Maybe Not
So I did some thinking and maybe it wouldn't be that perfect if we got to go to China. I read that volunteers work and live on university campuses. No matter what, adjusting to life in China will be something we've done before. Asia is so different from any region we've ever visited, my friend says that going to Asia changes you. Like living or studying in Europe for the first time changes you. I don't necesarrily want to have shopping malls, internet, toilets and electricity ALL the time. I'm not looking for an easy assignment. There is no such thing as an easy assignment. I guess. Or else, it wouldn't be called volunteering. I want to be challenged and I want to have to not worry about my high-maintanence hair and I want to have to travel big time to get to the nearest town. I want isolation. Or so I think. If I have William with me I can do anything. I may just be exaggerating here, but definately not romanticising about what things will be like come next year. I want to teach English, but really, if you live out in the middle of nowhere, will learning English really be at the top of your list as something to learn to get ahead in life? I don't know. I guess I'm just looking for something different and challenging. I guess living in Bulgaria will be very different and challenging because A. I don't speak Bulgarian and B. I have no idea what life is like in Eastern Europe. I have a friend named Viktor from Bulgaria whom I met while I was living in Spain and he's one of the coolest kids I've ever met. I doubt Bulgarian will be like him, he lives in Montreal now.
I'm kind of not wanting to go to Latin America anymore, just because our recruiter said that the language training you recieve during training is so intense that if you do things the way you're meant to, you come out at intermediate level. Spending hours a day for months just devoting myself to learning a language is something I've always wanted to do. There is a chance that if we did go to Latin America we'd have to learn some sort of indigenous language and that's just no good for my translation career or since I already speak Spanish I'd have missed out on an opportunity to learn a new language at a remarkable speed. When will I get another chance to learn a new language and then spend 2 years in-country practicing it?
I'll learn Romanian. I'll even learn Swahili. Anything.
I'll learn Romanian. I'll even learn Swahili. Anything.
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During my younger years I used to go on a lot of lad’s holidays! Usual places, Magaluf, Ibiza and so on, but during the last couple of years we starting going to the Greek Islands more often, Kos, Zante, Malia were our regular haunts. If you know anything about the Greek police it is that they don’t like speaking English and won’t think twice about hitting you with a baton if they see fit. So I decided to learn Greek, only the basics so if anything kicked off I could communicate with them and hopefully calm the situation! I did it using a book and speaking to some Greek lads from my uni but it could have been quicker using a learning language online software.
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