A brand new start of it
After the past 2 years of teaching biology in Tanzania and the past few months of reuniting with loved ones in hometown Cincinnati, I'm moving from the Queen City to the Big Apple to begin teaching high school biology while going to grad school at Teachers College, Columbia University.
The program
The particular program I'm going for is a fellowship for returned Peace Corps Volunteers through which I'll work on my masters at Teachers College during summers and night classes over the next 3 years while teaching biology/life science in an underserved middle school or high school.
The purpose
As with the move to Africa, I'm moving once again both to learn and to serve. I'm getting an education in being a better teacher of science, and no doubt will have ample opportunity to grow as a student of life. I'm looking forward to the great diversity of my new community and all that it has to teach me. And I'm going in hopes that I can love and invest in a small group of those around me with genuineness, humility and the grace shown me.
The particulars
I'm moving up in early May. I don't yet have an address or know in which borough I'll be teaching. I'll probably have a temporary place for the summer and work out the particulars once I land a teaching job in a school. My cell phone number will remian the same (email me if you need it) and although its misleading, my primary email (amberinafrica) and blog are still the same.
Visitors are welcome! Although living arrangements aren't quite worked out yet, I'm looking forward to offering my courch or floor to any adventuresome visitors to the city as soon as I'm a little settled.
As always, I'm profoundly grateful for the many suculant gifts in my life... the space to transition, the support from loved ones, the joy of dipping into lives and communities here, homes and hearts that have invited me in, and God's patient grace over my messy growing process.
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