Why I"m going..

Almost everyone I've talked to has asked me why I'm going. Well, there's a lot of reasons. The most basic reasons are that 1) my job will be ending soon, or I wont be making as much so it'll be pointless for me to stay during the winter months 2)it's going to look great on a resume for any teaching jobs, and I'd rather have a teaching job than one working at a golf course (I love my job at the golf course, but the reason I went to school was to teach). Then there are more complicated reasons for why I'm going: I feel like I need to experience the world more. I've never been out of the country and feel like I'm missing out on an adventure. Everyone that has gone somewhere has said it's amazing..so why has it taken me till I'm 23 to go anywhere?! I want worldly experience and knowledge. I want to do something great and why not do it now when I'm young? Plus, I just need to get out for a little while, a new change of pace.

I'm going for three months to teach English in one of the small villages in the Sacred Valley, which is where Cusco and Macchu Pichu are. I'll be in a little town called Urubamba and Ollantaytampo (sp?). I've gotten the question of why I'm going there to teach English and not teacher English here...well good question. It's just the program I picked. I could have gone to study Spanish, but I felt I'd get more teaching experience/practice teaching English down there in hopes that it'll transfer to any experience here. Plus, I haven't gotten any call backs from any of the places I applied to for a teaching job (besides the ones in Lamar and New Mexico). Anyone who understands the education world right now knows that it's hard to land a job fresh out of college...there are those lucky ones. So this experience will provide me with skills to get that teaching job. Maybe I'll like teaching English instead of social studies.

This is only a test!

Ok, so my first post is to see if I did this right! lol This is my first blog so I'm not sure how this thing works. I should have had my sister show me how :) So, let me know if you could get on this thing ok, if the pictures showed up and if you were able to comment. Let me know anything that is weird or wrong. Thanks! I'll be updating everyone about Peru asap..I'll put pictures up and everything when I learn how to! :)