What I do with my free time...

I'm stuck in the med unit in Cotonou, and honestly there's not a whole lot of things to do around here. I have excessive amounts of free time on my hands. I could be doing a few things, catching up with friends, reading, working on my project for girls camp, the usual. But what I chose to do instead is... job search. Job searching has kind of become a past time/ hobby for me at this point.

Those who know me, know that I'm a planner. I love to plan. In elementary school and high school in the winter I would plan my summers, and know exactly what my summer would like like by April. When I was applying for college I did early action (different from early application) and knew where I was going to college before all my other friends did. I began my application to the Peace Corps the summer before my senior year. I had a plan before many of my college friends even started thinking about plans. A big reason why I enjoy planning is opportuntiy it gives me to dream about what I could be doing. So it's not surprising that I've given a lot of thought about what I want to do.

Here's what I've come up with so far. I'm going to return home to the states and work at the ski mountain in town for the winter. I'm hopefully going to work there until the spring ski season is over. Then I'm going to apply to work at a wilderness adventure camp/ national park guide. Which means that I'm probably living out west!

So this is what I've been doing lately, dreaming about where I'm going to be after Peace Corps. While I am sad about knowing that I'm going to leave Benin it makes me feel a little bit better to know that there is another life that is calling.

Update: Got a crown put on my tooth but it hurts to chew much more than it did before. It's been a few days since the crown was put on... we shall see.