School’s out for summer!
After one gruelling month, my class is finished…and I passed. 🙂
Here’s a happy ‘last day’ photo of my fellow trainees and a few of our students. Okay…it’s no one’s best photo to be honest. From L-R: Orion, Nadine, Alan, Brian, Anne, Camillo (student), Bruce, Ingrid (s), Andrea (s), Emily and me.
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I can’t believe the class is over already. It seemed a lot like hell when I was doing it (4 papers, 10 classes to teach, plus everything to learn!), but I loved it just the same. It was an amazing experience…and I can’t wait to teach.
It seems, though, that I won’t be starting for awhile. I’ve already got the next few months planned out…and they don’t involve teaching. Ideally, in fact, it won’t be till early 2007 that I start, giving me time to find a job, deal with my apartment (and stuff) in NYC and get all my paperwork sorted before moving across continents.
But first, I’m off to Sacramento, California to attend my sister’s graduation. Then we’ll be driving back across country, finally reaching Maryland where I’ll be helping Katie to settle in to her new house. (i.e. I’m a moving man.)
Then it’s off to Morocco again, for most of July and August to visit Zakaria. (Maybe I can get some teaching practice in there. There are tons of people in Morocco who want help with English.)
Which puts me back in NYC in September. How does this happen? I feel like I shouldn’t unpack my bags.
It’s fuinny…when I decided to quit my job in real estate in early 2005 I had no idea the path I’d soon be on. I knew about the travelling, that I’d be off around the world…I just didn’t realize I’d keep going. My wanderlust is as strong as it ever was. When I look at a map, I dream of all the places I haven’t seen yet…and all those I want to return to. My RTW didn’t put out the fire, it was really just the ember waiting to ignite.
Now I have a tool (my teaching cert.) that will allow me to explore the globe even further…to live and work like a local, all around the world. Japan is where I’m headed first…but it’s just one stop along my path.
It’s great to have perfect hindsight. I now know, absolutely, quitting my old life was the best idea I ever had.
Life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-Grandma Moses
Tags: Life at 'Home'
LizG
Dear Ms. Poet
awesome!!! I am so happy that life is panning out as it should for you. To know that things are unfolding as they should is a wonderful thing. I cant wait to meet you in Japan and see how much you will be inspiring the folks out there – if I wasnt drunk as a lord now I would go and get smashed for you.
Philip