refreshed

This trip has been good for me... I am dreading going back on so many different levels, partly because I know that I will be hitting the ground running hard on Monday morning and it won't stop again until school is out, but I am trying not to think about it too much and just take it one day at a time. Always one day at a time...

We met with some old church family friends last night, some of whom I haven't seen since I was in kindergarten living here, but I found out that one of my Sunday school buddies from way back in the day just finished his teaching degree last spring and is going to teach this fall in Morocco at the same school I'm looking at there! How crazy is that? I guess he just signed a contract for two years already, so we'd definitely overlap if I went there next spring to do my student teaching. I couldn't believe it when I heard... God is so cool. ;-)

In other news, I'm looking to get my certification in TESOL this summer! I'm really excited! I've been planning on getting certified for the last 2 years now, but I always thought that I would wait until after I graduated to look into it. It wasn't until yesterday that I even considered doing it earlier... Turns out I can take a 4 week long intensive program, put in 120 hours, and get an internationally recognized certificate! It just opens so many more doors for me doing it early instead of waiting -- it means that I could start teaching ESL for the overseas part of my student teaching in the spring, and that instead of waiting to go overseas after my student teaching until I get certified, I could potentially leave for full-time overseas work right after I finish my student teaching. Also, just in terms of finding a job, I will be certified to teach 3 subject areas next spring (English, Spanish, and TESOL) instead of 2.

The trouble now is just finding something to do with the rest of my summer this summer. Ha.. Assuming that I've got to be back for soccer at the beginning of August, and I'll be taking intense classes for 4 weeks straight, that only leaves me with about 6 weeks of summer, and that doesn't make me a great candidate for finding much summer work... I'm praying hard that God will provide..

He always, always has. :-)