thetallgringo

I graduated from the University of California, Davis in 2009 with a double major in Political Science and American History. After graduating, I spent a year and a half working in the private sector in San Francisco. Despite having landed a secure job at a good company, I couldnt shake the feeling that I belonged elsewhere. All my life, I had walked the practical pathI went to college, finished in four years and found a real job. Although I had done well for myself, I longed to find a way to do well for othersto break away from the safe harbor and do something, anything to make the world a little better, a little brighter. So I did something some might consider crazy; I turned down an impending promotion, quit my job and moved to Colombia to teach English in Bogotás southern slums as part of Harvard Universitys WorldTeach program. Although adjusting to a new life in a foreign country has not been easy, for the first time in a long time, I know I am exactly where I am supposed to be doing exactly what I am supposed to be doing. In other words, Im not in that safe harbor anymore.