Chinchilla.

Sorry about that last post. I've just been grumpy pants kinda today and yesterday.

It's a little complicated, don't really wanna get into it.

On the upside, it's sunny outside.

I also met with my old youth pastor mike and we talked about my future.

I asked him "paramedic, teacher, or youth pastor?"

and he said "yes."

so we just kinda figured out how that might work.

here's the plan.

at pierce i can take a course that would prep me for EMT and that only takes a while. Then I can be an EMT and work through school while I work towards a teaching degree. It would probably benefit me to attend a christian school because then after I get my teaching degree I want to get a pastor's license so I can be a youth pastor through the school that I work for. As far as which school to attend for my degree, mike said that i'd want to get a degree in the state that i want to start out teaching in, and if you teach at an inter-city (aka "ghetto") school for four years, they pay for your degree. I already was planning on starting out teaching in South Central LA, which is right around where I grew up. I literally had to move to Washington because private school was too expensive and my mom was afraid to put me in the LA school district. I've always wondered how I'd have ended up if I stayed in the LA district, so I guess now's my chance to find out.

I'm not sure how long I'd stay there, but I spose after a time I'd move somewhere where I could settle down and have a family, etc. And that's when I'd try to get my pastoral license and be a youth pastor through the school, like for example the young life leaders and stuff like that. So I could teach kids and everything, and not have to beat them over the head with a bible, but they know where I'm coming from. They know that there's something different about me, and hopefully that would compel them to check out what that difference would be about.

I dunno, it just seems like a really good plan. But it's a lot. So right now I'm just taking things one step at a time.

For now, I'm working on the road trip this summer and saving money.

Then, I'm enrolling in summer classes and trying to make up for the classes I failed back when I though I was too cool for college.

Then, full time student.

And we'll take it from there, I spose.