Interview finished, awaiting contact

I had my interview last night, I think it went pretty well. I spoke to the principal, Ms. Kim, and to someone else named Ellie, I forget what her title is though. They both sounded very nice and pleasant, but they were both concerned about my ability to control the kindergarten students in the class I'll be taking over. Apparently the current teacher has asked to transfer to another position and part of the reason is stress due to the kids' high level of activity. I told them I'm not concerned in the least about being able to control them, or keeping up with them. I just hope they can keep up with me, haha! Especially on my new diet (that's for you, Nick).

If I get the position I should be able to contact the current teacher and get lots of extra information from him about how the kids are and where he feels he failed and succeeded. That'll be awesome. Plus I can maybe find out what Ms. Kim most wants from her teachers and try to do that without her asking. And I'll be able to find out about the quality of the apartments, where they're located, how the other teachers are, etc. I may know as early as tonight, but more likely it'll be sometime this week.

Interview pending, still waiting

I have an interview Sunday night at 9:30 with the principal of YBM. I don't want to do an interview on Easter, nor do I want to do one that late since I'll be waking up at about 5am to work at McDonald's (more on McD's later). But I want to get that interview in asap, and that's the time they suggested. As for paperwork, I just got my degree apostilled, still waiting on my CBC to come back. Once I get it I'll have all the requisite paperwork for a visa. I'm hoping it'll come in the mail next week, and I'll know by Monday or Tuesday if I got the job, then I can send them all my stuff to get a visa, and I'll know when I'll be leaving. Being in limbo is weird and a little difficult. I'm not very focused on what's going on here, and I'm too preoccupied with moving to Korea. For instance, I was just googling about living in Korea. I've lived there before, I know what to expect, I'm clearly wasting my fleeting moments here and dreaming about being there already. When I do finally move, I'll be dreaming about America and wasting my fleeting moments in Korea.

I've finally given up on getting full-time hours at YAP. I dropped all but one 10-hour client, and I've been working at McDonald's 30 hours/week. I started there on the 4th. I really am enjoying working at McD's, it's not difficult work, I'm not responsible for the wellbeing of others, and I'm getting paid more than minimum wage and could work 40 hours/week if I wanted. The management there is quick to correct you, which is ok except I'll do something right 99 times, then the 100th time I'll do it incorrect because there is something more important to do, and I'll get corrected for that but not praised for the 99 times. Or, I'll do it correct always, and they don't see it but assume I need correcting, so they will. Oh well, it's a job, and I'm happy to be doing it. I've also found that by serving others, even by getting paid to serve others, and doing it with a joyful heart, I'm drawing closer to God. I'm more humble and loving towards my family and friends, and I find praying to be much easier. I must remember this lesson.

If I get the teaching job in Korea and I start on June 1st, they'll probably have me training May 30-31. Hopefully they'll fly me out there the Friday before on the 27th, but if not then I'm going to request it so I can have more days to adjust to the time difference. That means I'll need to stop working at both of my jobs around May 13th so I can have the last 2 weeks in America to visit everyone in Charleston and Myrtle Beach, and it looks like I'll have to visit my dad in Missouri because he can't fly out here at the moment. 2 weeks will have to be enough time to do all that, plus prepare everything I need for Korea. I'm not worried, just very excited, but anxious just the same to be leaving my friends and family again.

My prophecies coming true!

For the extremely large amount of readers I have (sarcasm), you may remember back on April 22, 2009, I had a post about my predictions for the cell phone future. In it I said a bunch of crazy things, and one of those is coming true. Here's what I said:

For those of you who don't know what Electronic Ink is, it's a screen that isn't backlight like your normal monitor. Backlit screens are bad for your eyes. Instead, e-ink is used for reading, primarily, or displaying a single image for extended periods of time. The technology doesn't need to maintain the display or image, it just flips the pixels from white to black and they'll stay. Therefore, it consumes very little battery (look up e-ink if my description isn't good, or isn't enough for you).

Now here's the article from the eBook Reader Blog that says it's coming true. Here's the relevant part of the article:

Pixel Qi displays are similar to regular LCD displays like a computer’s screen but are more energy efficient because the backlight can be adjusted and turned off to save on power. In this mode ambient light is used to illuminate the display, making it readable in bright lighting environments.

WAHOO!!