A Chronicle of my Changing Times.

Pit Stop along the long Road...

Yesterday I mailed in my acceptance 'letter of intent' with a check to The George Washington University.  I'll be heading there in sometime in late August.  I'm excited about going there, about moving into this stage of my life (and study) that I've considered so long and worked so hard.  In many ways it doesn't seem real yet as I sit here in Haskovo this cool morning getting ready to go to work.  DC seems like such a far off place - almost foreign, strangely enough.

My enthusiasm is also tempered a bit since I feel this enormous weight to get things set up between now and then.  I'm still looking to go to Spain for a time to learn Spanish after my end date of June 22nd.  I'm not sure how much time I'll have since I've begun my active job search in DC.  I've received no grants or scholarships to study so I have to at least come up with money to live on while I'm in there - assuming I take out Student Loans.  So the amount of time I spend in Spain is partly dependent on if I find a job.  I have a great lead on one in particular working with Peace Corps office in DC (only six blocks away from my building at GW!) and I'm trying to work through a couple of avenues to get more info and advice regarding it. 

There's also the whole issue of moving from BG to Spain to NC to DC.  Ok, in all fairness, the two in the middle will only be stop overs, but I still have to arrange the movement of my life from on country to another while being busy elsewhere.  It's a bit of a tall order.  There's things to do with PC to wrap up my time here (there's a printed checklist a full page long) plus finish teaching and all my projects.  And of course, me being a social animal, I have friends to see and people to say goodbye to all over Haskovo and Bulgaria in general.  And for good measure, there are other entanglements to consider.

So it's weird for my friends and family.  More than one person has commented that they thought I would be happier about everything going on in my life right now, especially with the decision about Geo. Washington.  But to be honest, I'm so overwhelmed with the work I have to do between now and August, I'm just trying to concentrate on that so I can get all that I feel I need to done.  Enjoyment, satisfaction, and general exuberant feelings are here and they show themselves at times, I'm just focused on what comes next. 

Posted by: mjmarble at April 26, 2007 07:07 | link | comments
work, plan, future, grad school

Comments: