Back at being Busy

I've always loved to be busy. In college, I always had three clubs, work at the nursing home, work at the bakery, activities with friends, various campus events and... of course... classes and studying. Here, though, my first month back in Brazil after traveling was a bit slow. My classes were irregular, Carnival meant the city shut down, my English students wanted to wait until after Carnival to continue classes and my university here has no extra-curriculars.

However, I'm finally back to being busy. My first semester, I gave private English classes to nine different students throughout the week. As it's a new semester, most of my students could not continue and I was in search for employment.

Eager to finally be busy again with SOMETHING to do during the days (and have a little cash on hand, of course) I put up free ads online. Suddenly, though, an overload of employment is what I found. People from all over Sao Paulo were asking for me to teach them. I was contacted by business men and language schools, university students and international companies. And, thank goodness, I now have a busy schedule again.

I received a job teaching English for DHL, the American shipping company located a half hour from my house. Now, every night of the week, I am teaching group and individual English lessons there. During the days I have four or five other students to work with once or twice a week privately. And, finally, I am working with an English language company making recordings of my voice for langauge CDs and other materials.

As the semester continues, I might become overwhelmed. At this point, I'm hoping that doesn't happen, but we'll see. Now that I've already been teaching English classes for eight months, the lessons come very easy for me to prepare. For now, I'm content to know that I'm out and about meeting Brazilians and keeping busy instead of being bored at home.