Goals and Grumblings
Goals are big scary things. My main goal is of course becoming a responsible English teacher over in Japan. I want to teach lower-income or delinquent children, preferably high-school aged. I'd really like to live in a community near the school so I could commute by foot.
However, to do this I have sooooooo many things that have to get dealt with. Agoraphobia for one. Panic attacks are not a good thing. So I plan to get and train a PSD (Psychiatric Service Dog), which requires: affording, finding, training, and certifying said dog. Then there's the educational side. I need to graduate--in other words, finish my last semester, so I have to go back to school, get a TSEL certification, and learn Japanese to at least a minimal level of fluency and literacy. This just requires buckling down and really studying, which I am (slowly) doing. And then there's just getting in better health physically and spiritually, and, hopefully, financially. (Financially means finding a way of making a higher income while working on all the other stuff, which is also a pain when you can't really go outside well.) I really need to be writing more than I do, or at least finishing the stuff that I write. I have a lot of half-baked blogs which aren't postable yet. I should get those done... hmmm...
Goals are scary. Have I said that before? Haha. Anyway, I am working on a plan. I think these should be my first steps:
1. Health: Try to at least take a walk everyday.
2. Emotional: Find dog for training.
3. Spiritual: Just try to be more dedicated in reading Scripture/praying. I used to have a habit, which I need to rebuild.
4. Educational: Contact Covenant, work on Japanese verb conjugations, write more in general to get words moving.
There we go. That's a starting point I guess. I'll work up from there.
However, to do this I have sooooooo many things that have to get dealt with. Agoraphobia for one. Panic attacks are not a good thing. So I plan to get and train a PSD (Psychiatric Service Dog), which requires: affording, finding, training, and certifying said dog. Then there's the educational side. I need to graduate--in other words, finish my last semester, so I have to go back to school, get a TSEL certification, and learn Japanese to at least a minimal level of fluency and literacy. This just requires buckling down and really studying, which I am (slowly) doing. And then there's just getting in better health physically and spiritually, and, hopefully, financially. (Financially means finding a way of making a higher income while working on all the other stuff, which is also a pain when you can't really go outside well.) I really need to be writing more than I do, or at least finishing the stuff that I write. I have a lot of half-baked blogs which aren't postable yet. I should get those done... hmmm...
Goals are scary. Have I said that before? Haha. Anyway, I am working on a plan. I think these should be my first steps:
1. Health: Try to at least take a walk everyday.
2. Emotional: Find dog for training.
3. Spiritual: Just try to be more dedicated in reading Scripture/praying. I used to have a habit, which I need to rebuild.
4. Educational: Contact Covenant, work on Japanese verb conjugations, write more in general to get words moving.
There we go. That's a starting point I guess. I'll work up from there.