my bad habit..
i have this bad habit of procrastinating updating my blog for ages until there is so much to write about that I simply can not fit it in a reasonably lengthed blog entry. So I´m left with the choice of writing a ridiculously long entry or leaving out many of the details. Well. In this particular case I think I would like to leave out the details and maybe write about them later. let me just simply catch you all up on where I am now and then I´ll add some fun details and cool pictures (with my sweet new camera) later.
last time I wrote I was teaching 8th grade in Texas. Now I am a student learning Spanish in Guatemala.
At the beginning of June I finished up my first year of teaching which was, as many endings are, bitter sweet. Bitter to leave my students, sweet to not have to go to work any more! I finished up a few days early in fact, in order to make it to my mom´s wedding in California on the 5th. It was lovely and lots of fun to be with family. I love you mom!
After the reception I sped off to the airport in order to make it back to Texas the next day for Susannah´s wedding in Houston. Also lovely. I will miss her and my other good friends in Texas so so much. After that wedding it was back home to finish packing for my impending move back to Utah. I left Monday morning for the long long drive up to Utah. The trip was rather uneventful, but in a good way. My car finally got a name, Sean... which is a big step for any car of mine. Thankfully I had my friend Matt along to keep me company and assist with important passenger duties.
I made it into Utah just in time to start stressing out about my upcoming trip to Guatemala and the fact that I had no job for the fall. But before I could really focus on either of those things I had an Andersen-Phippen Reunion to attend. We had a lot of fun and of course I was delighted by my nieces and nephews the whole time! What cuties! After that was over it was time to worry about packing and finding a job. And in something I can´t term anything but a miracle I was able to do both. I got packed up just fine with some good advice from all of my frequent travelling friends. And I was able to get a job teaching Geography at Independence High School in the fall. It is a part time teaching job, but I am hoping that I may be able to pick up a few more hours around the district as I got along. I am just glad I was able to get something! Plus Independence is a great school and Geography is my favorite!
so now here I am in Guatemala. It is so familiar in so many ways because of the time I spent in the Philippines and all the similarities... but the only problem is that I understand everything in the Philippines and not quite so much here. I´m looking forward to learning as much as I can while I´m here although I know very well that it will be a lot of work. Especially with all this Tagalog I´m trying not to mix in. Wish me luck! I´ll have more time to be on the computer here than I have had in a while so I hopefully will get to backtrack and give some of these events the blog time they deserve.
last time I wrote I was teaching 8th grade in Texas. Now I am a student learning Spanish in Guatemala.
At the beginning of June I finished up my first year of teaching which was, as many endings are, bitter sweet. Bitter to leave my students, sweet to not have to go to work any more! I finished up a few days early in fact, in order to make it to my mom´s wedding in California on the 5th. It was lovely and lots of fun to be with family. I love you mom!
After the reception I sped off to the airport in order to make it back to Texas the next day for Susannah´s wedding in Houston. Also lovely. I will miss her and my other good friends in Texas so so much. After that wedding it was back home to finish packing for my impending move back to Utah. I left Monday morning for the long long drive up to Utah. The trip was rather uneventful, but in a good way. My car finally got a name, Sean... which is a big step for any car of mine. Thankfully I had my friend Matt along to keep me company and assist with important passenger duties.
I made it into Utah just in time to start stressing out about my upcoming trip to Guatemala and the fact that I had no job for the fall. But before I could really focus on either of those things I had an Andersen-Phippen Reunion to attend. We had a lot of fun and of course I was delighted by my nieces and nephews the whole time! What cuties! After that was over it was time to worry about packing and finding a job. And in something I can´t term anything but a miracle I was able to do both. I got packed up just fine with some good advice from all of my frequent travelling friends. And I was able to get a job teaching Geography at Independence High School in the fall. It is a part time teaching job, but I am hoping that I may be able to pick up a few more hours around the district as I got along. I am just glad I was able to get something! Plus Independence is a great school and Geography is my favorite!
so now here I am in Guatemala. It is so familiar in so many ways because of the time I spent in the Philippines and all the similarities... but the only problem is that I understand everything in the Philippines and not quite so much here. I´m looking forward to learning as much as I can while I´m here although I know very well that it will be a lot of work. Especially with all this Tagalog I´m trying not to mix in. Wish me luck! I´ll have more time to be on the computer here than I have had in a while so I hopefully will get to backtrack and give some of these events the blog time they deserve.
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