Excitement

The SF IRC is starting next week. It actually starts on Sunday for Admin people and Monday for teachers. I'm gonna go in early Monday to check in, watch some school presentations and scope out the scene. Gotta get the lay of the land and how things are organized. I'm figuring that I can talk to somebody that works there and see if they can give me the 411. Maybe chat it up with someone from a school that I'm interested in. Gotta be all Dog Whisperer style. Calm and assertive.


Mbh and I are going to talk this weekend about how we are going to answer possible questions they'll ask. We gotta have our rap down so that we don't stumble over ourselves when we interview with people. We also have to buy thank you cards for the places that we interview. I think that I'll do something Chinese themed to commemorate Chinese New Year and hopefully make us stand out. Which reminds me that I have to pick up red envelopes for my students. 


By this time next week, we should have our placement and we'll know where we'll be living for at least the next 2 years.  So after going through the job search lists and making our spreadsheet, we separately made our own list of top 5 schools. Both of us agreed on Santiago, Chile; Curitiba, Brazil; and Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Brazil and Vietnam don't fit into my whole learning Spanish idea, but a Spanish speaking country could happen in our 3rd and 5th year if not in our first two.