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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!