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Saturday, March 7, 2009

The Scoop on Camphill...Finale

It's been a while since the last post. Sorry, but we've been pretty busy around here. We just got back from Spring Break (post on that to come later) and before that we had midterms.

Here it is, the third and final installment of our blogs on Camphill

I'll just go ahead and do the last one because Aaron has been a bit busy/stressed out lately (more on that later t00).

So, onto the final few questions:

"What about grad school?!"
Well, we're obviously not going right now. I hope to eventually get my Master's degree in Speech Language Pathology. I will have to take a few prerequisite undergraduate courses (4 or 5) prior to enrolling in a graduate program so it might take a little while. As for Aaron, he hasn't really decided what he's going to do next. He has really enjoyed working at the high school so far this semester and maybe will someday work as a crisis counselor. That's completely up to him. Our plans for the near future (other than Camphill) are a little bit up in the air at the moment. We've decided to keep our stay at Camphill open-ended. If we love it and they love us, we might stay for a second year (you can qualify for the Americorps grant twice so if we do decide to stay a second year we'll get the same grant again).


"Why aren't you getting a 'real job'?"
Prior to getting married I decided that I wanted to give back in some way. I applied for and was accepted to go on a summer-long mission trip to India last summer. However, I ended up staying due to my financial situation. I had a really nice-paying job that was helping me to also pay for school, and they definitely wouldn't hold my position for me over the summer. So I stayed and we moved the wedding up. We had discussed it and Aaron also wanted to serve others in some capacity, although he definitely had a desire to serve more locally. He's the home-body type and holds to the idea that we should serve here in our own country.

So when we weren't really sure what we were going to do after graduation and felt sick at the idea of starting more school up right away, we began searching for service opportunities. We found Americorps, but didn't see anything in their listings that caught our eye. Then I found www.idealist.org which is basically an awesome search engine for service opportunities and news. We found the Camphill Soltane listing and it sounded perfect for us. We immediately loved the philosophy they have and decided to apply. It may not pay like a "real job" but it most definitely will be an amazing experience that cannot be duplicated in any other sort of setting. It's a way for us to serve others and grow (and it doesn't look bad on a resume by any means). There's plenty of time for "real" jobs in the future anyway.


"Will you be able to come back for _______?"
Honestly, unless it will somehow miraculously take place in Pennsylvania or during one of our holiday breaks, probably not. It's not that we don't care or that we want to miss out on things like graduations, weddings, birthdays, holidays, etc but we have made a committment to work 6 days a week, every week. We do recieve time off for holidays but even then it's not cheap to travel from Pennsylvania to Oklahoma and Texas. We'll definitely do what we can to visit, but it will most likely be on a long break and only a short visit with each part of the family. You're more than welcome to come visit us though! According to what I've read Camphill loves visitors, but be warned: if you plan on staying more than a day or two they'll put you to work :)

"What are you going to do after Camphill?"
Good question! That means we're not really sure yet. We're going to use our time at Camphill to figure that out for ourselves. Don't worry though, we'll let you know once we know.

I hope that this has answered most if not all of your questions. If you have any others or just want to know more about it, give us a call or shoot us an email.

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