getting TESOL certified

Last weekend was my first 2 classes (of 6) of my TESOL course and to say the least, I LOVE IT. First of all my professor is awesome. He is a big man who is full of personality! His love for teaching English pretty much OOOZES out of him as he teaches us. He is getting me very excited and anxious to begin :)! The material in the class interests me which is a first for school and I honestly am beginning to believe this is the job that I will wake up every morning excited to go to. Although I am on 1/3 of the way through my class, I feel that with this and my experience coaching, I will be more than prepared to tackle my own class room! Counting down the days:)

#CHEERS2mylastmonth

The beginning...

“I have learned that if you must leave a place that you have lived in and loved and where all your yesteryears are buried deep, leave it any way except a slow way, leave it the fastest way you can. Never turn back and never believe that an hour you remember is a better hour because it is dead. Passed years seem safe ones, vanquished ones, while the future lives in a cloud, formidable from a distance.”- Beryl Markham, West with the Night

And this is exactly what I am doing. In less than a month I am leaving everything that I know and love and am moving to Gimpo, South Korea to teach English. As of now I am not sure how I feel. Living and teaching abroad has been something that I have wanted to do for many years but now that it is finally actually here I have become a ball of mixed emotions and those that know me know that I can be emotional. I am excited of course for the journey that I am about to pursue but at the same time I am terrified. Terrified to be alone, terrified to leave my home, terrified of what is to come. But then I am happy, how many people take this risk and uproot and move abroad, start over, immerse themselves in a new life?  But my happiness is accompanied with sadness, specifically sad because I am going to be with out those that I love the most, I will miss family gatherings, "beff-friend" bonding, my nephew learning to drive, my niece starting middle school, my mom taking down the corrupt employees of the  SUHSD, talking basketball with my dad, spending time with my sisters.. the list goes on and on... But I am going to do this, despite my fear and sadness I know that ultimately this is what I want most. 

#Cheers2NewBeginnings.