Our Big Fat Nomination
This week when we were supposed to hear about whether we were nominated for next June or not. Apparenlty other couples were getting nominated and I wanted to know if we'd be one of them. So I decided to send an email to our recruiter, even though I knew he'd have left the office already being that it was around 7:30pm New York time. I figured my email would be the first one he'd look at the next morning. Wel...I randomly get an email and it was from our recruiter:
"Good news!! Placement has found a spot for both of you."
We're slated for Community & Organizational Planning (Community Development &/or Urban & Regional Planning) for Will and Community & Youth Development for me.
Not only did the.y find a spot for both of us, but they are sending us to Latin America in June! Whether or not it was a spanish requirement, I'm not sure. But we both have exellent competence in Spanish and can only think that that had something to do with it. I grew up speaking Spanish and have lived in Latin America for half of my life. Will has studied Spanish for ages, majored in it and we both spent almost 3 years living in Spain.
I was really shocked to have been nominated for Community & Youth Development because while I do have experience working with refugees, immigrants and non-English speaking background students, it's in ESL. But they think I can do, so I do too. When I called Will and told him what he'd been nominated for he was ecstatic- he was in disbelief- because he's been hoping to become 100% fluent in Spanish for some time and begin his career in development in Latin America.
When we first came to Australia we decided that after grad school we'd move to Latin America, we didn't know how we'd do it or when exactly. But we figured the Peace Corps offered a slight possibility of going there. That must have been like a 5 out of 100 chance. We're so lucky to have gotten this nomination!
We're not leaving for another 10 months but, I can barely concentrate today. I have a workshop to attend on how to build your own disposible corpus (feel free to look up that word). It's as interesting as it sounds.
"Good news!! Placement has found a spot for both of you."
We're slated for Community & Organizational Planning (Community Development &/or Urban & Regional Planning) for Will and Community & Youth Development for me.
Not only did the.y find a spot for both of us, but they are sending us to Latin America in June! Whether or not it was a spanish requirement, I'm not sure. But we both have exellent competence in Spanish and can only think that that had something to do with it. I grew up speaking Spanish and have lived in Latin America for half of my life. Will has studied Spanish for ages, majored in it and we both spent almost 3 years living in Spain.
I was really shocked to have been nominated for Community & Youth Development because while I do have experience working with refugees, immigrants and non-English speaking background students, it's in ESL. But they think I can do, so I do too. When I called Will and told him what he'd been nominated for he was ecstatic- he was in disbelief- because he's been hoping to become 100% fluent in Spanish for some time and begin his career in development in Latin America.
When we first came to Australia we decided that after grad school we'd move to Latin America, we didn't know how we'd do it or when exactly. But we figured the Peace Corps offered a slight possibility of going there. That must have been like a 5 out of 100 chance. We're so lucky to have gotten this nomination!
We're not leaving for another 10 months but, I can barely concentrate today. I have a workshop to attend on how to build your own disposible corpus (feel free to look up that word). It's as interesting as it sounds.
3 comentarios:
Congratulations!
congrats adrianna and william! just remember to be patient and flexible.
THANKS!!!! It was certainly about time...I think I can relax a bit now...we've got our foot in the door so the rest will surely follow.
cheers!
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