I'm Back!

Sounds like a line from Narnia. But having the excuse of being on the more elderly side of life, I'm able to confess that I "lost" my blog between Indiana and Saipan back in August. Truly, life has been exceptionally crazy busy and just the thought of more output becomes overwhelming. (Just ask my Facebook friends--who have to put up with ancient status posts).

Nevertheless, we shall try again.

I think I can say that beginning a masters program through Biola University is sufficient cause for one's disappearance. Just as our new semester began here at Eucon, I began my first course towards an MA in TESOL. It was a grueling semester to put it mildly. The course was amazing--I highly recommend it to anyone who wants to teach English as a second language. In fact, I'm suffering from "discussion board" withdrawal after 15 weeks of interaction with 3 other distance-learning classmates and an amazing professor, Dr. Kitty Purgason. However, be prepared to work very hard. Practical, useful, immediate application studies made all the work worthwhile. And of course, I have a very understanding husband and son who picked up the slack when they could to keep our little apartment livable.

So that's where I've been. Four college ESL grammar classes, an ESL pull-out group of 4th-6th graders for reading, and a graduate course have been my life since the end of July 09.

Next time. . . tropical Christmas.