One of my recruiters contacted me and offered me a position with the Seoul Metropolitan Office HOWEVER I need 2 recommendations by early May to forward on to my school in Korea. Heh? How am I supposed to get these recommendations in such a short time? I'm not in school, and I don't feel comfortable asking my amazing professors only two weeks in advance to write me a recommendation.
They might as well ask me to fly to Pluto or something equally ridiculous...but I'll probably buckle down and do it.
In other news, I have another interview with a private language school which should be coming up this weekend. I might just end up going with a private school, because I don't know how "up" I am for working with 30 kids for 5 classes a day. It's just not in me. 10 kids I can handle, and give due attention, but I don't know about 30. I'll have to work up to that, I suppose. Maybe at a summer camp.
Maya should be heading off to Indonesia in July, and I guess I'll be leaving for Korea sometime in August. Damn my diploma taking so long. Oh well, I'll probably try to find a Korean tutor to help me learn the basics before I head out. That should be fun.
Want to learn how to turn a sphere inside out without poking a hole through the middle?
Here is the longer, 21-minute version titled "Outside In."
I've been obsessing over this for the past week or so. Maya says I may have a problem.
More interesting geometry:
It gets you thinking about what, exactly, is the difference between "inside" and "outside" if there are no distinct areas represented in one object.
How to make one:
In other news, I had two interviews today. They went pretty well, minus a comment in one interview that I was "excited to teach Korea in English." Mon dieu.
I had my interview yesterday. I think it went terrific. My company will contact me with job listings (and offers) within the next few weeks. Exciting times.
In other news, some people believe the Earth is growing.
Most physicists agree that the 4th dimension is time. But if you could think of the 4th dimension as some sort of physical thing, you could imagine it as at every possible instant in time that we 3d beings exist.
Interesting stuff.
I've decided to reject the contract from Indonesia. I haven't heard from them in a week, and I've got to get moving. I can't keep waiting around.
I have an interview with a recruiter tomorrow at 2:30. It's a Canadian company that specializes in placing native English speakers in public schools in Korea. Another Canadian company is interviewing me on Wednesday.
I've applied to 2 of the big companies (I think they call these hagwons), and received a reply from the 1st one. The only problem I have with the big companies is the poor vacation time. One company doesn't give any paid vacation time...scary, in my opinion. You can't work people to death.
I wish I was in Korea right now, just so I could see what life would be like. If I could somehow cross through the 4th dimension, I would be able to travel to the future to my in-Korea self. Impossible, but still. :)
I hijacked Kay's blog because she's really busy studying for exams and she's hardly got any time to sit down and write! Things have been very interesting as of late...check out my blog entry for what's happening with Kay as far as Indonesia is concerned.
Also, she's gotten about four or five phone calls and contacts from recruiters in Korea, and she is extremely excited to begin the process for employment Korea. She has her first phone interview for Korea tomorrow around 8pm I believe.
As you already know, I'm 100% behind her in her decision to go to either Korea or Indonesia (as long as I get the portable DVD player in the end, lol)!
So, wish her luck on her interview tomorrow and keep your fingers crossed!
I had my interview last night. It went fine, there were no curveballs, but at the end of the interview, the director told me that there would be a possibility that I might not be asked to contract with the school.
The problem is: before I applied, they extended contracts to two other teachers. The teachers, however, haven't gotten back to the school, so now I have to wait to see what happens with those other teachers. If they get back to the school, I'll be out of a job. If they don't, I'll have the job. Interesting...
But no worries: I'm applying to more schools in Medan. I don't think it should be a problem. The worst case scenario is that I'll be in a different location (perhaps Jakarta or Papua?) and I'll have to visit Maya every two weeks or something like that, which isn't a problem. It would be nice to be with Maya, though it's not like we haven't been apart for long periods of time.
The phone interview is on Thursday and, although I'm nervous, I have comfort knowing Maya already went through the process and it turned out fine for her.
I went for a run yesterday, and started thinking about how my life will change in Indonesia. I'm nervous about that, too.
