Months and months and months ago, I applied for a teaching assistantship program in France. On April 6 I received an email saying that I've been offered a job. This venture began a while ago....
In the fall of 2007 I was an intern at Georgia Tech Christian Campus Fellowship. My boyfriend Kyle (who was also an intern) and I were approached about an unique opportunity to found a campus ministry in France through a program called Globalscope. Kyle and I spend the next few weeks doing research and collecting every bit of info we could find on the French university system. Ultimately we determined that Toulouse would be our ideal destination to plant a ministry and reach out to college kids. We loved the vision and pouring our passion into this project, but both felt that God's call on our life wasn't exactly this route for a handful of reasons...
Kyle and I spent the rest of our year in ministry loving students and dreaming about how to make our lives an adventure. Kyle got a full-time scholarship to grad school at Tech and I started job hunting. We got engaged in September 2009--about a year after we completed our France research. Taking this step really made it feel like we could talk seriously about world travel together. With Kyle's grad program, he has the option to take courses at Tech's campus in Metz, France. He studies abroad there in his undergrad; it seemed like the simplest way to move to France while we are still young and free. I continued to look for career opportunities both here and in Metz. The best and most exciting job opportunity came up--the French embassy sponsors a program for English speakers to become assistants to French teachers. It was a ridiculously long application process; I felt like I was applying for college again. I sent it in in the end of November and then we waited....
and waited...
and waited....
until finally we got word that I am going to be offered a position in the same place Kyle can take classes. We are going to embark on our journey in August...and these entries are bound to become a bit more interesting....
Oh, and of course we are getting married before we go!
