Have you ever wanted to run away? Not just want, but actually look up plane tickets and figure out how you could go?
I don’t want to run, I just want to go. I was babysitting today and my kids were napping and I put a ticket to France into my online shopping cart. I put my debit card information in and then I wondered -- France? Or Spain? Which country am I going to? Where do I most want to be? And in my hesitation I doubted myself. I want to go so so much. Right now I have a 14-year-old boy upstairs who is staying with us from Spain for this month. I am so jealous of him and of his adventure that he was able to do. I am going to go, I am registered for a class to teach English as a second language in which I will be able to go abroad and teach. The problem is that I am impatient. I want to go now, I would prefer an empty bank account and having adventures to a bank account with money, but no experience recently outside of Wisconsin.
I want to adventure to a whole new country. Adventure through new cultures and find a new adventure. I want to go. See a whole new world and realize find the beauty that was put here in this world.
Thailand on less than $20 a day? Hiking in Italy? Even American campgrounds. Mountains where the view makes your heart drop and water where the bottom is unthinkably deep and still you can see it. Hostels and plants and there are all of there things that I want to do that I never imagined that I would want. My pinterest is unbelievably full of traveling information, destinations, how to pack, places that are underrated and that picking
How on earth was I going to be able to see this earth? Afford to see this world? How was I going to afford school, travel, life? And one day my mom came home from work and told me that her co-worker was going to China to teach English as a second language. Alicia is amazing, she took a year off of college to go to France and teach English. She was paid to go to a whole new country and travel and meeting with her is when I realized that that was exactly what I wanted to do. I could go anywhere without worrying about funding myself.
I enrolled in the Teaching English as a Second Language program. I am still enrolled in school and next summer I will still be able to work while I am in school for the TESL program. I apply for jobs that fall and will leave the year after. What should be my senior year I will be in a whole new country teaching students and going to surrounding countries. After graduation I will be teaching again and again in new countries and I'm no longer worried about funding myself or if I will ever make it abroad. It will happen. Not today, but there is a plan in place and I couldn't be more excited.
