China!

Last week, I was offered a job...in CHINA! My Chinese teacher asked me if I would like her to give my name to her friend in China, who is the director of a pretty large language school near Beijing, so I agreed and within a couple days this director had asked for my resume and offered me a job. I can hardly believe it happened that quickly. I am so used to applying for half a dozen summer jobs in the US, hearing back from none of them, and not getting definite answers even after calling in to inquire. It feels so strange that this is happening so fast, but I am excited about the possibility! I haven't accepted the job yet, but I am talking to my family about it and asking as many questions about it as I can think of. Two girls who live on my hall are going to teach in China with New Day, so they would be pretty near by. Who would have thought I'd have to move to China to hang out with college friends?

So, I am excited about graduating now for several reasons:

1. Being finished with final exams. Forever.

2. Living in New York this summer to get the ESL Certificate.

3. Going to China to teach English to 6-12 year-olds.

I can hardly believe how fast this is all happening. Hopefully by the end of this week, I will know for sure whether I will accept the job, and then start planning from there. I think it would be a really wonderful experience, and I am excited that I would be able to keep learning Chinese after college--the school provides three hours of Mandarin lessons per week for the foreign teachers there. I would be living in an apartment building with teachers from the UK, Australia, Ukraine, USA, and Japan. I have no idea what that would be like, but I am kind of beside myself with excitement thinking about it.

Usually I would be worried and frantically trying to plan how things will work out, but I'm not anxious about it at all. If God is taking me there, He's going to take me there, and I am just going to go one day at a time and trust that He knows what He's doing. It's nice not being in control, when I actually realize that I'm not.

Here is a little Chinglish, just for fun: