Acceptance

For those of you who didn't hear my cries of joy emanating all the way from my house, today I received acceptance into the University of Toronto graduate studies program!!

I have been accepted to do a Master's of Education in Sociology and Equity Studies in Education as part of their collaborative program: Comparative, International, and Development Education (CIDE).

I start in September and, while I am rather unexcited to leave the amazing province of BC for dreary Ontario, I am also very excited to have been accepted into one of the best schools in Canada and a really world-class program. The website describes the program as:

one of the world's largest, most diverse and dynamic graduate programs in the field of comparative education. More than one hundred and fifty graduate students and two dozen faculty from across OISE/UT are currently active in the program. Student and faculty interests span an exciting range of theoretical and practical issues - from the study of ethnicity and identity to the issues of globalization and global governance; from non-formal learning and citizenship education, to concrete problems of educational reform, social equality, language education, conflict resolution and community development.

So, over the next few months we are going to pack up and plan the move out there as well as give me some time to figure out what the heck I am actually doing. Here I was sweating over the acceptance but now the reality is hit that I've gotten myself into something big.

Keep us in your thoughts and prayers as these next few months are going to be momentous, from figuring out how to move across the country to simply staying sane through it all.

And yes, I finally did crack that world-famous beer, Peche Mortel.... it tasted like sweet, sweet acceptance.