It has been some time since I posted to this blog. In the meantime several things have happened:
- I have become unemployed. In order to be available for the next adventure, I resigned my positions with Calgary Co-op and the YMCA LINC program here in Calgary.
- I became a person of “no fixed address”, spending most of July in Brampton, Ontario and most of August sleeping on the couch in NW Calgary, and being awakened by grand-daughter hugs.
- I have spent copious amounts of money Fed-Exing papers here, there and everywhere in order to obtain the necessary documents to teach English overseas.
- I have also spent too much time stressing about the time things take, and the things that might happen….
- I have obtained a visa that allows me to spend the next 10 months of my life teaching in Beijing.
Yes…Beijing, a place I never imagined going to. It was never on my bucket list, even when I began exploring the overseas teaching market. Mind you, I never planned to go to Paris either, and I had a wonderful adventure. So I anticipate these next few years with great joy and also a little stress, but I am in fact getting on a plane on Friday morning and heading west!
Biggest life lesson: I am not my own. God has bought me with a price and He knows the good things that are in store for me – and my family – now and in the future!
As you can see, my collection of vintage suitcases are well stacked, holding all the things I still want to have in my life. I had hoped to limit it to that, but alas, there is some overflow. Perhaps next year I will be able to release more of it for someone else’s enjoyment!
My next post may be from Beijing, so stay tuned!
A Journey of Ten Years 