Today was the big day we have all been waiting for this
week. At the end of the day, our site placements were finally announced!
I get to stay in the southern region, and I am absolutely elated! I will be teaching at
a mission school, which here is code for chique! Usually class sizes are 30-40
instead of 80-100 and often times they have desks and chalkboards! …Hey, this
is Africa, it’s the simple things! Apparently my house is going to super chique
as well—it has running water and electricity and easy access to transportation,
plus we’ll be living on the same grounds as the nuns—that certainly adds a
sense of security for me.
“Why the ‘karma’ Jessie? This sounds great.”
I mean, it is an excellent set up and I’m super excited for
the upcoming experience. However, I will be teaching CHEMISTRY. Whoop, there it
is. The karma. Anyone who has spent an ounce of time with me since 10th
grade, especially in college, is acutely aware that I avoided anything
involving chemistry, even ignoring advice from my advisor to take a least a
couple courses in the subject. Então here I am, of course about to teach it IN
PORTUGUESE. Corpo da Paz is for the flexible however, and I had said that I
would teach Chemistry because I would rather stick to the sciences than be
forced to venture into *gasp* MATH…that
would just be horrible.
So in about 3 weeks,
I will meet my new roommate and move into a new house, not to far from where I
am now, and start the next chapter of my adventure teaching
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