Live a life less ordinary,
Live a life extraordinary with me
For those of you who do not know, I have moved to Baltimore (pronounced Bawmore if your a native) about a month ago. I work for the DNR teaching inner city students environmental education while they do maintenance work for the parks. We have only had the kids for a week now, and there have already been a while handful of problems, but generally they are all having fun. I am sure I will have stories from these kids, one has already told me I have "wonderful eyes" (He was trying to get out of a punishment for being late, didn't work). Everyone I work with is amazing! They have really taken me under their wings and have made me feel really welcome, so I am very appreciative of that.
I live in a row house in downtown Baltimore about 3 blocks from one of the major bar areas. I have only been out once so far, but plan on taking advantage of that again soon. The house is really nice and we have an amazing deck roof which over looks all of downtown. It is weird going from living in the middle of the woods with no one around to having 150 + people living on my block. The noise level is taking sometime to get use to and there always seems to be at least 5 helicopters flying around above us.
It is great to have Crista here, she has been a big help. This move would not have happened without her. She found me a place to stay and let me stay with her until my house opened up. I did miss that girl, so I really like having her close by again.
So, the latest news in my life is I got an amazing job in that starts in August, but its in Maine, so I will be moving again! This could be a more permeant outdoor education position, it depends on how I like the program and how much they like me! It is a leadership/outdoor education school that works on having the students and teachers form a community. Its kind of hard to explain, but I am sure I will be able to do it much better once I am out there.
For the first 3 months I am an intern there. I get to stay in cabins (yay :( ) with the kids, but also learn a lot about the program and my teaching style. I can't take the cats with me for the first 3 months because I will be staying in cabins, so if anyone would like to babysit them, let me know!!! Then after the 3 months, if it is a good fit for all, they my offer me a full time teaching position in the spring, and I could stay the summers to do be a naturalist for their summer camp. So if I get the teaching job I would probably be there for a few years, if not, then its a new place all over again! We will see!
Peace
