Back to School
I’m going back to school. Well, kinda. I don’t have to don a backpack or make a p.b. and j and put it in a Transformers metal lunchbox. I’ll attend class from the comfort of my couch with a cup of coffee in my hand. I’m beginning University of Missouri’s Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages program. As part of that, our teachers asked us to write an introduction about where we grew up and our dreams. It was fun to write. I hope it’s fun to read:
I was born in a town of 900 people where everybody basically looked alike, thought alike, and acted alike. Thirty years later I moved across the ocean to a town of 1.5 million people where everybody basically looked alike, thought alike, and acted alike. I liked the second place better than the first, so I want to go back there. In the middle I dreamed of being everything from a fireman to a professional wrestler to a doctor to a preacher. I tried some of those things, and I have the scars to prove it. Today, I’m still balancing the urge to be responsible and figure out what I want to be when I grow up and the desire to never grow up.
Here’s to milk mustaches!
Congrats! Online degrees are the best! I’m 6 months into an 18 month plan for my Master’s in Curriculum and Instruction with a Focus in Literacy through UTA. Working on an ESL class myself at the moment.
All those times when you’re up at 2am, you’ll have something to do besides play with Jack!
Congrats man Im pumped for you to be going back to school. On the downside, since your going through Mizzou, i have to not like you a little bit lol. Proud of you buddy!
-brett