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Life is exciting. Anyone who thinks otherwise simply hasn't gotten out enough.
I applied to be a camp counselor at this place in Japan where American students go to teach english. They pay for all your expenses if you get picked, including the flight over and back. It's ridiculous.
Goodwill is going well. We're going into D.C. for a site visit tomorrow and then later that night is our monthly meeting which I am facilitating. The work is fine and there is a lot of independence. Sometimes it can be boring and sometimes the people annoy me but it's pretty nice overall.
I'm going up to New York in March for a weekend or so to see the City Year crew and to hang out with Byron some. I'm really excited. New York is a much better place to visit than live, I think. Unless you're lucky enough to live in the village or have everything paid for like Byron. Living in Harlem was too harsh. I couldn't be ignorant to the lives around me. Cheaper rent wasn't worth staring that kind of desperation in the face everyday. Historic or not.
I drove into Frederick, MD yesterday. Its this amazingly cute, historic old town. There are civil war battlefields around it and the houses are all row houses and my boss lives there in one of those homes and she has it done up so nicely I can hardly stand it. We walked around and looked in the cute shops, ate at this bomb mexican restaurant and went to a brewery where I got a "Kolsch" which wasn't bad at all. Zarinah's been pulling some weird emotional BS and I don't think she realizes how much that stresses Tricia out. As if a pregnant, unhappy lady needs more stress. But anyway, the town was cute, beer was good and the drive there was quite scenic.
I've been entertaining teaching english in foreign countries and/or organic farming as possible future endeavors. I have a lot of opportunities to take advantage of as far as the organic farming goes. WWOOF is one, my cousins business ISLAND is another, this friend of Robin's in Watsonville is yet another. The TEFL stuff is more risky. I'd have to pay to get certified and then try to find work in China or Thailand or something like that. Its a real possibility and I could follow it up with attempting a BA in Education or something but I don't know. I like having the options though. I have a wealth of opportunities. We all do, you just need the balls to grab them.
Overall, things are good. Sometimes they get so good I can't stand it and other times I get low, low, low. But there is love and food and shelter and work and passion and goodness in my life. And adventure. Who could as for anything more?
I applied to be a camp counselor at this place in Japan where American students go to teach english. They pay for all your expenses if you get picked, including the flight over and back. It's ridiculous.
Goodwill is going well. We're going into D.C. for a site visit tomorrow and then later that night is our monthly meeting which I am facilitating. The work is fine and there is a lot of independence. Sometimes it can be boring and sometimes the people annoy me but it's pretty nice overall.
I'm going up to New York in March for a weekend or so to see the City Year crew and to hang out with Byron some. I'm really excited. New York is a much better place to visit than live, I think. Unless you're lucky enough to live in the village or have everything paid for like Byron. Living in Harlem was too harsh. I couldn't be ignorant to the lives around me. Cheaper rent wasn't worth staring that kind of desperation in the face everyday. Historic or not.
I drove into Frederick, MD yesterday. Its this amazingly cute, historic old town. There are civil war battlefields around it and the houses are all row houses and my boss lives there in one of those homes and she has it done up so nicely I can hardly stand it. We walked around and looked in the cute shops, ate at this bomb mexican restaurant and went to a brewery where I got a "Kolsch" which wasn't bad at all. Zarinah's been pulling some weird emotional BS and I don't think she realizes how much that stresses Tricia out. As if a pregnant, unhappy lady needs more stress. But anyway, the town was cute, beer was good and the drive there was quite scenic.
I've been entertaining teaching english in foreign countries and/or organic farming as possible future endeavors. I have a lot of opportunities to take advantage of as far as the organic farming goes. WWOOF is one, my cousins business ISLAND is another, this friend of Robin's in Watsonville is yet another. The TEFL stuff is more risky. I'd have to pay to get certified and then try to find work in China or Thailand or something like that. Its a real possibility and I could follow it up with attempting a BA in Education or something but I don't know. I like having the options though. I have a wealth of opportunities. We all do, you just need the balls to grab them.
Overall, things are good. Sometimes they get so good I can't stand it and other times I get low, low, low. But there is love and food and shelter and work and passion and goodness in my life. And adventure. Who could as for anything more?