Submit.

Today - oh, today - I completed and submitted my application to become a fellow with Teach With Africa. One week ago, I got an email about an infosession for this program, and I checked out the website, reviewed the terms, and thought, Eh, all summer? I don't think so. I promptly archived the email and continued with my day.

The next day, my director sent me a cryptic email saying, "Can we talk for a few minutes? It's nothing 'bad'" (a disclaimer that always makes you feel like it is something bad, even so).

I went to check in with her in the morning, but she was nowhere to be found, and I think it was already the end of the day when I happened to bump into her and we sat down to talk in her office.

She told me about an opportunity to participate with Teach With Africa. Somehow, coming from Colleen, it sounded different. I heard it better. More importantly, I saw myself there.

The next day, I went to the infosession, and while I was driving to Point Loma, I remembered that this had been a dream of mine since I was like, 20. I worked tirelessly on a Fulbright application in 2006 and developed a proposal to do exactly the things that this program does. Only now I had an in.

So over the weekend, in addition to writing my thesis and transcribing 2+ hours of tape, I drafted my application, updated my resume, and collected my references. Yesterday, after my mother fortunately told me the word I meant was "elicit" and not "illicit" (really changes the meaning of "feedback"), I submitted my application, and now we'll see.