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Day 3 of London: Saturday was my extremely long day of schmoozing, being aggressive to get an interview, more researching, interviewing, waiting, pacing, listening to school’s presentations and if I remembered I ate! As I went into the job fair last year I really just wanted to stay in Europe, however, I didn’t have the PYP training (a popular type of curriculum used in many international schools) and therefore I really didn’t have an opportunity to get a job let alone an interview! So with my year off this year, I took the PYP class online and had some great interviews at PYP and non-PYP schools.


I interviewed with the International School of the Sacred Heart of Japan, Dubai American Academy, the American School of The Hague, Lyford Cay International School in the Bahamas, and the Canadian International School of Singapore. All places I was willing to live and schools I had done research upon. At this time I have not heard back from the Sacred Heart School or the Hague.



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 I am excited to announce that I have accepted a job as an elementary school teacher at the Canadian International School of Singapore!!!! I am so happy – Singapore was top on my list to move to! The school is huge about 2000 students on 3 different campuses. However the campus I will be working on Toh Tuck Campus will be moving to a new campus on Halloween of this year as will another campus. The school’s website is www.cis.edu.sg .

At this time I was hired to teach grade 2, but the head of the school knows I will be able and willing to teach any grade preschool-grade 4. CIS is a PYP school and a truly international school with children from 70 different nations. Native children from Singapore are not allowed to attend the international schools so they are truly international schools. 

I am busily checking out the calendar schedule (Oct15-30 off; Dec17-Jan9 off; March31-April15 off) so start planning! And that is just the first year – this is a two year contract. Checking out the culture and history of Singapore. Oh so excited!!!!! And the official language is ENGLISH!

Happy New Year to you and me! - London Trip....

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!




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Okay, yes I am a little late on the postings but it has been a busy 2011 of researching, preparing and  interviewing for international jobs for this coming school year. I attended the same job recruitment fair as I did last year in London, UK. However this year my friend from Maryland Chris joined me there for a mini vacation as well. We arrived on Thursday morning successfully met in the airport and travelled to downtown London together to our hotel; a great bed and breakfast in the Marble Arch area (Hart House Hotel). We basically stuck around that area on Thursday. Friday we went to the Tower of London which I had never been to before and spent a good 4 hours touring around there. It was a beautiful day, for London in January!

Saturday and Sunday – see Job Fair blog.

Fortunately for Chris, Sunday’s night dinner at Gordon Ramsey’s Claridges restaurant was one of celebration. It was a fantastic six course dinner.

On the London Eye

Monday, we headed down to the other side of the Thames River to ride the London Eye. Again we had pretty good weather and no lines. We could see so much of London from our high advantage points – 30 minutes was definitely enough time on it. Chris and I seemed to tackle the criss-crossing of paths of the tube. Though I did feel like we were little rats going from one platform to the next as the walkways/tunnels had low ceilings – it felt like a rat in a maze! Monday evening we went and saw Wicked. We had great seats in the balcony. I loved the costumes and the set and the story line (I had read the book but the theme of the story was nice to hear again. I just wasn’t too keen on the songs – there was only one song I recognized but all the others didn’t really have a catchy beat to them that you would want to tap your foot to or sing along.

I had a "Wicked" good time!

Tuesday morning took the taxi to the airport and we both had smooth, uneventful rides home! And we both went right off to work!