done with school!
Yesterday was the last day of classes for our school, so now I have completed my first year of teaching! We still have a year-end recuperation test next Saturday (where kids who failed can take a cumulative test to pass the year), but that shouldn't be too much work. After that I will have to stay around for another two weeks cleaning up and doing other odd jobs to finish out the year, but it should all be pretty easy. After work ends I am staying around for a few days to travel with some friends and I finally fly home on June 28th (back to Chicago for a few days, then to Wichita after that).Right now I have a mixture of emotions- it was sad to see all of the kids go and to know that I won't see many of them again. I've invested a lot of emotional energy into them this year and now it's over. I hope that I touched their lives in some way. Now I'm looking to the future- excited to return to family and friends and also trying to figure out what I'll do next. I am pretty sure that I want to head back to graduate school and it looks like I might be able to start this fall. There are several programs in Chicago that I am looking into which deal with Nonprofit Management and there is one that has a dual degree with Christian Ministry as well. I think that studying something like that would be really useful in whatever direction I end up going- whether it be a NGO, a ministry or some kind of nonprofit (and either in the States or overseas). So I'm going to keep checking into my options and we will see what comes together.
But for now, I'm going to continue to make the best of the time I have remaining in Honduras. I continue to improve my Spanish everyday and I am still playing a lot of music. This weekend I'm playing in church again and next weekend I'll probably be playing in a local club with another band that I'm in. Hopefully we can squeeze out a few more shows before we all leave...
posted by Whitey @ 2:03 PM
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