Busy Buzzy Bee

Did you know the title of this post contains alliteration? Not to mention onomatopoeia? Wellllllll, if you had been paying attention in my ELD IV class, you would know this!

Anyhoo, the reason I haven’t written anything for a month is that I honestly didn’t have anything to write about till just a couple weeks ago. Now I have entirely too much on my mind, and you, dear friends, get to be the lucky audience to my unloading session!  :)  On that note, I want to go ahead and apologize profusely for the pathetic quality of writing in this post — it’s nothing more than a glorified mass email.

First of all — Brittany and I are moving!  We found a fabulous little duplex a couple weeks ago — just our size, in the perfect area, and at the perfect price for us.  We seriously love it and are so excited!  Moving day is May 1st, and I’m not joking about needing a Conestoga wagon and some big burly men.  I have  a LOT of stuff.  We do have movers coming, but we’ll probably need all the help we can get from friends too!  Anyone?

I also just refinanced my car through my bank for an amazingly low interest rate.  It’s a complicated process, if you ask me, but TOTALLY worth it.

Switching gears to the even more fun stuff now…

A couple weeks ago I went to visit Josh, friend of mine who teaches ELL at another high school in Nashville, just to see what life was like at a school that is NOT on the No Child Left Behind “restructuring” list. Turns out life there seems pretty good. Definitely more chill. I loved it… and it got me thinking. I might need a change.

Then, the Spanish teacher at this school informed me of another teaching option for next year — in Spain!  What happened was, Juan (who is from Extremadura, España) invited me to check out some of his Spanish classes because if I go teach at his school, I would possibly be teaching Spanish as well as ELL. I enjoyed his classes as much as I enjoyed Josh’s, but over lunch Juan surprised me with another awesome opportunity: the brand new North American Visiting Teachers in Spain program, starting in September.  Long story short… basically, I meet all the qualifications, so I spent a week and a half of scrambling to throw together an application packet to mail to the Spanish Embassy in D.C. by the deadline on April 11th.  P.S. Overnighting a package through the post office does NOT get your package there overnight.  Try two and a half DAYS!  Anyways, my packet did arrive by the deadline, and for the last week or so now I’ve been stressing over the fact my name is still nowhere to be found on the website’s list of applicants, of which there are evidently 3,857!?!

So I had basically given up hope until today, when I received not only an email, but also a phone call (which I missed while I was teaching) from a lady at the Spanish embassy in Atlanta!  She wants to interview me over the phone next week… and I’m so nervous!  I mean… I don’t know what to pray for.  Am I completely crazy?!?!?  

On TOP of all this, a great new EL consultant position in our school district opened up last week, and I’m really interested in it, too!  I’ve already applied, sent in my resúmé, and might have an interview in a couple of weeks.

All this to say, I BEG FOR YOUR PRAYERS!  I have absolutely no clue where all this will lead, but I feel like something is brewing and there may even be some Holy Spirit action coming into play.  If you just happen to have any visions or signs from God as to what’s going to happen and what I should do, definitely shoot me a line and let me know, ok?

Whew!  I’m tired just thinking about it all, and it’s way past my teacher bed time now.  Gracias por leer, mis amigos, y buenas noches a todos!

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