Week 7 – Windswept and Unknown June 24, 2010
Posted by Liz Mead in : TESOL , trackbackCaptains Log: It does us all good to be out on the open seas finally! The salt spray, the white-capped waves, the sails unfurled, the wind in our favour. We’re making good progress. With a belly full of rum, the crew are in fine voice - I believe able-seaman J sang loudest of all ! I can’t say the same for our passenger Ms Longrange, who refuses to leave her cabin. It seems the pitching and rolling doesn’t suit everyone.
Hit the wall this week.
An $84 parking ticket from last night’s scramble to get a spot. Annoying, because I just didn’t read the sign properly.
This TESOL journey has certainly pitched me out of my normal routine. I’m developing my own brand of sea-legs. No flippers or fins yet, but this rocking and rolling certainly’aint from the sixties- it’s a whole new dance routine.
I can’t see clearly anymore. I don’t know where it will lead me and if it will lead anywhere.
I don’t expect to see the future as the present is where we’re at. But it’s a balancing act to maintain equilibrium and to keep my normal (increasinly busy) job balanced with these additional demands.
I have a foot in each camp and I feel an increasing chasm open beneath me. The chasm, aka “unknown” is my only certainty:
- Unknown environment = expensive mistakes
- Unknown content = no more free weekends
- Unknown future=need for flippers
- Unknown capabilities=fun
- Unknown contacts=15 new ones and counting
- Unknown adventures=a love of the open sea
Wouldn’t mind a compass though.
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Hi Liz, so sorry about the parking fine. TESOL’s not really the field to get rich in but it’s not supposed to make you $84 poorer either.
As Captain, I guess you get to decide on the rum rations so perhaps you could allow yourself an extra tot by way of compensation