Hello! I have never done one of these blogs before, so we will see how this goes. My name is Ami and I am 20 years old. I am a college student at BYU-Idaho, studying social work. I have attended school there for 2 years and have wanted something adventures to do with my life but that is a little hard to find in Rexburg, Idaho. So I came home for the summer and found work at Jimmy Johns, which I love, and started to save for my first grand adventure.
So what is this adventure? Last year a good friend of mine told me about this program called ILP (the international language program) and how young adults volunteer their time and money to go teach English to children in various countries. I drilled her with questions for hours on our long roadtrip home and I knew then that I was going to do everything I could to become part of this program. The summer went by and I started to apply to teach English In St. Petersburg, Russia. I was accepted and had a countdown going for about 10 months. The days have drug on and on, I attended training in Utah and started working to save money for this trip. I still cant believe that I am leaving to go live in Russia for four months. RUSSIA! How insane is that?!? I have never been more excited/scared over anything before in my life!
Russia will hold many wonderful things for me to explore and learn. I will get to live with a host family, who knows little english, and I know little Russian. I will be with other teachers from America and we will be able to travel to Finland, Sweden, Ukraine, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. I am so excited to go to all the historically rich places in St. Petersburg and throughout Russia. It will be frightening and mind opening I am sure.
One more twist on this crazy adventure, I have never ever been on an airplane. Crazy, I know, my first plane ride will be international! Hopefully it will be a good experience. My flight plans go a little something like this: I leave from Seattle, WA at 5:20 am on Monday August 26th, then to Boston - Frankfurt Germany - then finally to St. Petersburg. I will arrive on Tuesday the 27th of August! I know that this is going to be a huge culture shock and at times I will miss the comfort of not only my home but of living in America. I have always wanted to see the world and now, finally I am going to do just that!
Until next time, go do something a little out of your comfort zone :)
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