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two awesome things
Sep. 17th, 2010 01:21 amOne! I had orientation this morning because on Monday the English language study centre opens for business, and I'm going to be one of the volunteers! :D I was kinda nervous about all this last night but now I am just STOKED! The woman in charge of the centre is super nice, and it's a really big and well-stocked room (ignoring the fact that all the audio material is still on cassette tapes!) decorated with tourism posters and anti-racism posters and "Let's speak English!" posters and lists of words that can be combined to make other words and also nametags with like four different languages on them!! In the past, whenever anyone has suggested I teach English overseas, my response has been "I love travelling, but I don't really want to teach English," but now that I am on the verge of teaching English, I feel like Monday is my Christmas!! STOKED!!!
(Okay, so I won't actually be teaching at this point - the volunteers are more there to help with projects or to be a conversation partner or to be a human tape recorder. But close enough!)
It's kind of bad how everyone is reacting to this though, haha.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
the_wykydtron said, "It's been a while since you've had something awesome in your life!," which is a nice way of putting it, at least compared to my dad's "It's good you're doing something." Wait, you mean you guys don't approve of my lazing about the house all day?!?
Two! I cross-posted my ~meeting Michelle~ entry to my Lift One page (Lift One is basically CI's version of Facebook, it's kind of adorable) with a new intro that basically went, "Sorry for all the emoticons, I wrote this for my friends who I should hope are used to my ridiculousness by now." I've already gotten a ton of awesome comments to this entry, but my favourite one is from someone who wanted to tell me that there's no need to apologize for my writing style, as it's "engaging." Awwww! :D
Also I failed to mention but my sponsored child Maria now has a fundraiser up at Aura's House! And both her page and John's page have ~bonus photos~ that I've never posted on LJ! So you should go check them out like right now! :D
(Okay, so I won't actually be teaching at this point - the volunteers are more there to help with projects or to be a conversation partner or to be a human tape recorder. But close enough!)
It's kind of bad how everyone is reacting to this though, haha.
the_wykydtron said, "It's been a while since you've had something awesome in your life!," which is a nice way of putting it, at least compared to my dad's "It's good you're doing something." Wait, you mean you guys don't approve of my lazing about the house all day?!?Two! I cross-posted my ~meeting Michelle~ entry to my Lift One page (Lift One is basically CI's version of Facebook, it's kind of adorable) with a new intro that basically went, "Sorry for all the emoticons, I wrote this for my friends who I should hope are used to my ridiculousness by now." I've already gotten a ton of awesome comments to this entry, but my favourite one is from someone who wanted to tell me that there's no need to apologize for my writing style, as it's "engaging." Awwww! :D
Also I failed to mention but my sponsored child Maria now has a fundraiser up at Aura's House! And both her page and John's page have ~bonus photos~ that I've never posted on LJ! So you should go check them out like right now! :D