Change Of Plans

Hey everyone,

So I know you've been perhaps, maybe (highly unlikely) waiting for me to update this blog with some sort of final solution. The fact of the matter is this: I'm not going. I'm taking a year off, and I don't know what I'm going to do still, but I'm taking a year off... at least.

I know it may seem like a sudden and unreasonable choice, but it's necessary, for me. I'm still trying to figure out who I am and what I want to do with my life. Of course, that does not mean I am giving up completely. I am taking a year off, after all, but I have plans, potentials for that year. I am looking into two opportunities, outside of just staying at home and working and getting my license and all that.

Option A: Teach For America

Teach for America would give me an opportunity to go somewhere, anywhere, and just... teach. I would be a teacher, or a teacher's assistant, for some underprivileged children in America. It's meaningful, would give me experience, and relatively interests me. I don't mind the idea of it at all, and it might let me get to a place where I have to grow up.

Option B: AmeriCorps

AmeriCorps, much like Teach for America, gives me an opportunity to give back to this blasted country. Now, I know that America has had its ups and downs and may be pretty much hated by the entire world, but the people are okay. It's really the people who we let run our country that suck. And all the old people who refuse to die so us young people can let our radical, loving, world-changing views take over. Seriously, we might not have all of these problems if we let, for like 4 years, the president be some 25-yr/old, fresh out of college or something, become a dictator and just whip the country into shape. No strings attached. Nothing but a more controlled 20-yr/old vice-dictator to make sure they don't make any too extreme decisions that would ruin the country completely.

Anyway, AmeriCorps looks like a fun idea too, except it pays probably less than TFA does, even though they both get benefits. And with AmeriCorps you have to be drug free. Not that I do drugs, but I've grown to liking this liquor stuff. I'm just a martini girl *shrugs*.

Anyway, that's what's going on. I will explain more later as I continue to think things through. However, as of now, those are my plans. We will see what happens.

~Kathia