Ok, so I'm now faced with another huge decision that needs to be made soon. I have been offered a new job with a private school. I think I mentioned in a post before, but I did a fake lesson plan, and they liked it and said I could have the job. The job pays more...more hours, about 24 a week. Not only that, but I'll be the only teacher, no Chinese teacher. I will work for about 7 families, who provide me all the materials I need, and the classroom. I will have to make my own curriculum, which will be much more challenging. At this point though, the challenge seems exciting. I'm really leaning towards this new job, but am scared of how this will all fall through. Like with my VISA and ARC. I know I have this month to decide if I want to leave without having to pay the $600 fee for breaking the contract. But in this month if I decide to quit, it says that I have to go back home. I can't stay in Taiwan, but I'm not sure what that means. Like do I just need to make a VISA run out of the country for a day? Then go through the VISA prcoess again? I'm just not sure how to do this. I keep asking people and I keep hearing different stories about what to do..like be honest...or to just lye to them, and just say I'm going home. If I do that I will just have to fly to the Philipenes for like one day and then fly back. But I wonder if there is a way to do this without having to leave the country? Argh...I'm thinking of emailing the guy in charge at HESS and telling him the situation....maybe he'll feel bad for me..haha. I don't know. Tomorrow I meet with the woman again at the new school and were going to discuss in further detail, the job and exactly what it will entail. So I'll have more information about it later.
The other thing I'm worried about taking this new job is my social network. There are no other teachers so I hope that I'll still be able to meet people. I've discussed this with everyone I work with at HESS and they all understand, and have been understanding. Except Simone...ha..she really wants me to stay at HESS because she has an invested interest in me. Her kindergarten is too huge so they are going to split it mid-september, and give me half for about 7 more hours, but even with that I'll only be getting 19 hours a week. Anyway, what do you all think? I know mom and dad think I should take the new job, but it's such a terrifying thought messing with the big HESS corporation, what if they just squash me and take me for all I"m worth?!! hahaha..ok ok....maybe i'm overreacting. Anyway I have to get going, I'm going to check out the Chinese classes right now and see how pricey they are. Miss you all! I hope the flooding has gone down and that things are back to normal.
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