No Locus Standi

After not having heard from our recruiter for almost 4 weeks, we finally received an email from on Saturday. It's intersting to see what sort of changes have happend since we were interviewed:

1. I'm no longer intrested in qualifying for Health Extension
2. I'm no longer vegetarian-- but vegan
3. I really want to teach English in the Peace Corps
4. Will has a very good chance at Environmental Education
5. We are confident about leaving next June

Our recruiter however, suggested that we wait until November for the July, August and September programs become available. I told him, we'd be ok leaving June. He also suggested that I forget Health Extension and focus on TEFL, because that is what I have most experience with. TEFL and Enviromental Education make a good match apparently, so we'll see we go with that. Will and I still think that we can be ready to go next June, despite the fact that we graduate next June. Some people may think we're crazy--our recruiter is one of them.

We've made this decision in a completely logical manner: Firstly, we don't have to find anyone to let our apartment to here, because we're in contract and being that this is an apartment complex for students, there is never a shortage of people wanting to rent. Secondly, my family is coming to visit me here in Australia so that is one less expense for me, flying to Colombia is just so expensive and Will's family all live in the same town. I will however have to make the trip to Miami to visit my dear mamá. Next, most of Will's good friends have moved to California and my friends live all over the world and are constantly moving around, impossible to visit everyone. Lastly, we live in Australia, we moved here. We're not on exchange or studying abroad and we're not returning home after we graduate. We're simply moving one. We gave away, stored or threw away anything we would no longer use or need. I even got rid of my raver pants, that was tough. We can pack things up here in a flash and move to in two shakes of a lamb's tail. Plus, anything you can get in America you can get here. We can spend every day of our last semester here stuffing faces with 'good' food and watching crap American movies.

Things are much to complicated to spend much time in America anyhow: no car insurance, no health insurance, no dental insurance, not enough time to get a job, not many friends and we have no car to get around in. Probably not much many either. Does that sound like much fun?