Well it's been a long time, yet again.

I really don't know how I'm going to do the writing a post every day kinda thing, if I do end up going overseas. But I did promise to keep up communication, if I did. And it's starting to seem pretty likely that I'm heading over in a few months.

Basically my plan is to find as much work as possible while over seas, which I know won't be much. But hey, it will be something to supplement my travel allowance.  So the first thing I looked into was teaching English, unfortunatly I don't think I will be that great of teacher. One I don't have a degree of any sorts and no experience at teaching. Due to these facts I thought it would be at least important I get some experience under my belt, and easiest way to do that would be; an internship.

The internship itself is pretty horrid from what I can tell, pay a little over 2K to do a rushed course so that you can be shipped over to China and be support teacher for 4.5 months. It kinda reminds me of my first job, as a bartender/gaming attendant. Everyone treated me like some alien and heaped all their responsibilities on the new kid and stuck her with the 12.5 hr shits until 5:30AM. But I'm hoping that 5 or so months of experience will at least give me a fighting chance against all those Uni graduates, when I apply for more jobs afterwards. At the moment I have nearly finished my course and then they will put me through to the school that i will possibly work with. Fingers crossed, its not dodgy like I've read in all the travel forums.

If the whole teaching in China thing works out I am hoping I can continue it in Japan work my way over to London and do bartending over there. I have also been looking up other jobs such as au pair in other countries but still unsure about living with a host family for a couple of months; seems abit odd to me. I am heading off for the China thing next month, nearly finished my course cant wait to get in touch with the school but my interviewer seems a little suss, seriously how can you can trust someone called Pinkie Chan? Not a very professional screen name is it? But my agency seems professional at least the travel forums say its trustworthy anyway.

So I'm trying to be positive for once, and hope for the best.

Signed,
Julie Cortez