I have had quite an exciting few days.
It started Monday morning when my phone buzzed during class. The signal reaches my room at the most inconvenient times.... When I was free of students, I checked my messages and found one from a principal at one of the schools in my core search area. While I have been religiously checking job postings, I was suprised to find they had an opening because nothing had been posted as of the Friday before. It turns out they had a full time position created by combining two partial positions at 2 campuses. So I called back and was sad to inform him that I couldn't make it up north until after May 1 at the earliest. So I emailed a schedule of times I was available for a phone interview and we set it for today. I found later on that evening that they had officially posted the job, but it was cool to be called BEFOREhand! I'm also glad I had mailed in my application to the district already.
Conveniently enough, I received my temporary "Exchange License" to teach. I would receive a full, regular license after taking two classes and paying the license fee, again of course. So that was nice information to have before my interview. I also did some research and found that I could take both the classes this summer in one week sessions--hoping that the one is approved as valid without having to officially take the university credit that is partnered with the area education agency. It's cheaper to not take the graduate credit...and I am not sure if I would have to go through the whole "admission and enrollment" thing or not since it's just the one class with the partnered agency. I'm working on trying to get this clarified. I also received an email from another school for a phone interview.
Now the last two weeks I have been religiously checking flight prices and not getting much hope. Flights were running at least $500 and that was if I drove 2 hours to DFW and then had Josh drive an hour to pick me up.
So today I had my phone interview. I really liked talking to the principals--they had senses of humor but didn't seem....disinterested... either. It seemed to go pretty well and I felt decent about most of my answers. I liked what they had to say about their schools (and the campus commute thing shouldn't be too much of an issue from my research online). It'd force me to stay organized! One would hope at least. They seemed very interested in me as a strong candidate, but they really couldn't make an offer without a in person visit or something to let them see me "in action". I could either make a video of me teaching, or I could fly up and visit. Well, I'd been planning on the visit anyways and I wasn't sure how easily I could swing setting up a decent video. So I talked to the peoples (like my principal here) about taking off 2 days in May after The Test and decided to check flight prices one last time. Lo and behold, I found a ticket--one stop (the normal DFW layover) between here and CR for under $400!!!! with a perfect flight schedule that would let me only miss the two days of school and make the most of my time there!
I am having strong visions of a giant arrow pointing me to this school, but I have at least 3 weeks before I'll make any decision IF officially offered a job. So please continue to keep this whole process in prayer and that I'm guided to where God wants me.
and also continue to keep my cousin and family in prayer, and also my younger bro who has been experiencing daily palpitations--it sounds like premature heart beats and he has only experienced lightheadedness once or twice, but the dr saw some definite oddities on the initial EKG and they want to know more about it if it's happening so frequently.
Also keep in prayers a friend of mine who just experienced a miscarriage at 10 weeks. She has one little boy.
Posted by Anna at April 16, 2008 07:42 PM | TrackBack