Graduation is in four days.
I have been alive for 7,953 days. And now there are only 4 until I graduate college. Crazy shit.
To be honest, I went through a rather chaotic, anxiety ridden period this semester when life after college seemed this big black hole that nothing would ever satisfy. I thought I'd be lost for sure. But alas, the future seems brighter than ever.
On December 31st, 2010 I submitted an application through the French Embassy in Washington D.C. to become an English Teaching Assistant in France. The position assigns those selected to different regions in France where they'll work with a specific age group at one or more schools helping them learn English. You get about 780 Euros a month to cover everything. It's truly the most independent endeavor I've ever aspired to. You mostly have to do everything yourself: find housing, make sure paperwork gets done, find transportation, etc, etc. But the advantages are enormous I would think. You learn to embrace this independence and get to do it in such a beautiful country as France. So there I was in December hoping this would come through for me, since I really had no other plans at all for after graduation. Fast forward to April 5th, 2011. I had spent the majority of the afternoon huddled in the basement of one of the buildings on campus because of a tornado warning. I came home to my computer and an inbox full of tornado-related emails. But there, nestled in the middle of them all, was one with the subject line "Acceptance to the 2011-2012 TAPIF Program - Académie de Nancy-Metz". Of course I immediately turned into a little girl, jumping, screaming, shrieking, yippe-ing. I got it!
The past month I've had to put thinking about France on the back-burner. School assignments had to take over for a bit. But I've spent the past weekend looking up all sorts of stuff about what's to expect. The excitement is brimming over now! Anyway, I should be working on a paper for class right now but then I realized it is the very last assignment of my undergraduate career, which, surprisingly, makes me a bit sad. So I'm gonna put it off a bit longer, let it linger and then say sayonara Mr. Homework Procrastination!
