Going back to school again is exciting - I used to say that if I could do anything for a living, I would be a professional study abroad student - but has already got me thinking about the next step, since I’ve heard rumors that you’re not supposed to be a full time student forever and everyone keeps asking me why I am here and how I plan to use this experience in my career. So far being here makes me want to:
a) teach ESL in a similar intensive program at an American university or more generally work in international/language education,
b) use my French somewhere else afterwards, such as teaching English in France, joining the Peace Corps or another program for teaching in Francophone Africa, or lead American high school study trips in Guadeloupe or France,
c) continue studying languages and cultures, maybe a month or two of intensive German or Italian or Russian here or there, a summer at Middlebury in Portuguese, or perhaps a PhD in Portuguese and Brazilian Studies,
and perhaps most of all
d) stay here doing exactly what I’m doing.
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