Back in 2007 two good friends of mine went to Ukraine: Becca Hall and Amanda Black. They went with an amazing program called ILP. An organization that takes volunteers to foreign countries to teach English to schoolchildren. They have schools in Ukraine, China, Mexico, Russia, and now Thailand.
Last December I started thinking it was time for a change. I was almost done with my second year of college and I was ready for an adventure. I wanted to go out and see the world and make a difference. So I looked up ILP and after a few weeks going back and forth and trying to decide whether or not I was crazy I made up my mind to go teach in China. Shortly after I convinced my best friend Kareena Hudson to do the same.
Now my journey is a short 3 1/2 weeks away. I will be leaving August 25th a 11:11am. The flight will take around 23 hours and I'll be jumping to a time zone 14 hours ahead. I'm teaching at a school in Changzhou city in Jiangsu Province. It's just a little ways out from Shanghai on the Eastern Coast. I will be spending four wonderful months there. Our program ends December 19th but Kareena and I plan to stay longer to travel to Hong Kong to go to the temple there.
It's shaping up to be quite the adventure and I can't wait for it to begin!
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