The Bronx, and beyond

While I'm in a blogging mood, maybe I should share more about what I'm doing this summer, besides reading and babysitting. Halfway through June, I'm moving up to the Bronx for a month to live. I'll be taking a course at a university in Manhattan that will certify me to teach English as a second language to adults. I'm so excited about it, but I'm starting to get a little nervous about it too. Mostly because I've never been to NYC, much less lived in a city before. I'm used to the South and smallish towns, so I am probably going to stick out like a sore thumb. Overall though, even if I'm nervous about it once in awhile, I think it will be a good time, and I'm really looking forward to meeting the ladies that I will be living with. I never expected this summer to look so exciting to me...I think that I use that word (exciting) all the time, which is probably driving everyone nuts, but I haven't been this excited in awhile. It's going to be a great summer.

I'm envisioning days spent babysitting, and then coming home and reading or working in the garden, or riding my bike. Just familiar, relaxing things. I'll do that for two months. And then the month inbetween will be kind of the opposite, fast-paced and new. And then at the end of summer, I'm hoping to go with my current roommate Heidi to a good friend's wedding, and then a few days after that I'll take the longest flight of my life to China. So it looks like I only have two solid months of familiarity and home left before I expatriate myself and see what that's like.

I wonder what home will be after that.