First Blog Ever!

I have never had a blog before. Personally, I felt like it was like putting my private journal for everyone to see. My friend convinced me to create a blog site for my upcoming adventure because she wanted to know everything and figured that everyone else would too. I felt she had a point and thought it was a good way to keep everyone update on my life in the Ukraine without having to write forty different letters every week.

I will be going to Ukraine to teach English to children. I am very excited because it incorporates three of my favorite things. I love to travel. I love to teach. And I love to serve. So I figured why not do this. It’s a once in a lifetime opportunity to gain teaching experience (which is what I am going to school for) and to see what is outside America.

This is my first time out of the country so not only am I excited but I am also scared. I won’t know anyone. I won’t have familiar faces to cling to. I am not too worried about that. What I am worried about is getting lost. And many of you know that I lack navigational skills. I like to say that I am directionally challenged. So I will have to make friends so that way they can come with me and make sure I don’t get lost somewhere in Ukraine.

For a while, I was on the fence. I wasn’t sure if I could afford it, not only financially but also academically. I have been to school before I came to BYU-I and I wasn’t sure if I could afford putting off a semester pushing my graduation back (making me older than I would have been). I don’t want to be thirty by the time I graduate.But I also knew if I didn't do it now, I wouldn't be able to later in life and I would regret it.

I look forward to everything I am going to see and all the people I will meet. I will miss America, and I will miss Idaho, but most importantly, I will miss all my family and friends. 

I will do my best to keep everyone up to date on my adventures across the world. I hope that you enjoy my blogs.