The plane tickets have been bought AND paid off... This is it. Even if I am not able to pay off the rest of my tuition, I have tickets taking me to Peru and bringing me back no sooner than August. This is a long time to be stranded, left to my own devises almost completely cut off, in a foreign country. All this and there is still little realization in my daily activities of what looms ahead. I have been able to light a fire under my ass to finish the class assignments by the due date, which is a good sign. However, I have not really made an assessment of what I should and am able to pack, boxed up what I need to get rid of and then box up what I would like to have waiting for me upon my return, been evaluating my time for goodbye visits, nor have I been able to find a suitable home for Waboose. This is the most difficult task at hand, but I will not harp my concerns to the innocent...
Goals:
Hopefully this experience will prepare me for an ESL classroom in the setting of an inner city public school.
Not be homesick and want to return before I have accomplished my South America related aspirations.
Leave feeling like a contribution has been made.
I must take a lot of pictures!
Remember to send postcards a month before important dates so they arrive in a timely fashion.
Live in a manner globally friendly that is monetarily conservative.
Do not cross any cultural taboos and piss people off in whatever location I end up in.
