Well it's been more than a month now and yesterday I had my first day of work post-Hess. Pretty weird to teach somewhere else after 6 years of Step Ahead and Hess hippos. Shane was quite different from what I'm used to and having the freedom to take my 10 minute break when I ever I wanted was strange. The kids were pretty cool if a little more standoffish than I'm used to, but overall it was good to be back in front of the whiteboard. It certainly didn't help that I was accidentally told to prepare the wrong lesson, so I had to teach my first class after over a month of vacation off the cuff. Not what I had in mind but I guess it went well enough because the manager offered me a job when I left.
For other work, I've got a couple tutoring jobs lined up that I'm keen to get started on, especially the one near Dong Hai where I get to tutor the president of a synthetic rubber company and his sales team.
It's also looking like the first week of November will be my last in Taiwan and this grand adventure will finally come to a close. There'll be a big post for that when it gets closer, along with a big party I'm sure.
Recently I've had a few people ask me for some movie recommendations so I thought I'd put something up about the movies I've smashed through in between job applications over the last few weeks. Click on any image to pull them up in Lightbox and mouse-over for my comments. Agree with my star rating? Disagree? Leave me a comment!
