[post from July 2012]
A question from a job interview this year: "Tell about a time when you had a lot of deadlines to meet and had to prioritize."
If you gave me that question now, I would have a lot more examples. On May 15 of this year, I got a text message from my roommate, a high school Spanish teacher, planning two week trip to Spain with her students. "Julia's (another Spanish teacher) mom is sick and she can't go. Are you sure you have to work??"
Confession. I was driving to work to sign my summer contract when I read this message. I called Carolyn immediately and said, "WHAT? ARE YOU SERIOUS?" She was. I drove to work and spoke to my boss. He said, "Well, I don't see how I can tell you no."
And just like that, I was going to Spain.
That night, I had a job interview for a part time job teaching swimming lessons. The next day, I turned 25 and actually started to believe that I might be going back to Spain. By the next Friday, I had been hired as a tutor for a sweet little boy and had purchased a plane ticket to visit my Spanish home of Andalucía while the girls did homestays.
Have you ever been on a ride at a carnival, or even a merry-go-round at a playground and experienced the sensation that everything is spinning around and around? You can see colors and maybe whatever is moving on the actual merry-go-round, everything else is out of focus. My life has felt like that for the past month and a half. Most of the things spinning out of focus are positive and beautiful, and for a while, they jump onto my merry-go-round a few at a time and I can see them and enjoy them. But I sort of wish the whole thing would just hold still.
A question from a job interview this year: "Tell about a time when you had a lot of deadlines to meet and had to prioritize."
If you gave me that question now, I would have a lot more examples. On May 15 of this year, I got a text message from my roommate, a high school Spanish teacher, planning two week trip to Spain with her students. "Julia's (another Spanish teacher) mom is sick and she can't go. Are you sure you have to work??"
Confession. I was driving to work to sign my summer contract when I read this message. I called Carolyn immediately and said, "WHAT? ARE YOU SERIOUS?" She was. I drove to work and spoke to my boss. He said, "Well, I don't see how I can tell you no."
And just like that, I was going to Spain.
That night, I had a job interview for a part time job teaching swimming lessons. The next day, I turned 25 and actually started to believe that I might be going back to Spain. By the next Friday, I had been hired as a tutor for a sweet little boy and had purchased a plane ticket to visit my Spanish home of Andalucía while the girls did homestays.
Have you ever been on a ride at a carnival, or even a merry-go-round at a playground and experienced the sensation that everything is spinning around and around? You can see colors and maybe whatever is moving on the actual merry-go-round, everything else is out of focus. My life has felt like that for the past month and a half. Most of the things spinning out of focus are positive and beautiful, and for a while, they jump onto my merry-go-round a few at a time and I can see them and enjoy them. But I sort of wish the whole thing would just hold still.
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