Long-overdue Post

So I know it’s been a while since I updated this… sorry about that. Life got kind of crazy and has been a rollercoaster ride. Since February, I’ve graduated from college (where did those 4 years go?...), turned 22, moved back home, spent a week in London with 3 amazing friends, worked at a law firm for a couple of weeks, worked for 3 weeks with a non-profit in Charlotte as a teacher for both adults and 2nd graders in their English tutoring program, gotten my wisdom teeth out, and driven across the country to San Francisco with a great guy. To be sure, I’ve been all over the place. It has been an adjustment since graduating, and all of my younger friends recently having returned to Vanderbilt for the new school year, it has been weird not going back myself, especially because my friends who are my age have all either gone back to school themselves (grad school, med school etc) or started their new jobs, leaving me home alone in a sense. But now I have some new things going on:

As for my future plans, plans for PC have been in limbo, changed, halted, changed again haha it’s been up and down. BUT the real deal is: I finally got medical, dental, and legal clearance completed in early July (after having my wisdom teem out in June and jumping through a few insurance hoops). Since then I have been waiting to hear something from them since I knew I was not going to be leaving on my original July departure date. After doing a little more paperwork a few weeks ago, I received an email from my placement officer and talked with her on the phone early last week. After a bit of a difficult conversation with her, she said that she was going to forward my application into the next stage and was going to find a placement for me! The only catch: I’m no longer going to Africa. Apparently the next time they are sending volunteers to French-speaking Africa is next summer. SO that means that I am now headed to Central or South America in January!

Another great thing that came of my conversation with my placement officer is that she said she would send me a formal invitation within the next couple of weeks. Yikes! Hopefully soon I will have all of the information I need to make that final decision. As for now, I’m on the search for job options for the fall – hopefully I can continue to get some teaching experience, but making some money would be nice as well… who knows what shenanigans I’ll get myself into.

And as I wanted to keep up my sharing fun tidbits… here is the link to my friend’s blog to just left for PC service in Namibia!! I’m fascinated to read all about her experiences in anticipation of my own.