9:24 p.m. - 19 February 2008
4-H VISTA rants
Once again, I'm still alive. I have not completely disappeared but I'm still stuck in Moscow.
I'm not going to school, but that is what everyone in Moscow does, but I am working.
I'm working for the 4-H office. Go figure. I've come full circle. I started "life" in 4-H and now I'm back in 4-H. The rules have changed in the short time I was out of the program but oh well. I've been with the office since August. I can leave at the end of May, but my contract is until the end of August.
I'm actually employed by AmeriCorps as a VISTA. That is pretty much a lot of fancy words for 'cheap labor'. Meaning that I'm suppose to work for poverty and represent poverty and I have to live poverty. And this may sound mean but my job is not about poverty. I'm suppose to get other people to do my job or something like that.
Since August, I've become and 'expert' on After School Programs, having read all the web sites that are out there in cyber space, and all the books that were donated to the 4-H office about after school programs. In short, it is a good idea just needs a lot of money and people to make it a success.
In the mean time, I'm job hunting. I don't think I will get any call backs until well into June so I'm not too worried about having to bail in May.
The thing is this: If I leave before May, I loose something like $4700 to put towards my student loans. That would help pay off a huge chunck of it. If I decide to hang around for another year, I can double that amount.
However, right now, I want out. But there are some openings in other places more suited to my end goals that will help pay off my student loans as well. Well, see what happens.
I know I'm going to have to pay them off at some point, but the question is this: Do I pay most of it off now, or a little bit at a time? Right now I'm looking at the typical 10 year plan. I'm not worried that I can't do it, I just want to have all my loans paid off now so I can start saving for moving and all of those other 'grown up' things, like...insurance (the many varieties), my own place (at least an apartment that I can aford to rent on my own and need a roommate to help pay the bills, and all of those other things.
You know, maybe having a place of my own would be nice because then I could have a kitchen set up the way I want it with all the dishes that I need and not have to peice things together and hope I don't over flow the bowl or break the motor on some cheap hand mixer. Oh well.
Tomorrow is a new day.
~*~Dream Dancer~*~
PS: See Meet the Robertsons if you haven't. It is a fun movie!
