It feels as though I am on the right path. I don't have this feeling often so I have to savour it and hope that it lasts.
My experience in the Dominican has been amazing thus far. It has made me consider what I want to do with my life and what options are opened to me. I think I want to live in a country similar to this one for a year or three.
I will be going back to Montreal April 17 and I already have some work lined up at Kells Academy. In fact there may be a chance that I will be hired there to teach full time starting next August. I think I would take that opportunity. I do want to teach elementary but realistically it does not seem as though I will find a full-time job right away at the elementary level, especially in English. I could probably take the year to experience and experiment with teaching high school and also to pay back my student loan. Pay back as much of it as I can that is.
Then perhaps the next year I could go to the Dominican or to Mexico or to some place similar and Spanish speaking. Carlos would come with me and I think Sarah would be down as well. I would learn Spanish definitely. I am trying to now but it's still a little intimidating for me. And I could live in the country for a few years and then come back to Canada. I think I would take my kids back to Canada once they were in elementary. Not sure, I have some thinking to do. But it's just like this whole new world opened up to me.
I'm incredibly thankful that I got to do my stage here in the Dominican and I am getting an education just as much in the school as out of it.
My experience in the Dominican has been amazing thus far. It has made me consider what I want to do with my life and what options are opened to me. I think I want to live in a country similar to this one for a year or three.
I will be going back to Montreal April 17 and I already have some work lined up at Kells Academy. In fact there may be a chance that I will be hired there to teach full time starting next August. I think I would take that opportunity. I do want to teach elementary but realistically it does not seem as though I will find a full-time job right away at the elementary level, especially in English. I could probably take the year to experience and experiment with teaching high school and also to pay back my student loan. Pay back as much of it as I can that is.
Then perhaps the next year I could go to the Dominican or to Mexico or to some place similar and Spanish speaking. Carlos would come with me and I think Sarah would be down as well. I would learn Spanish definitely. I am trying to now but it's still a little intimidating for me. And I could live in the country for a few years and then come back to Canada. I think I would take my kids back to Canada once they were in elementary. Not sure, I have some thinking to do. But it's just like this whole new world opened up to me.
I'm incredibly thankful that I got to do my stage here in the Dominican and I am getting an education just as much in the school as out of it.
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