Monday, March 8, 2010 at 5:50pm | Edit Note | Delete
(1) There was just an earthquake a minute ago in Taichung-that's where i live. I don't know how much it was on the Richter scale but there sure has been quite a lot of them lately in Taiwan. I'm always going to carry a pillow around at home from now. Except when I shower of course.
(2) From approximately 3 PM to 4 PM, I walked around the neighboring streets to send out resumes personally since no one is actually hiring English teachers right now. I sent out seven today and there are four more schools I have to work on in the next few days... Someone actually did a little interview on me on the spot and I turned red, my face was burning and I suddenly couldn't utter full Chinese sentences anymore... gosh... what a great way to leave a good first impression. Turns out that she just hired a new teacher very recently but is willing to give me a chance when she needs a substitute. And she's VERY happy that I only asked for NT$400 an hour (that's roughly about $12 US dollars) as compared to the average NT$500~$600 for a normal, not famous English teacher. Well, what can I do? I dooooooo need to save up for college plus I'd be happy to get a job at all since I'm just running around with a high school diploma. NT$400 is a LOT more than the minimum wage of NT$95 that most high school and many college graduates get in Taiwan. I must also mention that my brother's new job at the restaurant across the street takes advantage of him and only pays him NT$85 an hour AND does not give him ANY worker's insurance. That's illegal!
(3) There's this American school in Taiwan called Morrison and it's real close to where I am currently living. I KNOW there are Americans living in my community (which consists of two 16 floor apartments) and everyone in the family except me and my grandma have seen/ met them. And grandma barely ever leaves to house so she doesn't count. WHY? How come I've never seen them? Well, apparently I did walk pass one of them and thought it was a Chinese who died his hair blonde...that's what my sister told me when we got home, that she saw an American while I saw a Chinese...
And then there is supposedly this rude girl who's my age who lives on the 6th floor (we live on the 15th)...once again, i've never had the chance to meet them...it's almost always my brother or sister. What's up with that? I'm just grumbling...
(4) I woke up this morning at 4:10 AM and attempted to go back to sleep; I couldn't because I ended up lying there for 30 minutes imaging my uncle tapping on my shoulder at the cemetery. In broad daylight of course, you can never pay me enough to get me to go the cemetery at night.
(5) Somehow I feel defeated already and don't think anyone will actually call me back after seeing my resume. ><>
(2) From approximately 3 PM to 4 PM, I walked around the neighboring streets to send out resumes personally since no one is actually hiring English teachers right now. I sent out seven today and there are four more schools I have to work on in the next few days... Someone actually did a little interview on me on the spot and I turned red, my face was burning and I suddenly couldn't utter full Chinese sentences anymore... gosh... what a great way to leave a good first impression. Turns out that she just hired a new teacher very recently but is willing to give me a chance when she needs a substitute. And she's VERY happy that I only asked for NT$400 an hour (that's roughly about $12 US dollars) as compared to the average NT$500~$600 for a normal, not famous English teacher. Well, what can I do? I dooooooo need to save up for college plus I'd be happy to get a job at all since I'm just running around with a high school diploma. NT$400 is a LOT more than the minimum wage of NT$95 that most high school and many college graduates get in Taiwan. I must also mention that my brother's new job at the restaurant across the street takes advantage of him and only pays him NT$85 an hour AND does not give him ANY worker's insurance. That's illegal!
(3) There's this American school in Taiwan called Morrison and it's real close to where I am currently living. I KNOW there are Americans living in my community (which consists of two 16 floor apartments) and everyone in the family except me and my grandma have seen/ met them. And grandma barely ever leaves to house so she doesn't count. WHY? How come I've never seen them? Well, apparently I did walk pass one of them and thought it was a Chinese who died his hair blonde...that's what my sister told me when we got home, that she saw an American while I saw a Chinese...
And then there is supposedly this rude girl who's my age who lives on the 6th floor (we live on the 15th)...once again, i've never had the chance to meet them...it's almost always my brother or sister. What's up with that? I'm just grumbling...
(4) I woke up this morning at 4:10 AM and attempted to go back to sleep; I couldn't because I ended up lying there for 30 minutes imaging my uncle tapping on my shoulder at the cemetery. In broad daylight of course, you can never pay me enough to get me to go the cemetery at night.
(5) Somehow I feel defeated already and don't think anyone will actually call me back after seeing my resume. ><>
