{"id":10360,"date":"2024-08-19T01:46:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-19T01:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=10360"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:31:58","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:31:58","slug":"starting-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=10360","title":{"rendered":"STARTING OVER"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tomorrow I start a new part-time job as an adult English teacher to recent immigrants.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;m a little nervous about the time commitment. (I will be in class twice a week, 3 hours at a time.)<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But I am also getting a little excited about this opportunity and the chance to get to know these individuals.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last week I shadowed a couple of different teachers so I could get an idea of how things run and the people I met were so sweet and earnest and grateful.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Whatever else you might say about immigrants, their life in the U.S. is far from easy. It&#8217;s tough navigating a foreign culture and its systems when you don&#8217;t know the language.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And for some, the move to the U.S. demanded large sacrifices.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I met a\nsweet Haitian woman from Port-au-Prince who is now living in Columbus and working hard to learn English. She was dignified and feminine and beautiful.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I asked her what she was doing for work here and I was surprised to hear she is stocking shelves at Lowes. A very physically demanding job.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When I asked her what she had been doing for work in Haiti before she left the country, she dropped her eyes and sadly uttered one word: Lawyer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow I start a new part-time job as an adult English teacher to recent immigrants. I&#8217;m a little nervous about the time commitment. (I will be in class twice a week, 3 hours at a time.) But I am also getting a little excited about this opportunity and the chance to get to know these [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10360"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10361,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10360\/revisions\/10361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}