I've kinda been telling everyone how excited I was all week. haha
I'm a certified ESL teacher now. =D
This week I'd been taking part in a TESOL class (Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages). And after a very long week I now have certificates that say I can teach English. haha
Now, if you haven't heard anything about this so far you may be wondering "wait, I thought he was really bad at English and kinda hated it? Why is he going to teach it??" And I would fully agree with that thought. I also have had many of those thoughts this week and before as well. So let me explain how I am now at a place where I cannot wait to teach English. xP
So, I've been trying to figure out what I should do after I graduate. There's a huge list of things and options and that's great, but I really want to figure it out and the thing I really want most is to go overseas somewhere for a coupe years and do mission work. I really didn't have much of a plan. Kinda the same places as always where I'd been with P2C and just figuring out whether I should go to one place, or the other, and what God's will was.
I was talking with Pastor DB and sharing a little about this and he told me about this CRAZY AWESOME opportunity to go to Japan!!!!! Apparently we have a sister church in Tokyo! They are a newer multicultural church and they need some people to come help. Apparently they've got a bunch of Mandarin speaking seekers too, which is also cool. BUT! Tokyo is a really expensive place to live. I wouldn't be able to go over and just rely on support raising. The guy from the church apparently has some English teaching positions available. So I had been thinking about this quite a bit.
I was praying and really, I want to go to Japan. Since back in like grade 10 I'd been saying I'd go to Japan after university. So I started praying a bit for clarity about what I should do after I graduate and kinda also asking that I can go to Japan. A few weeks before it occurred to me that I can pray for what I want, which is true. If it is in accordance with God's will He will make it happen. And if not it'll be pretty clear.
Before taking with Pastor DB I had been rewatching Cardcaptors and had noticed that my Japanese is actually good enough to not need to read the subtitles to get the gist of what they are saying. The day after I got an email with the following subject "Hawaii, Panama, Tokyo – the world has never been closer". A day or so later I had a dream in which I was a missionary to this random island in the Caribbean or something. I needed to get a direct flight back to Canada so I needed to talk to the airport workers. They asked me some questions and I ended up telling them I believe in Jesus. They asked what I think about prophecy and I said something about how me going to Japan to share the gospel would be an answer to prophecy or something. (It was a great dream btw) And then a couple days later just walking through the University Center there was a career fair. There was a booth for an ESL Teacher course and the only flyer they had on their table was for the JET programme which is for teaching in Japan. At a weekly meeting the speaker talked about a Carleton student who went to Japan and was praying for them and crying.
Somewhere in these weeks I needed to sign some banking things and ended up by the Clubs office. Right across from it is the students association and in the window was a poster from like back in 2nd year frosh week. The Buried Life was visiting and on the poster we were encouraged to write one of our items on our bucket list. I couldn't exactly think of anything until I thought "share the gospel in Japan".
I'm SOOOOO Down to go to Japan. haha.
Why do I feel the need to justify this? Why can't I just go?
I made a friend in class. He's so down to go to Japan too. haha. I really want to go together and be like best friends and it'll be so awesome. Teaching English and living in Japan. I'll have so many chances to share the gospel.
Praying for these things. haha
Ttyl.
D.Fa
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