Its been a long time so here are some quick and important updates:
1. Wednesday I had an interview with the recruiter out at the Red Cloud Indian School in Pine Ridge, South Dakota. It went amazingly well and took over an hour. That's a great sign :) We talked about living on the rez, why I chose the school, the culture shock, salary/stipend/Americorp program, living with seven other housemates and lots of other fun random info.
2. During the interview I found out that I am going against two other people for the kindergarten position at the school. If I don't get an offer for that job they are willing to offer me a job coteaching second grade and being the second in command for the Afterschool care program for grades K-8. The beauty about the kindergarten position is that I could also coach the soccer team there. But, I would love to get my feet wet for a year coteaching and use my other talents with the Afterschool care program. Since this is a volunteer program, the stipend is the same for both positions. Lucky me :) Also, my interviewer Luke, is actually in training to become a Jesuit priest (pretty cool, right?) and went to college at St. Joe in southern Indiana. His freshman year roommate was from Crown Point, just down the road from here. It's really weird how God puts people in our life and it all connects.
3. According to Luke I am accepted into the Red Cloud volunteer program pending that my interview with the principal next week goes well.
4. Last week, I talked to my boss at the Parks Department and lined up a couple jobs for the summer like T-ball umpiring and possibly working the front desk at one of the golf courses in Valpo.
5. And this is where my life exploded even more.....I received an email from Camp Tecumseh offering me a position again this summer. My mind was blown. Last I knew, I wasn't going back because of certain things that happened last year and my boss said that they didn't have any positions available. Now, they want me to come back.
6. I'm at such a crossroads in my life right now. The South Dakota position starts July 31 and Camp goes from the first week of June until the second week of August. Even if I worked at Camp, during the interview process in December I had no idea the SD stuff would work out. Now here come the questions: do I work it out so I can be at camp again for another summer or do I stay here and work for the Parks Department? Do I apply for public school teaching gigs and go through the interviews while at camp over the summer?
7. If my life works out the way I want it to it would go like this:
May-substitute teach every weekday
June-camp
July-camp
August 2011 to June 2013- Teach out on the Rez in South Dakota
*This "plan" means I have to be at camp on a Saturday and then fly to SD the next day and start my training for the teacher position. I'm not sure about that whole transition from living at home with parents, to living at camp, and then moving to a whole different state all within such a short amount of time. I did this kind of thing last summer when I came home from England and then moved to camp not too soon after. It was wonderful and rough at the same time.
My parent's edition goes like this though:
May-substitute
June through August-work for the Parks Department
August and for the next ten years-teach in a public school somewhere in either Indiana or Illinois
Last week I had no idea what the heck I was going to do with my life besides graduating and hopefully teach somewhere. Now, everything is all over the place! The timing doesn't match up and that's what freaks me out the most. I've never had to think about a summer job and a real, legit, grown up, paying my bills kind of job come fall. Throw in money for plane tickets, car payments, and loans then you have my life. It is scary. I've never had all of these opportunities thrown at me at the same time.
It's like God got me through all of those rough times last semester and said "Hey, look what you can do!" His plans for me will always be greater than my own and this just goes to show what giving it over to God really means.
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