Good news

[estepheia]

Just had the job interview for the second course. A course description was agreed upon. No one actually said 'congratulations, you're hired', we just gradually moved away from the conditional clauses... until only one remained:if enough students sign up for the course, I will be teaching TWO courses from October onwards. Yippieh! Money! Teaching experience. References that will look good on my cv. Yihaaa. Keep your fingers crossed that enough people sign up. The good thing is that I can run both courses based on the same lesson plan, with only few variation. Meaning I do the prep work once and reap the benefits twice. Yes!
The lady who interviewed me, a native speaker, said that they normally don't hire non-native speakers. My spoken English is so rusty these days, I feel like I need another three weeks in an English speaking country to get my bearings again. *sigh* But apparently my English is still good enough for the job. Or maybe my unabashed enthusiasm won the day. *breathes sigh of relief*
I intend to do all the exercises I set myself. If only to see how much work it truly is. :-) So I won't completely neglect my own writing. *looks determined*

Comments

[trepkos.livejournal.com]

Your English seems pretty damn fine to me!

[estepheia.livejournal.com]

Thank you, dear. But you haven't heard me speak. I sound really weird, with some Britishisms and some American pronounciations... and a German accent that is unfortunately quite noticable these days. It used to be more subtle when I was still living in England, but these days I don't talk in English enough...

:-)