my "job"

i thought maybe i'd explain what i will be doing here for the 2 yrs i'm here.  there is a special high school here that concentrates on the english language, english is the priority for this school.  there are 4 english teachers, including my counterpart, and i'll leave the teaching to them.  how i will help is by visiting the classes and reading to them so they can hear a "native" speaker. i will help out with the dialogues and other things that would be benificial  if spoken by a native speaker.   i will also be visiting the hostel, where the students not from here live m-f, and checking to see if they understood their day and the material discussed.  there is also a kindergarten i will be helping out with.  the kg's over here are a little different.  they are like our child care centers.  chances are i will be doing something with english there too.  i will also be helping out a little in the municipality, or the government building doing what i'm not sure.  on the side there are always english classes to teach, since i'm an expert at teaching, and let's not forget the main reason i'm here...to work with youth.   i will be busy and time will fly!  there's also traveling to different parts of B i want to do and other countries.  AND to top all that off there is mandatory traveling, for additional training which is always helpful, for the corps.  when you add into there the fact i have to integrate, learn a new language, and everything else that comes with living alone, it took me the whole wknd to hand wash some clothes,  i don't think i'll be lacking for anything to do!  all this can seem overwhelming and the corps has done a great job of letting us know what really matters; not to loose focus of the reason the corps was started and that was for world peace and friendship (i can't help but thins of the miss Am pagent every time i hear this).   we will have great ideas that will go nowhere and we will try things and will fail and that's just the way it's going to be.  I'M here to represent my corner of America, the America that i live in and am very happy in.  I'M here to learn about B and to let you all see what i see.  i want to show B's that America is not always like it is portrayed in the movies or on the radio.  i want to learn B ways of doing things.  i want to have b friends and when they talk about America they can have a slice of what it's like to live there b/c they know me.  i want to bring b back to the states and show you all what i learned and experienced.  it will be a very interesting, trying, at times frustrating, at times exhillerating, and many other emotions thrown in there, 2 yrs!  that's a little picture of the next 2 yrs!  now it's off to study some B language!  happy monday!