June 17, 2007
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Under Pressure!
So The Used aren’t friends with My Chemical Romance anymore, since they got all popular an’ stuff! I hate it when bands I love fight… You used to be such good friends guys… It’s like my parents’ marriage…
Anyway, relaxing as it’s been being home with no school and no job (and sadly no money either…) the pressure cooker has just been turned up to lava-hot again… And we all know how I feel about lava… In light of my financially challenged status of present I’ve been searching for summer work, but not wishing to sit around and wait on a JET upgrade all summer I’ve put in a few applications with some other English-teacher-type workplaces in Japan too. One being Interac, the company that Jeremy will be working for! They e-mailed me yesterday to offer me an interview… this Wednesday! Holy flurcking shnit! They really don’t hang around, huh? The interview is gonna be an hour long, 5 minutes of which involves an introduction in Japanese (which has me breaking out the dictionaries and textbooks for the first time since the final exam) and a short “class” exercise where I have to teach imaginary 5-11 year olds about numbers, colours or days of the week! I opted for colours and have a bunch of ideas rolling around but nerves, pressure, stress.. my head ASPLODE!!! (Picture scene at the beginning and end of Total Recall where Arnie and the Latino chick are on the Mars surface…
) Much thanks goes out to Jeremy who has been providing me with experienced advice via Facebook and Rob who briefed me on general ALT procedure via a skype-to-landline phone call yesterday!
And this couldn’t be better timed as our results are due out end of this week! All results will be posted on the department noticeboard at Uni on Friday and arriving in the post the next day. This sure is fun…
“So pardon me while I burst into flames…”
Comments (10)
good luck with it. Try not to explode. You will do much better if you relax.
That is a speedy response! Good luck with the interview, and hopefully you’ll be heading out to Japan to form another piece in the ever-growing NUFS puzzle…
Also, we clearly can’t stop bands from fighting with each other…. unless we are a band ourselves, so Dead Man’s Clique obviously has to come into existence as musical peacekeepers (album name?). We can right the wrongs. But sure as hell not with the power of heart!
Go for it, Dave! Go!!!! Show them how great Nufs kids are
I’m sure that all will go well, and things will turn out just as they should be whatever happens:). I believe in you!!
oh yeah! that would be pretty cool, dave! i think if you lived here, you and bryant would probably be really good friends.
i am praying for you and your interview. i hope you enjoy cramming for your interview. i do the same thing when i go for an interview. i read up on lots of stuff related to the job and get fired up to make a good impression. i go on those interview websites and look at interview questions and type out answers to all of them and study my answers so i don’t waste words since i tend to ramble.
Cool!
Hope you get news from that soon!
And, uh, do not forget to ask them to send you smack in the middle of Hokkaido so I can actually get to see you from time to time!
Thats a great response isn’t it? It probably means that they are eager for new teachers (not saying the interview will be easy of course, but at least they will appreciate you). I’m sure you will do well. Also, do you have a choice of locations? Do they have outlets throughout Japan or only a select area? What is the likelihood you will be posted in Nagoya?? ^_^ good luck!!
Oo, good luck! At least you don’t have to sit around forever waiting on these guys, right? (Knock on wood).
Pretending to teach 5 – 11 year olds, eh? Be perky and cheerful! Ever considered wearing pastels?
Or entertaining the chil’uns with a sock puppet? (that’s English teaching at its best)
so you get your grades posted today, right? awesomeness. i’ll keep an eye out for that post. not sure how i missed this one… oh yeah, xanga was being weird for a couple days. hmmm, anyway, yarrrrr GANBANBE!