My internet is down at the house so this week will be shorter as I am using the computer at school. So here´s a quickie update...
1. Countdown to the end. With everyday, the fact that my time here is almost done becomes more real. With that has started to come the nostalgia for what I will miss here. So yes, I am ready to go home, but I am grateful for the year I have had and all the great experiences and people. All I have to say is strange.
2. My time not in school isn´t as "free" as I expected. I feel like I have had a lot more social interactions lately, mainly because I will be leaving soon. (I have people I´d like to hang out wiht before I go, and sometimes they are "Let´s invite Michelle" quick before she leaves.) Either way, it has been nice, but it sometimes makes school work hard to get accomplished. The plan is to make a list of "must do" for social, school, and moving-transition needs and desires so that everything will get done (as well as start to say no!).
3. The house: Love my new housemate! She is super easy to live with, considerate, younger than I expected, she has a 3 year old son who stayed with his dad back in the Baja, is gone much of the day so I still have space to my self, but we also get along well when we are around.
As of tomorrow, I will have a roommate, a fellow exchange student from Spain, who has had many unexpected difficult events happen at the end of her year stay here and so the Exchange program (and I) invited her to live at the house.
4. BGSU work... like stated above, time is slipping away. Sometimes all the other time demands make me super stressed and sometimes it´s a good break and motivator. Anyway, with that, I have changed my goal to getting all of the work done here and so will be saving 1-2 papers for the US. (I´ll have until the end of the TA training week in August.)
5. Ok, all! Have a good weekend!
Adventures of living abroad on my own
Blog Background
Starting August 2007, I will studying at the Universidad de Sonora (UNISON) in Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico for the first year of my graduate program in Spanish. In the summer of 2008, I will return to the United States and go to Ohio to complete the second year of my Master's program. As an undergrad, I lived and studied in Denia, Spain for a semester and loved the experience. Ever since, I have wanted the opportunity to live abroad again. Mexico is an ideal location for me as Denver, CO has a very large Mexican population. For the past five years, I have taught 3rd grade in a bilingual classroom and the vast majority of my students have been of Mexican descent. I plan to return to return to Colorado upon completion of my studies and I believe this experience will make me better able to serve. I am using this blog to help document the year for myself, share my experience with family and friends, and be a reference for other students planning to study abroad in Sonora and/or elsewhere.
