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Reflections of Existential Crisis #1

It’s been a little over a week and I’m definitely more chill now than I was. Multiple phone calls back and forth to my parents, as well as a much-needed 5 hour dinner girls night with K brought some things into better perspective than I had before.

1. I don’t have to stay at WWU to get my post-bac, MIT, or whatever else. I don’t have to stay in B-ham at all.     This was a big one, because a lot of my frustration was coming from the fact that I felt obligated to stay here, since it felt like all the work I had done getting WA state residency and moving up to Bellingham would be for nothing if I just transferred to another school (or state. or both).     What matters is that I tried. I had no idea what I wanted to do, or where I wanted to go, or what it would take to get me anywhere. All I knew is that I didn’t want to be in WY anymore, and I wanted to try out WA because it seemed so magical and full of opportunities at the time. And it still does have lots of opportunities. There’s so much more here than WY has to offer for someone like me. But it’s been 3 years (wtf) already and I know I’m not supposed to be here anymore. My time in B-ham (and WA) is done for now. Who knows, in 10 years I may be lead back. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

2. I don’t have to get my teaching certification or Master’s degree right away.    This was also a big one, because I felt like unless I got done as quickly as possible and powered through into my career, I was a failure. I wasn’t going to be living up to my potential as a “gifted” student or a high-achieving person in general. I had (sometimes still have) these weird expectations of what I’m “supposed” to be doing and at what pace, because I somehow assume that the rest of my gifted peers are already “ahead” of me, whatever that means. But if I really think about it, all of my GATE alumni are each doing very different things at different paces. Some of them are already in grad school, some of them went to work in a different country after graduating with just a BA, some of them are still working on their BA, some of them originally moved away from WY and then moved back. But not one of them is what I would consider done, or settled, or a better or worse adult than I am.    I was talking to K and she was wondering why I had such crazy standards for myself when I’m not quite 23 yet, because she, from an outside (and older) perspective sees that I am so far ahead of my “normal” peers that I should be patting myself on the back every day. But I explained that I don’t really consider people my age to be my peers. It could be from having such a small peer group my whole life, or from spending the last 2 years hanging out with people at least 4 years older than myself, but I always forget how old I am.    Anyway, I don’t have to start grad school 3 weeks after I graduate with my BA. I really don’t. I can basically do whatever the f*** I want, and I’m starting to be okay with that.

3. A gap year doesn’t have to be only a year, as long as you are doing something productive or meaningful during your time “off.”    I want to go abroad again. It’s an itch I have to scratch. I don’t want to just wait around until I have an excuse to go back to Europe for a vacation or honeymoon or whatever. I need to go back and be there.    The CIEE teach abroad program looks really promising to that end. I want to do the one in Prague, which is paid (about $450/month), 10 months, and includes room/board/TESOL certification/support. I feel like this is the perfect way to do it. I wouldn’t really have to worry about money because I would be making money while being over there, and Czech Republic seems to be a relatively safe place to be. Although under Trump’s reign who knows; they might start forbidding all of our visas. This program would start next August (2018), and end in June (2019).    Between graduation (December) and the TA program, I really feel like I want to just move back home and work/help out/chill out

4. I need a home.    One of the things that has been plaguing me for the past...3 years, pretty much, is that I don’t feel like I have a home. I don’t ever invest any time into wherever I’m living b/c I know I’m going to be moving somewhere else. Instead of putting myself out there and making new friends I end up staying in my room facebook stalking my old ones.    I think the sense of urgency for getting my teaching certification over with and starting my career is that I want to try and build a home for myself with some sense of permanence. I want to be able to paint my walls, settle in, put shelves up, decorate how I want to with real nails instead of command strips. I want to have a garden, or at least a window-box or something and come home to a home at the end of the day. If you count each move as 1-moving in, and 1-moving out, I have moved 11+ times since I graduated high school 5 years ago. That’s an average of about 2 times per year, and usually at the beginning of the year when I’m trying to come back from Christmas break. I’m so tired of moving around.     I want to be somewhere, spread some roots out, breathe and focus. I want to cultivate new friendships, have a sense of community with people who I admire or feel a sense of kinship with. I don’t want politics or social justice shoved down my throat; I want dialogue and open hearts and minds. I want a group of simpler people--not simple people, but people who understand the things that are important and that all human beings are loved and worthy of respect. I don’t want people who perpetuate brash, knee-jerk political reactions from social media and picket signs. I want opportunities to participate in things that cultivate my hobbies and interests (what better place for arts and crafts than Minnesota??)    It feels like the fastest way to do that would be to get my career started as soon as possible.    Maybe I won’t do teach abroad at all. Maybe I will. Who knows. Maybe I need to go to my home-home for a while and be nursed back to life with rolling hills and dirt roads.

I’m tired.

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"Definitely recommend the program to anyone thinking about it"

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CIEE TEFL review, submitted by Brandi. This school is really easy to work with. 100% online. It consists of different course modules, lesson planning tasks, and the teaching practicum. I wasn’t required to travel anywhere for classes and I taught students online for the practical teaching component of the course. My tutor was very responsive and always available. I work a 45 hr week and was able…

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"I consider CIEE TEFL to be an excellent company for online teacher training"

“I consider CIEE TEFL to be an excellent company for online teacher training”

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The CIEE TEFL program was the only one offering the 150 course with the 20 hours of real-world teaching practice. The price was a little steep, but when I compared all the fees with the in-class ones it still came out as being significantly more affordable.

I taught my 20 hours to students…

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"This was a really good combined tefl course option"

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Is CIEE TEFL Legit? This was a really good combined tefl course option.

I wanted to take the tefl certification online, but I also wanted to take a teaching practice component. When I checked, I couldn’t see any companies offering this combination. Then I stumbled upon CIEE and saw they offer this package with their 150 hour…

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"you will love this alternative method to learning to Teach English as a Foreign Language abroad"

"you will love this alternative method to learning to Teach English as a Foreign Language abroad"

CIEE TEFL review, submitted by Gretchen.

What I loved about this course was the interactive element with other fellow trainees; creating a discussion pool where we swapped ideas and helped each other out with difficult areas of grammar awareness. I did feel that there could have been a lot more emphasis on lesson planing, rather than creating cultural projects for different teaching geographic…

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CIEE TEFL review, submitted by Claire.

CIEE TEFL 150 hour online TEFL course certification program review.

I had a mostly positive experience through taking the CIEE TEFL course. The actual course itself is written and presnted very well, it’s engaging and the feedback from the tutor was top-notch. My only complaint is that it was quite pricey. They do help with job hunting, but I haven’t…

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"I found the CIEE 150-Hour TEFL course (online) to be very good value for money"

“I found the CIEE 150-Hour TEFL course (online) to be very good value for money”

CIEE TEFL review, submitted by Christian.

I found the CIEE 150-Hour TEFL course (online) to be very good value for money and instrumental in enabling me to teach English to online learners. Communication with the school has been very good; both during the course and since completing it and earning my TEFL certificate. CIEE run an internal messaging board, where you can chat with their other…

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Record of Existential Crisis #1

So, on cue, I’ve had yet another existential crisis about my future as an educator. Currently the “plan” is to graduate with Honors in December and then immediately start in the Masters program to spend another 2 years working on my MIT and certification at Woodring.

However, I have this horrible feeling of dread that I’m not choosing the best program, like there might be a better one out there and I would be missing out. It’s like shopper’s nightmare, spending a whole bunch of money on something only to find out the next day that there was a better model the whole time and that you can’t return the thing you already purchased so you just have to live with the feelings of regret and try to be happy with what you have.

Not only do I feel this with grad school in general, but also with teaching. I’m sure all teachers (or anyone with a career for that matter) have this feeling of panic. Why do I want to do this? Is it just because it’s the least scary thing? Or is it one of the most scary things, now that DeVos is “in charge?” 

Or is the scary, unsafe part the reason why I must continue down this path? Is this what I’m being called to do? Now more than “ever before” we need teachers who are intelligent, kind, unbiased; who put students first and help them succeed even though the world says they are inferior because of something they have no control over? If all the teachers who, like me, have inordinate amounts of talent, skill, and work ethic, decided it was too difficult to continue being a teacher, all we would have left is the Betsy DeVoses of the world with our children.

But do I shirk this looming responsibility and escape to Europe to teach abroad? 

Or do I escape to Europe to teach abroad to then bring back better skills with different and diverse knowledge/methods of teaching and wait another year and a half to start the masters program, still at Woodring b/c apparently it’s the second-best ranked college in the region?

If I take a gap year (my preferred option at this point is to teach for 10 months in Prague via CIEE, where I can get an alumni discount on TESOL courses), I would have to wait until Fall 2019 to start at Woodring, and then I wouldn’t be ready to teach until 2021, when I’m almost 28...Not that this is that late of an age to start. K is almost 29 and is just now getting ready to start her HR career.

Just another example of how I feel so much older than I am, so I feel this huge rush to get things done so I can support myself. I guess on the other hand, K also has a life-partner already to basically pay for all her needs while she goes to school. I can’t keep working where I’m working and expect to be able to be as financially secure as I want to be so I don’t have financial stress while going to school. I guess there’s also grant/scholarship options, but those aren’t a given, so I can’t automatically factor them into my “plans.”

And it’s not like Prague starting Fall 2018 with CIEE is the only teaching-abroad-in-Europe option that I have. I also have no idea when I would be able to do the 150 hours of TESOL coursework with CIEE. 

And then there’s the whole other issue of not wanting to live in B-Ham anymore. I think it would be tolerable to live here if I could have a full time job in a career and be able to travel outside to take breaks from being in this town if I wanted. But then I’m just a spoiled brat who should be grateful to have a roof over her head close to campus with a balcony to plant flowers, that is also close to the ocean, and the mountains, and a foreign country (kind of foreign), and a big city. Maybe it’s because I know I don’t belong here and I’m itching to get out and figure out where I do belong. Again, I always forget that I’m “only” 23 and that most of my peers are fighting hangovers every day instead of planning out every day of their lives for the next 20 years to the minute.

I don’t know what to do. I spend so much time thinking about the future and trying to plan it out that I can’t focus on things that are happening today, or tomorrow, or a paper that’s due in 2 weeks, or whatever else I can’t focus on. I need to find some way of re-centering but I don’t know how, and any time I re-center, it doesn’t last very long before my brain rebels and I have to fight off either paralyzing anxiety or mind-numbing depressive tendencies.

I wish all problems could be solved in concrete ways, like breaking them into little bite-sized pieces that can be enacted step-by-step, instead of nebulous smoky swirls in a crystal ball that you can’t even see because it’s ten feet in front of you and your feet are glued to the floor by the bounds of time

I don’t like to play the millenial card, but the stakes seem so much higher than they were a generation ago. It’s not like I can just brush it off and start over if I spend thousands and thousands and thousands of dollars of debt on being certified to do a career. It’s not like I can just work extra hours over the summer and “have enough money to pay for next school year.” I can’t even imagine how hard life is for students who don’t have parents to “fall back on” if absolutely necessary. I don’t ask for hand-outs, but I have more of a luxury to do whatever career path I want and not have to worry too much about the financial burden. But I do anyway. God only knows why.

I just wish someone would just sit me down and literally say: “Do this at this time, and then when that’s over, take a year off and go abroad again, and then come back and do this thing and that thing and then move here and start teaching and then move somewhere else before this time or that time, and everything will be fine” because I can’t seem to navigate anything on my own. I hate all these choices because they feel like life or death.