Detours and Decisions

My knowledge project didn't quite turn out quite the way I had supposed. I had figured with what I saw in the brochure, that once accepted, George Fox would be a given, but when I went in for a private tour, I witnessed sticker shock. $29,900 annual tuition. Wow. I couldn't justify that kind of debt at my age. So I had to look at options.

PCC has a great transfer program. At $79.00 per credit I can get my General ed classes out of the way, and pay for the classes myself--that's a really great feeling. I can pay my full year's tuition plus get 24 credits and cover books. It feels really good to get to go to school and cover it myself with money I earned. I think I'll appreciate my education so much more for that. I know I'll work hard to get all I can from this experience. The more I think about it, I don't know that becoming an editor is realistic. I live nowhere near NY where all the big houses are, and I rather like where we are. I think I might enjoy teaching, as much as I love teaching writing, and the editing knowledge will still come in handy for my own writing. Who knows, maybe I'll teach writing at PCC.

No matter what we do, it's always good to have a plan B, a secondary plan that also reaches that main goal. My goal is to further my experience and education as a presenter and writer. I have to admit I love the presenting as much as I do the writing. It gives balance as I am just not a solitary person. I like being social.

My education is also expanding a second way. I've just been called to teach seminary, and my heart is just soaring with excitement. It's going to be a neat thing to really delve into the Old Testament and what an honor to teach truth to teens. It's going to be a new and exciting school year filled with determined doitism, faith, and prayer as I learn to do and balance.

I'm more than thrilled that I get to teach our youth, and am excited to continue my, long sought out, education for personal long term growth and service opportunity. PCC, here I come!