Several things I have in the works right now:

Volunteering as GED tutor for Each One Reach One. Reforming the incarcerated is a cause that I feel pretty strongly about. This program would allow me to tutor individuals in a juvenile detention facility. Juvenile offenders are much younger, their minds more malleable and their entire lives still ahead of them, so it's important to intervene at that time before they continue on the same path and end up with more serious offenses in real prison. I hope to move on to helping with the education of adult inmates, which in my mind seems more challenging.

Volunteering at Full Circle Farms in Sunnyvale - I have this dream of owning and living off of a farm some day. I would raise my children on it and grow old on it. It's rather a romantic notion, and operating a farm is probably a much more challenging endeavor than I'd like to admit to myself. Nonetheless, I feel the need to prepare for it. I need farm experience, and living in San Jose, the primary avenues by which I may find experiences is either commuting to morgan hill/gilroy, or to sunnyvale. Sunnyvale it is!

EMT application - This has taken me forever. I should never put something that is so important off for so long. The next steps are to take my ambulance driver certification test, get my physical done, get livescanned, put my documents together, and submit it for a county license. I also need to review the course material. An EMT job would definitely change my situation financially. 16/hr for 30 hours a week is over 400 dollars a week after taxes. I could definitely move out within a month or two at most, pay back debts, etc.

As part of my EMT pursuits, I need to get my feet wet in Vietnamese, and improve my Spanish so as to better communicate with potential patients. With respect to Vietnamese, I am considering enrolling in Vietnamese class this fall at a community college. Improving my Spanish may involve volunteer work where I interface with many Spanish speakers. Sacred Heart Community Services? CET?

SJPD Volt - Being a volunteer for the SJPD