Life Goals

Sooo..basically my last few weeks have consisted of me sleeping late, watching tv, hanging around my house, and occasionally venturing out to see friends. Needless to say I'm SO bored I'm going crazy! I'm just sooo sick of waiting. I finally have everything I need...minus bug spray, candy (for my host family), and a belt. But I'm getting all of these things tomorrow. In the meeantime I've had a lot of time to think. And a lot of my thinking has been things I want to do in my life...and there's A LOT. I decided to make a list to just get all these things out of my head, so that I could really see all them. I know that the few of you that read this are probably going to think some of these are crazy and I know they are. But I still want to make them happen. I feel like I have so much stuff I want to do and there's just not enough time in my life to do it. Well anyway without further rambling, here's what I want out of life.

(Not really in any exact order)

-Complete a term of service with the Peace Corps in Guyana, South America ( soon to be in progress wooo!)
-Get my master's degree in something related to teaching at-risk and lower-income students.
-Complete a term of service with Teach America
-Live in Turkey for two years doing something related to teaching, maybe working on a base with the Department of Defense.
-Live in Prague for two year doing the same thing
-Visit (or live in) Egypt, Hungary, Greece, Morocco, Indonesia, India, anywhere in the Middle East
-Maybe complete another term of service with the Peace Corps in an Asian country
-Live with Cottrel in Charlotte, NC or somewhere in Georgia or Florida :)
-Adopt two children
-Get married (hopefully one day), have a family..yatta yatta
-be a foster parent
-work/teach at Childhelp USA
-take a sewing class and learn how to make clothes
-(This one is going to sound crazy) after teaching for many, many years go to culinary school for pastery chef and one day own my own bakery. I know totally random, but I LOVEEE cake decorating and things like that. Not that I'm very good.

Well this is all I can remember right now. But I'm going to look at this as more of a list of things that HAVE to be done rather than hope they get done. It feels pretty good to know that joining the Peace Corps was one of my dreams forever and its actually happening..kinda surreal!

(15 days!!!)


Until next time,

Leighton

P.S. I know my grammar sucks in these posts. I do know how to use proper grammar and punctuation. But since this blog is to just share my experiences and thoughts, I don't really worry too much about my writing style. I just type it as I think it. So please forgive.