China
I am leaning more towards going to China now. I just talked with Oriana, the woman who interviewed me on Sunday. She said my housing would be comfortable and I would live by myself in a place that has all the basic furniture provided. I will have a work visa provided for me and they will deal with all the paperwork. I would be working mainly as a consultant, and I would have 25-50 students to work with; I would be basically helping them prepare to go to colleges and universities in the United States. I would recommend universities to them, find out what the application processes involve, etc. Additionally, I would teach a small class of SAT English and tutor ESL. I have never had any job similar to the consultant job, so I don't know how great I will be at it, but since they will provide training beforehand, and there will be four of us total that would go to Beijing from the US to do this job, I feel like maybe I can make friends with the other three and we can help each other out.
Now. I have to decide whether I'm going to do this for *sure* very soon. Like, this week. Oriana needs me to let her know ASAP so they can start paperwork and whatnot, and I also am wanting to make a decision before I hear back from TechKnowHow, so I don't have to delay in letting them know whether I want to take that job.
I am leaning more towards going to China, for all the obvious reasons... and I have also been thinking it would probably look better on my resumé, and when I come back, I could probably get a job at TechKnowHow next year.
I will have to talk to Rudy tonight. I'm going to see him, so we can talk in person. I just hope that he is at least willing to try to stay together for a year of me being gone. It can't be impossible, and so many things in our relationship have *not* gone the way other relationships of mine have gone (meaning, things have been a lot better), so why should I be too scared of losing him? I think it will be hard, but at least we'd have Skype and we can mail each other things and whatnot. A year will probably go by faster than we think.
Anyway, if any of you have any advice or info you'd like to share with me about moving to Beijing, let me know.
ETA: I forgot to mention that I was actually offered the position on the phone today. So it is officially up to me to decide whether to go to China or stay here.
Now. I have to decide whether I'm going to do this for *sure* very soon. Like, this week. Oriana needs me to let her know ASAP so they can start paperwork and whatnot, and I also am wanting to make a decision before I hear back from TechKnowHow, so I don't have to delay in letting them know whether I want to take that job.
I am leaning more towards going to China, for all the obvious reasons... and I have also been thinking it would probably look better on my resumé, and when I come back, I could probably get a job at TechKnowHow next year.
I will have to talk to Rudy tonight. I'm going to see him, so we can talk in person. I just hope that he is at least willing to try to stay together for a year of me being gone. It can't be impossible, and so many things in our relationship have *not* gone the way other relationships of mine have gone (meaning, things have been a lot better), so why should I be too scared of losing him? I think it will be hard, but at least we'd have Skype and we can mail each other things and whatnot. A year will probably go by faster than we think.
Anyway, if any of you have any advice or info you'd like to share with me about moving to Beijing, let me know.
ETA: I forgot to mention that I was actually offered the position on the phone today. So it is officially up to me to decide whether to go to China or stay here.