January is ending and with that in mind I’ll let everyone know how my month has gone.
After returning from the states for Christmas I was able to ride back up here to Jombok Hoas with the group that we were having for the week. That group was the CAS senior class. Most of you may know that CAS is where I spent last year teaching so this was an especially anticipated week. I had taught all the kids Geometry last year and they are a fun group of students. So the week was really great.
The next week we had a group from East-West International School. This was a great opportunity for the staff here to explain and facilitate all the activities here in English which is the main purpose of me being here in the first place. They did a great job, I was really happy to see that their confidence has grown to the point of wanting to try it. Of course I helped a little but they did most of the work.
The third week of January I went down to Kompong Thma to participate in PROCOM. This is a series of meetings between different ADRA people from around the country that are held every quarter. I learned a lot about other things that ADRA was doing here as well as how they were doing it. I even gave a couple of short verbal reports about JBH related things.
I had plenty of electricity and internet for these few days so it gave me the chance to take the next step in deciding what to do next year. I completed an application to grad school at Andrews University for the Community and International Development program. My grades in college are not as good as they should have been, they’re not very good at all basically, but I hope my test scores, recommendations and essay will give me a chance. We’ll see. I plan on applying to a few more places; I would also like to figure out what I would have to do to become a high school math teacher, specifically at an Adventist high school. Teaching math last year was something I really enjoyed and I could see myself doing that for a long time. But I could also see myself working for some place like ADRA in the international development field. I guess I’ll open a few windows and see which one God doesn’t close. Is that the right thing to do?
Last week we had a group here for a couple nights. ADRA has a new project starting up and are recruiting staff. JBH is an interesting place to conduct interviews but I think it was beneficial for everyone. If only the grad school application process had something like this…
