Life continued

Alright, so I have decided that perhaps I will give this blogging thing a bit more of a go, an entry a week maybe, who knows.

As for my JET interview on Thursday, I think it went well, I was told to write a two minute introduction in preparation for the interview, which I left until Wednesday night, and it was stressful trying to get it done (kind of reminded me a little of oral com, but I did it and didn't have to use it, but it still helped in my interview as I was able to throw in bits and pieces of it here and there.

I was so nervous as I sat in the waiting room, I almost felt like throwing up. Waiting there, I decided I would go over my intro a few more times to calm me down but before I could even get through it twice I was called into the interview room. I had heard rumours that many times the interviewers can be cruel. saying you wrote things on your application that you didn't write and asking you about them trying to see if you would slip up and think that you had actually written them. (to see how well you actually know what you wrote). I also was told that they would ask awkward questions to see how you deal with stress. things like "what would you do if one of your fellow teachers groped you, what if it was the principal?". Luckily I was not asked any of these questions.

instead I was asked questions like, "what do you think will be most difficult getting used to in Japan", "how would you deal with the language barrier", How do you handle conflict", fairly standard interview questions.

I won't find out until april if I am going forsure, but until then I have many many papers and exams to keep me busy. As well as my practicum two which is going quite well but will soon step up a notch as I will have to teach two classes per week one of these being a group of twenty students. :S

hopefully it will all go well!

~ Justin Goodman