Another day......

What an EXCITING but TOUGH day..................!

For those of you who know me, the following information may be a bore but, for those of you who don't, I'll outline the last few months....!

Since being in Singapore I have been teaching in a Kindergarten............this age group CERTAINLY wasn't my future BUT I decided ENGLISH LANGUAGE may well be.....

As such...............in between looking after my family, being a social butterfly and just about any other consideration you can make, I decided I should go back to school and STUDY! I am proud to say I have had a fruitful time over the last few months. My labours resulting in a distinction pass for the Cambridge Institute Diploma for Teachers and Trainers and a distinction pass grading for my TESOL................

Time to put this newly found knowledge in to practice and apply for suitable "positions"....TODAY I had probably the hardest "second interview" of my life! The first "introduction interview" was a breeze, yet today I was faced with 25 non English speaking Chinese/Korean/Japanese/Vietnamese students ALL expecting my miracle direction as a second interview............! Well, a miracle DID happen......despite sleep deprivation over the last 48 hours, for the worry of it all (and the planning of course!) I managed to slide myself ahead of the competitors (whoeever they may have been!) and WIN! The job was offered to me this evening! IELTS is now Internationally used in many areas - obviously in English schooling but also through Government Immigration Departments who now have introduced English standardisation tests before the "green cards" are issued, so I'm pretty proud of myself right now!!

Sorry this posting was very "exciting"! (and more importantly perhaps the ENGLISH IS A DISGRACE! I hope my students don't ever log in ;-)....)

Hope whatever you have achieved today is half as rewarding as what I have............

"I guess life deals so many hands - its how you play them that counts?!?!?!?"