On the horizon...
So I mailed in my application today for the Dallas teacher certification program for next year. Please keep the process in your thoughts and prayers for me. I'm really excited about this and want to pursue the opportunity to become a teacher. This is the first thing I've been really excited about all year, so I really hope this happens for me. I was so nervous filling out the money order deposit and mailing form today, I was shaking!! I haven't been that anxious about anything in years! Not since receiving my Clemson exceptance later in the mail and even then it wasn't really nerve-racking, since you already know that if it's a big thick envelope it's a good sign.
I've applied for being a middle school or high school english teacher years 4-8 or 9-12...I'm hoping for high school though. I'd much rather focus on literature than grammar and writing techniques. I'm trying not to let my hopes get too high though, since as a communication major, english is the only thing I'm eligible for other than special education, which isn't a field I really think I'm cut out for. So i'll have to compete against all other english majors who have decided to become teachers as well as any communication, journalism, and liberal arts majors as well. I've got good grades and work experience though, so I should at least get called to come out there for an interview:). Which in and of itself would be fun just to get to go to Dallas for a weekend. Especially if I go once the fall semester starts, b/c my best friend from middle school when I lived in Houston is starting grad school at UT Dallas (University of Texas, not Tennessee) in August and it would be awesome to see her again. I haven't seen her since the summer before high school!!
So that's the news on me...
Other info...have I mentioned that my dad got a job? My family will be moving back to Houston around Christmas time or next summer, so if I get this thing in Dallas I'll get to see them more often than two to three times a year so that would be good. I miss them.
I have been 23 now for over a week and for the first time ever I've actually felt older since then. I've never really noticed it before, well except for being able to order a drink on my 21st, but that doesn't really make you feel older, it just ends up making you feel tipsy...haha...or in my case even sicker since I was already feeling a stomach bug all day...
Anyways...I really feel my age. I feel completely detached from fun and lazy days of college where all you want to do is graduate and be a part of the real world no matter how bad everyone says it can be. We have to taste it for ourselves and pay the bills ourselves, before we really realize the responsiblity adulthood holds for us. And I'm okay with that, I just wish there was more of a transition period between the two. Only after being out of a college a few months did I really realize the sort of things I really want to do with my life and how my choice of major may or may not support that. And no it's not too late to figure that out, I know that, but it's alot harder to completely change that once your out of school. It's not as easy as going to the dean's office and then everyone else they send you to play hide and seek with until you get your major changed. You have to find the experience and knowledge on your own or fork out more big bucks to go back to school...easier said then done when you're already sitting a mountain full of loan debt from the first go round that's getting you nowhere.
yet...the struggle and loneliness of this year is helping to strengthen my beliefs and goals. The strong independent person I always believed myself to be has held true and I haven't let it bring me down. It will only make me appreciate it more when I finally find happiness in what I'm doing...
until then I'll keep praying through the storms and keep my fingers crossed until I get a phone call from Dallas:) or Orlando Bloom...hahaha
I've applied for being a middle school or high school english teacher years 4-8 or 9-12...I'm hoping for high school though. I'd much rather focus on literature than grammar and writing techniques. I'm trying not to let my hopes get too high though, since as a communication major, english is the only thing I'm eligible for other than special education, which isn't a field I really think I'm cut out for. So i'll have to compete against all other english majors who have decided to become teachers as well as any communication, journalism, and liberal arts majors as well. I've got good grades and work experience though, so I should at least get called to come out there for an interview:). Which in and of itself would be fun just to get to go to Dallas for a weekend. Especially if I go once the fall semester starts, b/c my best friend from middle school when I lived in Houston is starting grad school at UT Dallas (University of Texas, not Tennessee) in August and it would be awesome to see her again. I haven't seen her since the summer before high school!!
So that's the news on me...
Other info...have I mentioned that my dad got a job? My family will be moving back to Houston around Christmas time or next summer, so if I get this thing in Dallas I'll get to see them more often than two to three times a year so that would be good. I miss them.
I have been 23 now for over a week and for the first time ever I've actually felt older since then. I've never really noticed it before, well except for being able to order a drink on my 21st, but that doesn't really make you feel older, it just ends up making you feel tipsy...haha...or in my case even sicker since I was already feeling a stomach bug all day...
Anyways...I really feel my age. I feel completely detached from fun and lazy days of college where all you want to do is graduate and be a part of the real world no matter how bad everyone says it can be. We have to taste it for ourselves and pay the bills ourselves, before we really realize the responsiblity adulthood holds for us. And I'm okay with that, I just wish there was more of a transition period between the two. Only after being out of a college a few months did I really realize the sort of things I really want to do with my life and how my choice of major may or may not support that. And no it's not too late to figure that out, I know that, but it's alot harder to completely change that once your out of school. It's not as easy as going to the dean's office and then everyone else they send you to play hide and seek with until you get your major changed. You have to find the experience and knowledge on your own or fork out more big bucks to go back to school...easier said then done when you're already sitting a mountain full of loan debt from the first go round that's getting you nowhere.
yet...the struggle and loneliness of this year is helping to strengthen my beliefs and goals. The strong independent person I always believed myself to be has held true and I haven't let it bring me down. It will only make me appreciate it more when I finally find happiness in what I'm doing...
until then I'll keep praying through the storms and keep my fingers crossed until I get a phone call from Dallas:) or Orlando Bloom...hahaha