Success! I have been accepted into the Educators Abroad student teaching internship. I get to student teach in any country I want! So the question becomes when/where do I student teach. I am still planning on going to Germany and Ireland, but those stays may have to be shortened in order to fit in a 10 week student teaching program. Either way, this trip is getting more and more exciting - not to mention more and more relevant and useful for my life.
I can't explain the effect simply buying a ticket and fabricating some loose plan based off nothing but what I want to do has had on my life. Before this everything was feeling like a re-run of the last four years. This has been the best decision I have ever made for my own personal growth. I think this happens to everyone, and maybe it's happening to you now - your life just seems dry and weighty. Well what I'm learning is just set a goal, change something! It could be anything, take some risks folks! Here's a bad analogy for you, think of life as two pools...one is a hot tub and the other is, well, it's cold. Hot tubs are awesome, for a while. But after some amount of time they get stuffy, and make people tired and lethargic. The only cure is to hop out that hot tub and giggle and sprint and dive into the cold pool and scream and laugh and remember that hot tub is sitting right there when you get too cold - or too used to the cold.
"I've learned that making a living is not the same as making a life."
- Maya Angalou
About Me
- Will
- I got my Bachelor of Arts in English Literature at WWU and am currently student teaching in amazing Kilcoole, Ireland at Colaiste Chraobh Abhann and if you can say that name, and you're not Irish, my hat is off to you.
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