Unemployed

Ok. So now that I'm done with the TEFL course I have shit to do. Mostly I've been wandering around Prague to kill time, but there is the occasional trip to the park to play frisbee. Sure, I've been applying for jobs, writing resumes and lessons, but mostly I just laze around. I had an interview last week and I fucking nailed it. They asked me to bring with me a prepared, 90 minute lesson which I spent an hour making that morning. During the interview they gave me a topic and asked me to come up with a lesson on the spot. I came up with three. They were like "Whoa. Ok. You know, we don't need to see your prepared lesson. Do you want the job?" They pay lower than I'd like and the benefits aren't great but it's work. I have two interviews next week and hopefully I'll be working part time for at least two schools. Problem is, schools don't start back up till early to mid September so I have all of August to kill.

I've posted some pictures on the link to the right. It's only really a BBQ that we had two weeks ago and a few shots I've taken while wandering around the city. I'll get more up soon I promise. Take care

Bad Grammar

Hey. I haven't posted in a while because I've been insanely busy with the TEFL course. Between that, finding an apartment, looking for jobs, getting drunk on the weekends and hanging out at the park I just haven't found the time.

That will soon change. I just wrote six pages about English grammar and in turing that in, I completed my TEFL course. I'm done. No more mock interviews, no more workshops, and no more classes where I have to force my students to hit each other with inflatable bats or make a forced Titanic refference just to please my instructor. Tomorrow we have a Czech lesson in the morning and then we get our grades and TEFL certificates. On Sunday we are kicked out of our apartments and I'll be moving to my new apartment just six blocks away. It was getting down to the wire and I thought I might end up living in a park for a few days, but I found a guy who was moving back to the states and needed someone to take his lease.

And now that the course is over, and now that the prospect of homelessness no longer looms large, I have to find a job. I guess everyone is on vacation now and it's hard to find work. I'll be subing and teaching private students (note to self: find private students) throughout August but I don't think it will be tough to find work when the quarter starts in September. So August will be spent lesson planning, searching for jobs and exploring Prague. I hope to have pictures up as soon as I get on that tourist kick and actually unpack my camera.

But for today. I am heading up to a pub that was a memberrs only club during the Communist era. They've kept everything the way it was back then, huge oak tables, elk heads on the wall, and party slogans and banners galore. The prices are dirt cheap and the beer is the best I've had in the city. God it's great to be in a country that makes it's own beer instead of vodka...