Becky's first entry

I just wanted to write a quick post because things are starting to get quite exciting. We woke up early this morning to have another "interview" with the school in Jeonju. This time Alan got to talk, in fact he got to talk to about five people. One of them made him guess her accent... um, Korean? (nope, Australian apparently). Alan's convinced (maybe rightly) that relieved at the fact that they were getting a chance to speak to the man, they offered us the job! Hooray! and seemed to expect an immediate answer. However Alan did tell them that he should probably discuss it with me first. Thanks "Alan you are a very nice man"

So, fingers crossed, Jeonju it is.



On a slightly different note; me and Alan have been doing lots of research and thought it might be nice to experience something rather than just reading about it. So when we went to London last week we decided to visit a Korean shop. The idea was to buy some Korean food (particularly Kimchi) and prepare our pallets, however things didn't really go as planned. The shop was bright and colourful and completely overwhelming! There were some tasty looking things, including green tea cheesecake, but we couldn't understand any of the packaging, so unsure of what was raw, cooked or edible, we left empty handed and slightly dazed.

Alan's First Blog.

Ok! So this is blogging. I'm blogging. On my blog. Our blog. Sorry Becky.
Right, so I guess the first blog should be explaining where we are now and why we don't know what's going on really. We've been registered with an independent Canadian recruitment agency run by a nice man called Dan for a few months now. He worked in Korea teaching English for a while so we're hoping he'll be able to find us something we'll like. So far we've had 3 interviews for 3 different schools. Well, I say we, but really Becky's had three, I've had one. Becky answered the phone on our first and third interviews and the interviewers (if they can be so-called) didn't want to speak to me! I'm hoping this is because they've already decided they want me to go, but they need to make sure Becky is up to the task. She's not.
Anyway, so far the jobs we've been offered have been with start dates in July or the start of August, which is a bit early for us. Also we want a big apartment so we can have lots of guests. We don't want to live in Seoul, but aren't too bothered where else we go. Looks quite likely we'll be going to Jeonju at the moment, but this may change!
Right. I'm going to bed now as we may have a 7.30am interview with Sean, the Jeonju school chappy. Fun!

Alan