my next home

so ive been trying for a few days now to write an entry about finding out about my final placement.. and its been difficult..

im not really sure how i want to write it because im really feeling a mixture of emotions.. unlike coming to this family, i know where im going weeks ahead of time and i got to see what my host parents look like.. which is a little reassuring.. but its only a picture and its hard to tell anything from that.. All i can really post is that im going to be in the regency of nganjuk.. so if you wanna look that up and explore that region give it a whirl.. if you wanna know more specifics email me..

we also found out what type of school we are going to be teaching at and the class sizes.. im going to be teaching at an SMA which is a public school and my classes are going to be around 36-40 students.. thats enormous.. most of you know that i am a pretttttty shy person and having a huge class is hopefully going to break me outta that but the first few weeks might be really tough..

the plus is im by most of the people in my current village and im by some pretty awesome people.. krystal is in my same area and we are both close by to two current volunteers.. and then in the next regency over is maryellen, angela and dan and paige (the married couple).. a couple hours out is daniel and then erin.. so im by a pretty awesome group of people.. itll be nice to know if im ever having a rough time someone is literally right around the corner.. even though it may take like an hour to reach them..

i dunno i guess thats all i can really say.. that day was such a blur and i dont really feel like going through all the annoucements and how they placed us.. im just glad its over and i can move on with the rest of training..

which brings me to.. i have to teach another class at the end of this week.. hm.. betsy pulled me aside and said that they wanna see me teach another class this coming friday.. i dont know why but after i said ok and walked away i started feeling really nervous and scared that this could make or break me.. i thought i did fine with teaching and no one had said anything to me until this point.. so by the time i could talk to betsy again i was throughly worried..

we talked and it made me feel better but i still have nerves going into this thing.. i know the first few weeks are going to be tough and not much fun and i do need a confidence booster.. which is really all that is about.. their giving me a chance to teach by myself so i can get more comfortable in the classroom.. only thing that sucks is school is pretty much out and i dont want to do something boring since these kids are supposed to be volunteering their time.. ahh!

i found some stuff though in the billions of books ive gotten from the peace corps.. so hopefully i can make one of those work for a lesson.. thankfully it only has to be 45 minutes so its going to go by fast..

we also have a community project this week and we are going to be having a little thank you/ american culture expo thingy.. we are making some posters about the culture, having a power point with landscape, holidays, people, food, cities and what not to show how diverse we really are.. a lot of the time when people see people of another race they assume they arent american and it boggles a lot of people that you can be a different race and still be american.. so hopefully through some pictures and being out there and talking to whoever comes we can shed a positive light on the us and yeah.. theres also going to be food.. which is a bigggg thing here.. give them food and people will come.. hopefully it all turns out.. i just have to supply drinks and make pb and j.. lucky me..

ah im so tired and its only 630.. what am i going to do when i get back to the states? i was already called an old lady because i would go to be at like 9 or 10 most nights during school.. haha now im a little kid with a bed time before 7..

oh lord..

well im sleeping at the keys so im gunna get going onto dream land.. had to take the malaria pill tonight so the dreams should be pretty awesome haha..

as always, love you all :)