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Wanna Say Goodbye but Dunno How December is coming. However, I am not certain about any plans for this season. My husband is asking me what I want to do for the two weeks break. I am jokingly telling him; I wanna go home to the Phil. He has no objections but I have a lot of things in my hands now that I can not go for a long time. Definitely, I can not travel overseas this time. Secondly, he is reminding me to fix some of my things so that we can move them ahead of time to his home in Prescott. WE have an agreement that this is my last year here in Nogales. After this year, I have to move somewhere away from the border. I feel sick everytime I realize that days are fleeting. Everytime I hear the longings of my middle schoolers to share with me their dreams next years, I want to cry. The border has been showing me lots of learnings and it teaches me daily the essence of real teaching. I have frustrations with my students because II am expecting them beyond they can do. However, when I stepped out of my comfort zone and reaches to them I have seen how hard the situations they are struggling with and how complicated the structure of the environment they call FAMILY. My students taugt me the meaning of real compassion. In return, by setting myself as an example, I have infected them the value of education and how education can help in improving their own conditions. I had experienced being lambasted by a custom officer while we were crossing the border but its nothing compared to the new learning that my students had experienced. Whew!!! I guess, I have been drawing much from myself that I have shared a remarkable part of me to these boys and girls. Two years is almost over. I am grateful, I never have problems in my work and with my class. I established a very good rapport with everybody including the parents. I enjoy the warmth of welcome from these mexican families despite of our language barrier. Sometimes this December, my director will also come to discuss with me our next year plans and programs. I will be working to prepare them but I have my husband who is waiting for me to load some boxes to our trailer on our way to winter break as well. Tough!!! Maybe this is the price being married while working with my career. Now I have to choose and making a choice is not always FUN. |
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yeah time goes by fast...we were just chatting about your adventure in arizona back then...now you're here and enjoying your time HAPPY THANKSGIVING FOR BOTH OF YOU AND BEST WISHES TO COME.... MANNY 
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Antonio, It is nice to see you again and I am glad you are still blogging. You make me blush here.. Hahahaha. Anyway, I love Prescott and I actually got a job offer there for next year. I will surely move because I am going with the post graduate program of NAU and this coming summer I am required to stay full time in the Flagstaff campus. I am not going to drive 300+ miles whenever I have a class there. Besides, I love the inner places of AZ, I am just conditioning myself now that I will be moving again. I hope you will find the part of your missing canvass soon. It is sometimes hard to get away from freedom but my joy is always complete if I am with my husband and I will see him happy and proud of the choice he made to marry me. I guess he deserves these happiness because he is not growing any younger. I have to admit, it booast his manly identity everytime his friends compliment him for the choice he made. I have to be very honest here too. I had experienced getting some offers and proposals from my hubby's younger friends. However, that is the not the point of my marriage. It is always the respect that I pay to my husband thats why I can not stop myself to feel sorry for them.
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Jense, It's hard to live behind people you love. But, you will make the right decision and keep all the treasured memories. God bless you both and happiness abound!!!  Thats true specially if the experiences they offer are all good. Thank you and have a great week ahead too.
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just choose whatever is best for your opportunity...
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Hey, Jenny! I didn't know you got married already? CONGRATULATIONS, girl! where was I when this happened? I said my "I do" last May '09. Luckily, I married one of our school psychologists here in AZ. Hahahahaha. Do not ask me why and how come. I can not answer those questions.Things happened so fast. All I knew is, One day I just found myself married with a wedding ring and engagement ring all placed in my fiingers at the same time. I haven't change my status yet. I am still single in my papers.
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11/23/2009 8:31 pm |
Hey, Jenny! I didn't know you got married already? CONGRATULATIONS, girl! where was I when this happened? Just call me ELZ 
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just choose whatever is best for your opportunity...
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11/23/2009 7:40 am |
Jense, It's hard to live behind people you love. But, you will make the right decision and keep all the treasured memories. God bless you both and happiness abound!!!
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