Back to three
So I have three jobs again.
Anna Maria e-mailed me asking me if I could teach Japanese again, because Hiroko has to return to Japan for family reasons. Although I’m glad to be teaching those classes again, the cirucumstances are obviously less than desirable. Hiroko is extremely nice, so I sincerely hope that everything is okay.
I started my CV and I’ve been actively looking for jobs to apply for. There’s a good number that are seemingly looking for applicants, so I hope I can find something that works for me. There are two right now that look right up my alley, one wants candiditates who have experience in working with and preferably in teaching music and the other is looking for a Speech / ESL specialist, which my education at University specialized in, so that’s great too. I love linguistics (even though I don’t talk about it much, I truly find it fascinating) so that one sounds really great too. I don’t know if I’m quite qualified enough for what they’re looking for, but everyone keeps saying that it doesn’t hurt to apply. If they say no, they say no. At least I can’t say I didn’t try.
I also wrote Jackie asking her for advice and some guidance about my certificate, and I got a contact address for the gentleman in charge of the ESL program in the area so I can contact him to observe a few adult classes (I need some observation hours in a different location for my certificate).
So yes… I did all this yesterday, haha. So I feel like I’ve done a lot in the past twenty-four hours or so. I still have to work on my CV… and I’m anxious about it for some reason. I’ve never applied for a job before, so it feels like this huge ordeal. I also have no idea what to do for a cover letter, but I guess I should finish the CV first and work on the cover letters as I make my way through sending applications and whatnot.
But yay for teaching Saturday classes again! Most of the kids are different, because a lot of my kids from last year are in high school now (which officially makes me feel old) so they can’t attend any longer. The only thing is I have no idea where they left off, and I feel bad e-mailing Hiroko now, becuase I’m sure this is the last thing on her mind.
The only downside, of course, is having to be there at like 9:00am ~_~ That makes me wish it was like the OCOM and right around the corner from my house… but alas, it’s in Niagara Falls. Same school and classroom as before (I filled in one day for Hiroko at the end of last year). But it’s that school that I drove past like, four times when I was trying to find it the first time I taught there. -_- It’s behind a church, so it’s really hard to see from the main road and I swear there’s no sign.
Now that I say I hate being up early on Saturdays, it is kind of nice because a) I can get a breakfast sandwhich on my way and b) it’s nice to be up and moving early, so that you have the rest of the day ahead of you.
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