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I'm bored. I feel like that's how I've spent most of this month, but then I think about it and I've actually had a lot to do. I was still babysitting the first two weeks, and now I have French people at my house. #3 came today. It's nice speaking French again. I feel like I'm making so many mistakes that I didn't make before, though, and that my accent has gotten worse. I also keep feeling like I should be packing and going back to Lyon soon.
I need to do my Teach For America application but I'm stuck on the essay. Not that I've done the letter of intent yet either, but at least there I have ideas. The essay asks you to talk about an obstacle you've faced in the last 4 years in any academic, professional or extracurricular project. I've never faced an obstacle. I always hate this question and this time I can't make it up, like I did on standardized tests in high school. But they want to see how I've reacted to an obstacle, so I feel like I need to think of something. I can't even think of things that would count as appropriate challenges, since what I've found challenging is just the normal challenges of life - writing papers for school, dealing with kids for babysitting ("professional"), controlling actors in stage crew... And I think if I talked about that it would just sound like I can't handle life because those are not obstacles.
Also at some point I should see people I've been meaning to see...
I need to do my Teach For America application but I'm stuck on the essay. Not that I've done the letter of intent yet either, but at least there I have ideas. The essay asks you to talk about an obstacle you've faced in the last 4 years in any academic, professional or extracurricular project. I've never faced an obstacle. I always hate this question and this time I can't make it up, like I did on standardized tests in high school. But they want to see how I've reacted to an obstacle, so I feel like I need to think of something. I can't even think of things that would count as appropriate challenges, since what I've found challenging is just the normal challenges of life - writing papers for school, dealing with kids for babysitting ("professional"), controlling actors in stage crew... And I think if I talked about that it would just sound like I can't handle life because those are not obstacles.
Also at some point I should see people I've been meaning to see...