I've written most of my Biblical Jordan post, but I'm still working on pictures.
In the meantime...
Feel free to post opinions here. I am considering, for the spring semester, having a room mate. The pros of this option is that if I allow it, then I will have someone else around to rattle around with me. I worry that the homesickness, after I've had a month of being at home, will be brutal. I'm already dreading it. Nothing will be new. There will be no honeymoon period. I'll just be here in this country and want to be home really bad. If I'm not rattling around here alone, then I won't have an opportunity to have that happen nearly as frequently. This would be huge, because I went through some really awful times here. Sometimes, it was truly horrible.
The cons are as follows:
I am too damn helpful. As a result, I've become the program mom, and people always want something, and are horrible about returning the favor. For example, I've had a roller coaster week. For no reason, I'd be depressed or upset for no reason at all. I feel like I've boarded the crazy train, and it's been rough. I'd already helped out a friend a bunch with her similar problem previously, and she offered to come watch movies with me, and return the favor. Well, it turned out to not be convenient, so she did not show up. I still watched movies and had pizza to myself...but I was reminded why I am so sick of this age group. The selfishness annoys me terribly, and my quickness to be the first giver always bites me in the behind. I think it would get really old if I had that kind of dynamic, and I could not escape to my own space.
The other choice I'm trying to make is whether or not I should change programs. Currently, I am in the language and culture program. I'm thinking about switching to the Intensive Language. This will make the total of my classes be in Arabic; zero English.
Pros: Will get much further along in my Arabic. I have to take a language pledge so everything is in Arabic, 24 hours a day. I should come home fluent.
Cons: no internship. I will have to only put this one internship on my resume, which makes me nervous. I really need to get a decent job next fall and start making some money.
So...that's it!
In the meantime...
Feel free to post opinions here. I am considering, for the spring semester, having a room mate. The pros of this option is that if I allow it, then I will have someone else around to rattle around with me. I worry that the homesickness, after I've had a month of being at home, will be brutal. I'm already dreading it. Nothing will be new. There will be no honeymoon period. I'll just be here in this country and want to be home really bad. If I'm not rattling around here alone, then I won't have an opportunity to have that happen nearly as frequently. This would be huge, because I went through some really awful times here. Sometimes, it was truly horrible.
The cons are as follows:
I am too damn helpful. As a result, I've become the program mom, and people always want something, and are horrible about returning the favor. For example, I've had a roller coaster week. For no reason, I'd be depressed or upset for no reason at all. I feel like I've boarded the crazy train, and it's been rough. I'd already helped out a friend a bunch with her similar problem previously, and she offered to come watch movies with me, and return the favor. Well, it turned out to not be convenient, so she did not show up. I still watched movies and had pizza to myself...but I was reminded why I am so sick of this age group. The selfishness annoys me terribly, and my quickness to be the first giver always bites me in the behind. I think it would get really old if I had that kind of dynamic, and I could not escape to my own space.
The other choice I'm trying to make is whether or not I should change programs. Currently, I am in the language and culture program. I'm thinking about switching to the Intensive Language. This will make the total of my classes be in Arabic; zero English.
Pros: Will get much further along in my Arabic. I have to take a language pledge so everything is in Arabic, 24 hours a day. I should come home fluent.
Cons: no internship. I will have to only put this one internship on my resume, which makes me nervous. I really need to get a decent job next fall and start making some money.
So...that's it!
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