Gratitude all the way around today! Yesterday, I was a happy and grateful guest for family Easter Brunch at my friend's farm, here in a remote country town of South Mississippi! What a feast!! T. spent all day Friday and half of yesterday cooking and prepping and I got to help. We made an amazeballs Louisiana Gumbo with shrimp, crab, local sausage, turkey, chicken, a million veggies, and spicy peppers! Then there were 20 or so other appetizers and side dishes including boiled jumbo shrimp with corn and potatoes, apple-carrot-banana bread, white chocolate creme brulee bread pudding... and so much more! A few days ago, I decided to check in on my Florida Teaching license to find out about adding an additional certification to my K-6 certification, and what do you know-- surprise! All the testing fees are waived for a year! I am so excited! More serendipity and another reason why returning to the US was perhaps a good thing after all! Time at the ashram, new friends, spending time re-setting my nervous system on T.'s farm... and now this! I've decided to sit for two exams: Biology 6-12 and Reading K-12. These add-ons will enable me to teacher higher grade levels if I wish, and at least specialize "officially" in Reading. Since there was very little real teaching going on at the school in China, I lost a lot of skills and knowledge and need to review knowledge for reading since I used almost nothing of my reading specialist background-- what a bummer! I worked so hard to gain a great set of teaching skills, and it was entirely wasted for 1.5 years! Now, I have to gain it all back! I hope it's "like riding a bike"! At any rate, the certifications will make me more marketable and increase my skill-set for teaching abroad again. There will be more jobs available, and what I am really hoping is that I will be able to find an excellent virtual teaching role that is subject-based rather than ESL! Science is always needed, so that cert is going to be a huge advantage for me! Yay! I am grateful to be where I am, for new friends, additional opportunities, new information about fasting and keto nutrition, the healing I am experiencing due to place and friendship and yoga practice, and freedom from stress and anxiety! I am grateful! I am grateful!
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