Well, Christian and I are waiting on responses from two or three schools, but we've each been rejected from enough programs that we will definitely not be able to attend school in the same place next year. And, aside from that, I pretty definitely need to spend a year away from school and use my brain in a different way for a while, so on the slim chance that one of the schools I have yet to hear from accepts me, I'm going to defer.
Which means, dear ones, that I am figuring out where I WILL be next year, and it almost certainly will not be in the US. I have found a couple of things I would like to apply for here in China, and the Hopkins-Nanjing Center has a resume book which is circulated around many firms in China. If nothing comes of these, I am also applying to both of the programs which place native English speakers teaching English in Korean public schools- which will hopefully land me on Jeju Island with Christian. I feel like I should stay in China to keep using my Chinese and build experience here, so I am going to give jobs here (especially two of them that I know of) my full application effort. But I also feel that I need to do something, sometime soon, where I don't feel like I'm running at full speed all the time, and that it would make my life about 100% better to be in the same country, even, as Christian.
So, we'll see what happens! I am hoping I will be back in Iowa for a few weeks this summer. If I know I will be gainfully employed next year, I definitely have funds for it.
The plan is still almost definitely grad school in Geography whenever I actually get in to a program. I have questions I want to ask in a research setting, and I am pretty sure I want to teach eventually. I have dreams of leading study abroad trips.
Wish me luck!
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Good luck! :P And I love you. And I can't believe I never read your blog. ...But this was a bad time to start because now I want to read all of your entries and I have two papers and a midterm to finish/write by tomorrow...
ReplyDeleteBut reading even a little bit reminds me of how much you have been through since I last saw you and how much I don't know about you. I mean, I am pretty sure I still know the essence of Kara because of the extremely long amount of time I have known you and the things we have experienced while living near one another, but I can't wait to reconnect with this newer Kara and find out who she is and what she has learned. Basically, I love you and can't wait to see you.