Knowing that I was graduating in December I spent a lot of time last year thinking about what to do when I graduated. I knew I wanted to teach, but I had a variety of options of how to go about that. The thought of teaching internationally definitely came into my mind early on. I spend time talking to others who had taught outside of the USA, as well as looking into organizations, and missions programs that I could join or participate in, but the more I looked the more overwhelmed I felt and the more discouraged. Nothing I found seemed right for what I wanted or felt called to. Add in some other life factors and I decided to give up on the idea. Clearly God had other plans for me, and I just needed to figure out what those were.
Time continued to pass, and by the end of student teaching I had my next step lined up. I was starting the process to get my substitute teacher license and was ready to do that and then figure out the rest of 2018 after the spring semester. In November and December a lot of things in my life shifted, and as you would expect, shifts bring change. These changes made me look back at why I had chosen to put aside my desire to teach internationally. I also started re-evaluating when I found an opportunity that sounded like a dream come true for me. I looked into this mind-blowing opportunity and the more I learned the more excited I became. It was so much of what I had dreamed of, that I found it impossible to say no to it. After only about a week my mind was made up and I began to take steps to get accepted into this program. After another week or so and a few phone interviews I was accepted! All this to say... this summer I get the exciting opportunity to go teach abroad! I will get to spend six weeks teaching English in Asia. As a high school student my dream was to teach in the USA during the typical school year, and then spend the summers teaching in other countries. While this incredible teaching opportunity may only be for one summer (maybe, I make no promises either way) it still seems like exactly what I dreamed of doing.
If you would like to hear more about this, or if you would like to partner with me in this crazy endeavor, please message me, or comment on this, and we can get coffee, or tea, or lunch, or whatever you would like, and we can discuss all of this! I do have to raise funds to pay my own way, so if you are interested in partnering in finance (or in praying for me!!!) please let me know. I will also be selling some products in order to raise some funds. Check out the example pictures below and if you would be interested in purchasing any of these products please let me know and we can discuss details for those as well!
