April 4, 2009

My passport has arrived! As usual, the picture is awful (just like a driver's license picture), but now I can apply for my work visa. I have also learned I only need the immunization for Japanese encephalitis, which is a series of 3 shots over 3-4 weeks.



I've also started the process of moving in with my brother. My apartment lease is finished at the end of the month, and to save money, my brother, Preston, offered to let me stay with him until I leave. This also means he volunteered his basement as my storage unit for the next year, too! I've moved some things from my apartment and started to box up some of my classroom, much to the chagrin of my students.



I find it incredibly rewarding that my students are begging me not to go, but am confident they will do wonderfully without me next year. Every time I get a box out to take home, at least one of my students tells me to put it back!

At the first board meeting of March, Elkhart Community Schools approved my request for a leave of absence, which means I will have a job with ECS when I return. This was anticipated, but it will be nice to know I have a job to come back to.

That's all for now!