Random Updates and Things of that Nature

This is going to be an all inclusive update since I do not have that much PC news to tell but I feel like I should not abandon my blog =)

My last post referred to my patience in waiting to hear from placement. (And some of my friends just didn't want to hear about Peace Corps anymore). But for valid reasons-they want me to enjoy the time I have left here. Anyways right after that post....a lot of people started posting about the budget cuts, and invitations being delayed or cancelled....

So while I am still being patient, I wanted to make sure that I had a back up plan. But as much as I wanted to apply for education positions or research opportunities, my heart really wasn't in it. This is truly the season in my life where I feel most prepared and ready to serve in the Peace Corps. If I couldn't serve in the Peace Corps right now, I would love to continue teaching and coordinating the college access program I brought to my school, its probably the only thing that will do. But returning to my current job would be an issue because I had already informed my school that I would not be returning. I implemented a successful college access program and I wanted to ensure that it would remain successful even in my absence (but so much for following directions and actually waiting until I had an invitation to make life changing decisions).

Anyways, I'm thankful because my principal asked me to keep her updated on the PC process in case something goes wrong with it and the chancellor of my school district emailed me personally to ask me to continue serving as a teacher. Needless to say, I'm humbled and honored because my students are wonderful and they have made me so proud over the past 2 years.

So I'm sure everyone was waiting for the little bit of this post that was related to PC, anyways, my college access program had an awards ceremony and I won Educator of the Year for my region. I had informed PC CYD office that I would inform them if I won so I sent an email in this morning. I got an email back like ten minutes later congratulating me on my accomplishment, and informing me that it would be added to my file and they would contact me as soon as they had "more potential programmatic information".

So while I'm thankful that they are still considering me for my potential departure of August 2011 (I think), potential programmatic information scares me. It is vague, but also makes it very clear that my potential nomination is on the chopping block. Even so, I'll continue to wait and be patient. Besides, I need to make sure that all of my seniors have chosen a place to go to school, I need to finish studying for my final exam and prep for my meeting with my advisor, and I need to actually follow my friends' advice and spend a lot of time with them =)