Step One
Welcome to Qu China! (For some help here, qu (去) means 'going to' - now go back and read it again.)
They say the first step is the hardest - whomever 'they' happens to be. Yet, this first step wasn't that difficult at all. Quite frankly, I think it was probably the easiest part of the whole process. I received an email from Career China asking if I had any interest in a teaching position abroad and I didn't really know that I had replied (in all honesty, I was at Ben and Nikki's house and it was very late at night).
Turns out that I did reply - and two days later, I had an interview date set up, had a fingerprint card in the mail, my teaching license submitted, and my old Alma Mater filling out paperwork.
Tonight I had my first Skype interview. Tomorrow I have another with a different company. It feels to be flying, but I know that after the initial excitement, everything will die down for a while. In a few weeks I'll be starting my TEFL (pronounced teh-ful - Teaching English as a Foreign Language) class that will add a certification to my education degree. The class lasts 11-13 weeks and I'll be able to complete it while working full time!
So obviously I'm not confident about any of this. I've been here before - excited about a chance to travel abroad and brush up my foreign language skills. But last time, a simple typo kept me stateside. However, this isn't going to stop me from trying. At this point, six whole people know my dirty little secret - and that's not even including my dog!
Here's to the future (and to finally getting to use my multiple language keyboards again)!
去中国欢迎你!
They say the first step is the hardest - whomever 'they' happens to be. Yet, this first step wasn't that difficult at all. Quite frankly, I think it was probably the easiest part of the whole process. I received an email from Career China asking if I had any interest in a teaching position abroad and I didn't really know that I had replied (in all honesty, I was at Ben and Nikki's house and it was very late at night).
Turns out that I did reply - and two days later, I had an interview date set up, had a fingerprint card in the mail, my teaching license submitted, and my old Alma Mater filling out paperwork.
Tonight I had my first Skype interview. Tomorrow I have another with a different company. It feels to be flying, but I know that after the initial excitement, everything will die down for a while. In a few weeks I'll be starting my TEFL (pronounced teh-ful - Teaching English as a Foreign Language) class that will add a certification to my education degree. The class lasts 11-13 weeks and I'll be able to complete it while working full time!
So obviously I'm not confident about any of this. I've been here before - excited about a chance to travel abroad and brush up my foreign language skills. But last time, a simple typo kept me stateside. However, this isn't going to stop me from trying. At this point, six whole people know my dirty little secret - and that's not even including my dog!
Here's to the future (and to finally getting to use my multiple language keyboards again)!
去中国欢迎你!
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