Oh my gosh, you guys. It's fall. AKA my most favorite time of year ever. Leaves on the ground and chilly mornings and sweaters and the smell! of bonfires and dying grass, I love it, I do
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Only once? Do they not have autumn in Australia? That is so sad for you. :( I'll have to send you some dead leaves or something. ^_^
And...yeah. Everything you're saying is stuff that I've thought about, or been thinking about. Which is why I'm just complaining and not actually doing anything about it (yet). Getting certified to be a schoolteacher will take me, if I didn't do anything else on top of it, two years. I can maybe get out in a year and a half if I do summer classes...but I'm probably going to get an ESL certification this summer, if I can swing the tuition somehow. So two years. If I get into the English department's program I'm hoping I can be done with both degrees in three years. Which is probably what I'll do; it seems the most practical and also something that'll make me happy. And having two Masters' degrees will make it easier to get a more kick-ass high school job in a better district, etc.
I think a lot of the problem is that I haven't found my niche here yet, I haven't really met people I actually like (ie, I have no friends here) and the classes I'm in right now frankly kind of suck. So I'm going to give it more time, and not make any major life decisions until next, like, August.
And I have to find myself a new adviser ASAP, because the one I have currently basically told me to go screw myself because she's not a part of my program. So that's awesome.
Well, I live in the tropics, not a temperate climate. The southern half of Australia is temperate, though.
I sympathise on the making friends thing. I came back to my hometown and now I have, like, two friends who haven't moved away. Woe. Meeting people is easy but meeting people you like is definitely hard. But it does happen, just in time. I can remember in my first couple of months in Leeds I was sad because I had lots of guy friends and various acquaintances, but no good girly friends to be girly with. Sometimes it takes a while for people to become comfortable with each other, which you tend to forget when you've been used to the same people and the same networks for a while.
Your adviser, on the other hand, clearly sucks upfront. Definitely look for a new one!
I'll have to send you some dead leaves or something. ^_^
And...yeah. Everything you're saying is stuff that I've thought about, or been thinking about. Which is why I'm just complaining and not actually doing anything about it (yet). Getting certified to be a schoolteacher will take me, if I didn't do anything else on top of it, two years. I can maybe get out in a year and a half if I do summer classes...but I'm probably going to get an ESL certification this summer, if I can swing the tuition somehow. So two years. If I get into the English department's program I'm hoping I can be done with both degrees in three years. Which is probably what I'll do; it seems the most practical and also something that'll make me happy. And having two Masters' degrees will make it easier to get a more kick-ass high school job in a better district, etc.
I think a lot of the problem is that I haven't found my niche here yet, I haven't really met people I actually like (ie, I have no friends here) and the classes I'm in right now frankly kind of suck. So I'm going to give it more time, and not make any major life decisions until next, like, August.
And I have to find myself a new adviser ASAP, because the one I have currently basically told me to go screw myself because she's not a part of my program. So that's awesome.
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I sympathise on the making friends thing. I came back to my hometown and now I have, like, two friends who haven't moved away. Woe. Meeting people is easy but meeting people you like is definitely hard. But it does happen, just in time. I can remember in my first couple of months in Leeds I was sad because I had lots of guy friends and various acquaintances, but no good girly friends to be girly with. Sometimes it takes a while for people to become comfortable with each other, which you tend to forget when you've been used to the same people and the same networks for a while.
Your adviser, on the other hand, clearly sucks upfront. Definitely look for a new one!
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