Aaaaaaalright. So I got a fever last night. The only prescription is more cowbell.
Bad joke.
But seriously. Yesterday at work I started feel like the plague. I left at about 4PM and came home to sleep before a date I had been looking forward to all day. I woke up a half-hour before we were supposed to leave and felt even worse. I tried to shake it off but finally went next door to have a neighbor feel my forehead. "Yeah, you've got a fever. You don't look so good either." So ten minutes before my date is supposed to pick me up, I call him and tell him I am carrying the black death and am consequently going to stay in for the night.
And ooooooooooh man. Did I ever feel awful. I had a hot fever and chills like nobody's business along with a pounding headache that spread all the way down my neck. It was AWFUL. I could not fall asleep. Finally around 11PM or so a friend came over. He made me some soup. I felt a lot better and went to bed around 2AM. I feel better today but still am stiff all over.
While lying in bed doing absolutely nothing, I pondered on my life as it right now. I decided that it was a huge mistake to take this job in Provo because why would anyone want to be sick by themselves when they could be sick with their mom taking care of them? I decided that as soon as my next housing contract is up in April 2010, I am moving back to my parents' house. I mean I love my roommates and everything, but the support system does not compare.
After I decided where I was going next year, I started thinking about the year after that. And this is why I love emerging adulthood. It's so contradictory. All the time. Because even though there is nothing I want more right now that to be at home with my mom and dad (and of course chickens and Waffle) there is also nothing I want more than to get out and see the world! So I am going to do English teaching in China.
I had originally thought I would sign up with ILP and go to Taiwan. However, after hearing bad things about ILP and that China is way more exciting than Taiwan, I decided to look into some other organizations that could send me elsewhere. This name popped up in the blogosphere: Aclipse.
Aclipse is supposedly a larger company that has it all together and knows what they are doing, whereas ILP has a reputation of being quite disorganized and not quite as concerned with the safety of their teachers as they should be.
What are your thoughts? China vs Taiwan? Good English teaching programs you've heard of? Bad ones?
4 comments:
sorry i don't know anything about either program. how fun. but i'm not excited for you to leave - whether you go home or to asia. :(
i hope you're feeling better. we should have brought you something . . . sorry.
As much as I'd love to have you back home... I think you'd be bored and a little nuts after three weeks. :) And yes, the China thing sounds exciting! You'd be a fabulous teacher. Maybe you should contact people who have done this previously.
One, sorry you were sick. That sounds awful. Two, thanks for the birthday call. I love you too! Three, I don't think you should move back with Mom and Dad either. They will have finally gotten rid of everyone and I think you and Mom will be at each other's throats before too long. Four, that would be a really cool experience. But that ILP doesn't sound good. I agree with Mom, talk to someone who has done it previously.
I have heard good things about both, but I have known more friends that loved Taiwan. About half of my friends from college did it and they loved it for a year...you should also look into Teach for America.
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