Six-dollar pants Friday

Woohoo! Today has been awesome!

1) I couriered off my documents to be apostilled. It was such a relief, I ate 5-6 black-forest Tim-Tams. Seriously though, I'm very pleased to be in the final stage of this lot of document processing and one step closer to Korea.

2) I had a long interview with that school in Korea. The job looked great on paper - In Bucheon, from 12pm-7pm, elementary level, nice Christian school. During the interview, however, I find out it's kindergarten, in Seoul, god knows what hours, and the Christian part is HARD-CORE. Like it's in the contract that you have to go to church, and you are not allowed to smoke or drink at all, ever, and you have to attend prayer meetings, and if you criticise the school or the administration, they can fire you on the spot. Also, they seemed to think *I* was a hard-core Christian, because they wanted to hire me, but first I had to write a one page testimonial about how I became a Christian and how much I love God and Jesus. So, while this was interesting, and it makes it onto the top five because they wanted to hire me, I've declined the offer.

This isn't my scarf, but it's similar.

3) I asked my morning class to write down one thing each they liked about my teaching and one thing the didn't. They wrote some very nice things, and the complaints were very mild. They seemed to feel that I was very patient, kind, and good at listening, but that I should do more varied activities and play more games. So, I'm pretty happy with that feedback :) Also, two students from Thailand left today and they gave me a lovely purple silk scarf as a present to say thank you for being their teacher. I actually really like it, and it was so sweet.

4) Went out to a bar with al the boys (and some girls). Had very mediocre calamari for dinner, but Brook had a lovely slightly alcoholic ice-cream slushie thing for dessert. It was Yum with a capital 'Y'. I drank half of it :) Then we played pool. Well, they played pool while I watched. It was a nice way to spend the evening. Plus I got to tell my Christian school of horrors story from above :)

5) Most awesome thing today? The nice second-hand shop in Browns bay is having a closing down sale and I got a great pair of tailored pants for work (grey-brown with light grey+gold stripes) for $6! They fit so well and look pretty nice! I also got a pretty pink top ($3) and a knit hat ($3). So, all in all, $12! I was very happy :)

Criminal Check Thursday

Blogger wouldn't let me post last night, so this update is actually for Thursday.

Woohoo! My criminal check came in the mail today! I have been waiting, literally, two months for it. It was supposed to take 20 working days. I'm so relieved it's finally here, now I can get this show on the road. I've got it and my degrees all packaged up to courier to get apostilled tomorrow. Hopefully they will be back next week.

1) My criminal check, obviously.

2) I've got an interview request from an academy in Bucheon. I think I'd like to live there. I did want to work Public school, but this place pays well, has ok hours (12-7pm), and reckons I can have up to three months unpaid vacation time. That's all I know. It's good to get a request, and I definitely want that vacation time, but one big worry is that it is a *Christian* academy. What does this mean?? I don't know :) I'll have to ask.

3) I sat and talked with some other teachers at lunch today. Normally I'm a total loner-workaholic, but I decided to stop today and get to know people more. It was really nice, and there's one teacher, Hannah, who sits down the desk from me, and she seems very cool. I'm pleased to have such a positive work environment.

4) On the subject of work, I've got a pretty interesting/challenging week next week. I've been moved to young-learners in the morning, and a beginners class in the arvo, two totally different classes from what I'm used to. This is good because it'll be more like what I can expect in Korea.

5) And lastly, I'm planning on spending Saturday afternoon with Janetta, which will be a nice catch-up! We haven't seen each other much lately, and it's always fun to hear about her art course and what she's up to :)