Alright, so it’s been a while…frankly there hasn’t been a whole lot spectacular to talk about…you know, the usual: a day trip to Switzerland here, a night out on the town in Germany there…damn, I love this place.
Well, the time is drawing nearer…yep…eventually I’m gonna have to come home (sort of…). I had considered changing my flight date, but I think I’ll leave it to avoid the costs and frustrations. So, I’ll be home June 17th…for the summer. Then I’ll be coming back home (here) to teach English in the business school at the university!!!! It’s weird having two homes, but that’s definitely what it feels like. The price you pay for seeing and trying new things is finding that you love many things that interfere with each other. I’m definitely in that world: there are so many things that I love in Canada, and so many things that I love here, I’m not sure how I’ll ever find the balance.
Anyway, seeing as how this job has little or nothing to do with HR, I thought I’d explain how this is probably the best opportunity I could have right now…since I started TAing, I discovered I really really loved teaching, but between the fact that I am not qualified for teacher’s college (because of the way I picked my courses), and the fact that I still Iike HR, I wasn’t sure that going into teaching was my best choice…plus, I want to be able to use at least some of what I spent four years learning. So I’ve thought about corporate training (but then went and turned down a job doing just that in favour of coming to France). In any case, the moral of the story is that for a year, I will be able to teach a subject I’ve been learning my whole life (although yes, Lesli, I know it still needs some work) in a context that suits my education, and I get to spend more time deciding if teaching is for me…and I get to keep working on my French (it’s come a long way, but I’ve still got lots of work ahead of me)…and I get to live 20 minutes from Germany and from Switzerland for another year. Really, I couldn’t be happier, as hard as it will be to leave behind everything and everyone I love in Canada, yet again, and this time for longer. In fact, knowing that I’m coming back just makes me want to get back sooner so I can be sure to do all the things I want to do while in Canada (see everyone, take pictures, get to the cottage more than I have the past several years, get back to Montreal, go to a Jays game…all that sort of thing…which reminds me, I want to have lots of great pictures from Canada day from my French buddies!…I’ve got start thinking about what I want to do…anybody want to do Ottawa for Canada Day?)…oh yeah, and get a job that will allow me to do all that, and still make enough money to get back across the ocean!
Anyhow, I hope you guys are all doing well, and that the weather is working it’s way up…It’s been beautiful (even a little on the hot side) here, and I don’t want to come back to stereotypical Canadian weather! I need to show the boys here that weather in Canada can be beautiful too!
Well, I love you guys lots, and miss you all tons. Can’t wait to see hear from you in the next little while, and see you all over the summer!
