Let's clarify what I was talking about...
Hmm. I guess I needed to be more clear. I'm not planning on teaching English in Armenia. I served a 2 year LDS mission in Armenia from August 2001to August 2003. If I was to go back it would be to see all the people I taught and associated with. My trip would be for nostalgic purposes mainly. Albeit, I feel like there is something else pulling me back there. I don't know what it is tugging at my sleeve to got back and visit... maybe I'm making it up in my head, but maybe somebody really needs me.
If I go alone, I'd like to stay for up to 3 weeks, and just tour the country on one of their cheap motorcycles, and spend the night at native's homes. They would love that, I would love that. I would bring a suitcase home full of Armenian books so I could keep keeping up on my shabby Armenian. I would take gifts to all my Armenian friends from the States. I would eat Khorovats and Lavash and drink Tan and Jermuk... it would be good times.
If Dad and my sis Anne Marie came, we'd have to stay in a hotel or a rented room, we wouldn't be able to stay there as long. Maybe two weeks max. But special things are always made more special by sharing them with those you love. Don't you agree?
One of my dreams when I was living in Armenia was to return and spend a summer in an isolated Armenian village keeping bees. Isn't that a weird dream? It would be a blast, and I could probably live pretty cheaply. But it just doesn't seem practical. But why should I be practical all the time? Actually, I should probably be more practical than I am.
Teaching. The whole teaching thing is about me being a High School English teacher. I'm going to the University of Utah majoring in English Teaching, and all I want to do is graduate and have a class room of my own so I can help kids learn to love to read and write like my great High School teachers did for me. I'll never forget reading John Donne in Mr. Beeson's class, or reading Arthur Miller in Mrs. Selytina's class. Ect. But, I've only been home from my mish (mission) for a little over a year and a half, and I am just completing my second year in university... so I have some time left before I get to teach. Hopefully someday I'll meet someone who's cool and who thinks I'm cool and we can be cool together. Yeah, I mean get married.
Oh, I've done my fair share of dating, but there just aren't that many interesting people out there. Isn't that awful for me to say? Like it'd be nice to actually go out with someone who's read a book before or written something. I guess by interesting I mean finding someone who's interested in the same kinda stuff I'm interested in. I suppose that's only natural.
I always have these crushes from afar. Is that weird? I've heard from friends of mine who are girls that girls have far away crushes sometimes too. But would that be weird for a girl to find out that some random stranger who she's talked to less than five times has a crush on her? I'm not a stalker or a freak... I don't think. How would I know if I am?