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I'd had another last minute cancellation which was in the heart of Houston, my only option with the sudden cancellation was to book further south. I was frustrated and upset with the host, but such is life sometimes. The quiet home with the family in Katy would later be an environment that I would later miss greatly. The hour long drive south couldn't have been more solemn as the news of our school downsizing lingered in the back of my mind.
One of my collogues had a family to support, others had the school as their only source of income. I was among the first to find out and it wasn't easy keeping it to myself. Of course, I was stressed and the guilt was seemingly all-consuming. I had music in my ear for the whole drive and on any other drive it would have been helpful.
After I'd settled into my room I met two of my housemates, they seemed like a nice couple. The following day I met a third who was a travelling lawyer that retired from the Navy, she was nice too. The good company would have helped, but the future lingered on my mind like the stink of an animal carcass.
The snarky comments poured in on our instant message platform. I don't know why, but my collogues thought that I was in some position of authority. I wanted to be there for them, but there wasn't anything I could say.
A former student contacted me, wondering when I was going to visit Mexico. Truth be told I wanted to visit after the holiday season, maybe hang out in Laredo and take a few days off to take a bus to Monterrey. I didn't explain to her what'd happened, but I thought about Mexico for a few hours and asked her about schools in her city.
The plan then became to sell my car, go all in, and make the move to Monterrey. It's risky because I'd never been there, but I'd also never been to Yerevan and I was thinking about relocating there after settling in South Dakota for a year. Now that my situation has changed, I would have to change.
This would be my last month of steady work with the school, and I would make sure that would be enough. I took it easy with my credit card, I saved up as much as I could. Now the plan is to sell my car and drop the eighty dollars to take an Uber to the Airport. Once I land I'll rent another Air BnB in Mexico, or rent an apartment for a month at a time and apply to a school I'd heard about there.
I'd be lying if I said that I wasn't scared, that I didn't miss my family, and that the future didn't utterly terrify me, but that's why I have to confront it. I escaped Florida, I can overcome this uncertain future. When the road ends, I'll take to the skies.
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