beggars can be choosers

I started my new job last week on thursday. it was a fairly long commute, but thanks to my friend and roomie i found it easily. of course i got there way too early, so i took a little walk around the block and then made my way to the school, although its not really a school its a playgroup site? location? i'm not really sure what to call it. I beat my trainer there and had to wait for a while. and what do you know, my trainer was from sweeden and prior to teaching was a model. . .cool.

instead of just job shadowing i taught part of the first class of the day. it went ok, not great, but ok. the classes are very small, 6-8 students, and last an hour and a half. so if the students were older than 2 years they would come in the class alone, and if they were under they come in the class with a parent or caregiver. the youngest students were 8 months old. seriously, how do you teach an 8 month old?? i was not loving that. i just don't take to babies, i like kids when they grow a personality, otherwise what's the point.

so i tried to give the job a fair chance, and keep an open mind, but after my second day i just knew this was not the job for me. and i'm not desolate, so i went ahead and quit. not the most responsible decision, moving to a foreign country without a job, then finding one, and then quitting it after 2 days. i just don't know if i'm built to work a full time job, haha, just jokes, i'm sure i can as long as its not a horrible unrewarding job that i have to be at on saturday AND sunday, hello, what about my social life!!!

luckily, i have two awesome roommates who were more than supportive and after i sent an email of resignation friday they helped me look for some jobs. i applied for quite a few, and the next day got a couple calls and a couple emails back. right now i've got two interviews lined up, one for friday and one for monday, so all is not lost. . .hopefully :)

I'M EMPLOYED!!!

seriously, this was awesome! i applied for ONE job, heard back the next day, to set up a skype interview for tuesday, had to provide 2 references, they said they would get back to me by friday, i had a second skype interview wednesday and they offered me the job!!!! HOW CAN GETTING A JOB IN HONG KONG BE WAY LESS PAINFUL THAT FINDING ONE IN AMERICA!! i don't know, but i'm happy!!

so its with real little kids, 8months-6years, from what i understand they provide all the curriculum, so i just have to follow it, and make a few props along the way. It should be a lot of singing, reading books, and "messy play" hahaha. 30 teaching hours a week, at 18,000 HKD/month, about 2,300 USD, and then i am eligible for raises after the training period. It seems pretty good, and i'm so super excited!

my only problem is i happened to look at my passport and realized i only have three blank pages left, i'm really worried that isn't enough, but i just noticed it today and i don't think i can get extra pages before i leave. . .so i guess i'll just hope for the best and see how it all works out.

Swap Germany for Hong Kong

Without sounding too bitter (hopefully) my boyfriend recently jettisoned me. This is after six years, not all great, but pretty good. I was there through his army deployment (hello, red flag! I'm an educated forward thinking woman what was I thinking hooking up with some army dude), through him almost getting kicked out of the army (mind you, you have to be pretty bad for the army to want to kick you out, they take prisoners for god's sake), I left my job in Korea early and broke contract, losing thousands of dollars, so I could get back to America and spend time with him before he got his new duty station. But that was all fine, I loved him and he loved me. . .only not really, i guess.

So, his new duty station was in Germany and the plan was for him to go and me stay in America until after the holidays and then for me to join him. Well, in early December he dis-invited me, among the reasons were my BMI needed to be lower and I needed to have a five year plan. Then in my last ditch effort to smooth things over I got the "I don't love myself so how can I love you." Really?! Thanks for the adult talkie talk bullshit.

Did I mention I had quit my job, mind you, it was a shitty part-time job, but at least I was doing something and making some money, but I had quit in anticipation of Germany and was just living with my parents, and while my parents are really great, that's just not the best scenario for a 28 year old. So after getting the boot I spoke to some of my friends that I had met in Korea and were now teaching in Hong Kong. As luck would have it, they were living in a three bedroom apartment, my two friends and brother brad, not my brother, my friend has a brother named brad also, and brad was moving out after the holidays. Done! My ticket was booked by the next week.