About three blogs back, I wrote Starting 2014, and mentioned how excited I was to do an after-school art program in my last year of Peace Corps service. My teaching load has been reduced by one class from last year which gives me time for secondary projects, organizing a school library system with the English teacher, as well as art classes. Holding off on the art program for one year turned out to be a good thing. It really took the year of teaching to better understand (get used to) South Africa time. I mulled over my ideas, and then, at the last minute, things pulled together amazingly well. My advice is to keep paying attention to things on the back burner, and when the time seems right, just go for it...and the rest falls into
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