four times as to what i want to do in the future. I want to be a special education teacher, i want to be a counselor, i want to be a politician, i don't want to go to grad school. I still have one more year here to try and decide what i want to do with my future.
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