Traveling...or Peace Corps?

Still nothing too exciting. Daniel was here last weekend, as well as my friend Liam and his two roommates. Plus my roommates were home, so we had a huge, exhausted, 20-somethings party. We were sadly all, as I say, exhausted. So it was mild at most. But nice to see them all.

This week has flown by--Jonas arrived on Monday evening, and so that has certainly made things seem to move more quickly. Yesterday I left work early since last week I was here one day for 11 hours, and I went to Century 21 with Jonas, then we went to a comedy show. Sadly, the comedy show (same place I went with Daniel) was really quite lame. But whatever.

As far as work...things have stayed fairly busy. I'm still teaching my puberty class at MS54 for 3 more weeks, and I'm adding on another class of 8th grade girls whose teacher thinks are in "danger," though from my assessment yesterday, she's crazy. (not that disseminating information is ever a bad thing, but really. she's crazy).

Anyhoo, what I really wanted to write about today is the Peace Corps. I had never seriously considered it before, party because it's such a long time commitment. But being older and wiser, 27 months looks shorter and shorter. And I really want to live abroad. And I want health care experience. And I want to practice my Spanish. So yesterday, I was in the Ryan Center (our main Community Health Center) and said hi to one of the co-workers there who I worked on a project with...and she told me she had done the Peace Corps. Anyway, she started telling me about her experience, and I asked her some questions, and I sort of thought, "why hadn't I considered this before?? It's perfect for me!" So I went on their website and started the application today. Not that I'm definitely going to finish it. But it's not looking so bad right now.

I still have this feeling of needing to go on an adventure. And maybe I'm someone who will never get rid of that, considering the adventurous things I've already done. But I'm certainly not ready to put down any roots. And since I have that outlook, and I really want to help people, I just think it could be a great opportunity for me. And the more I think about it, the more perfect it seems for me. Anyway, if I DO go, you can bet your britches I'll keep a blog. I'll try to be better about it than I've been with this one. But I'm kind of really excited about the prospect of this adventure...I know it's a little crazy. But I'm up for that. I also know I'd get a lot out of it. Lemme know what you think!