Why do I title my journal with quote above? How do you interpret it?
I want you to sit and think about it; I want you to talk with your peers and teachers about it. We'll come back to my interpretation later.
Anyway.
Now, a little bit about me, and how I ended up in Uruguay with the Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship (ETA) grant:
It was summer 2015, and I had been studying abroad in the Czech Republic. My memories of the trip revolve around feeling limited, particularly in my language ability. It seemed everyone in Central Europe had their native language, some Russian, and at least functional English under their tongue. The only language ability I had beyond standard English included a few pompous SAT vocabulary words.
That summer, I resolved to the do the following: Once I finish college, I will go abroad to serve learners of my language; in the meantime, I will learn theirs. I will break down my own borders.
I had always intended to serve others while expanding my abilities, but now the means were clear. So in the spring before graduation, I applied to volunteer as an English teacher in Ecuador. No fue el pez el que descubrió el agua (It wasn't the fish that discovered water)
