Grad School News

I guess the excitement continues. After news in my family of an engagement, a baby, inauguration fun and so much more, life continues to move  full speed. I got a letter yesterday letting me know I got accepted to my preferred grad school. It is called the Bread Loaf School of English and it is a program run by Middlebury College in Vermont. It is pretty prestigious. I hadn't heard of it before, but my Aunt Sara says it is a great school. That was confirmed by some people from Vermont I met on a bus in D.C. It is a summer 8 week program. You attend 4 or 5 summers and get your master's degree. The coolest part is they operate from four different campuses: Vermont, North Carolina, Santa Fe, and Oxford. I am elated. By going with this program, I can keep teaching the rest of the year in Gunnison and travel around the world in the summer. Now isn't the best time to give up a good job, so I am counting my blessing with this program. Plus it will be easier for me to pay for school if I'm working full time. I applied to two other programs and will probably wait a little bit to see if I hear back from them, but this program fits so well into my life right now that I think it is the smartest (and most adventurous) choice. I know a lot of you are rooting for me to find a husband and get married, and my chances of doing that while staying in Gunnison aren't high, but I really am happy here. I love my job and the kids I teach, and for now that is enough. 

Anyway, you know me. :) The next adventure has presented itself, and I'm off to greet it. I get to live in Vermont for 8 weeks-- a dream of mine since I visited there the summer after my senior year. It's funny how life works out so differently for different people.