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Jim
Saturday, February 28, 2009
Saturday, 2 Wins and Getting Organized
I am currently coaching the Kanata Cavaliers Midget Girls Competitive basketball team and lo and behold, we won both our games in Brockville this morning. We played at TISS and it was cool to see the tribute paid to Stacey Dales, the best basketball player ever to come out of Eastern Ontario and play in the NBA and star for Canada. She was a personal wrecking crew for my St. Pius X high school teams in the early nineties.
When I arrived back from Brockville it was time to start putting together our package for our visas. Of course we needed to get new passports as ours were going to expire while we were over in Malasia. We needed copies of our Ontario Teacher Record Cards, university transcripts, 8 passport sized photos, letters from our doctors stating we are in good health, a current police check, and a statement of marital status. Speaking of health we started our shots on Tuesday. We only needed tetanus, Hep A and Hep B. You do have to start 3 months ahead of time so keep that in mind if you are planning to visit.
Shelley is starting to think about her retirement party. I may just have a meatball sandwich at the Prescott. Shelley thinks I should have my little celebration in the gym at either Pius or Mother Teresa seeing as I spent most of my teaching career in them. Decisions, decisions, think I will procrastinate.
Jim
Jim
When I arrived back from Brockville it was time to start putting together our package for our visas. Of course we needed to get new passports as ours were going to expire while we were over in Malasia. We needed copies of our Ontario Teacher Record Cards, university transcripts, 8 passport sized photos, letters from our doctors stating we are in good health, a current police check, and a statement of marital status. Speaking of health we started our shots on Tuesday. We only needed tetanus, Hep A and Hep B. You do have to start 3 months ahead of time so keep that in mind if you are planning to visit.
Shelley is starting to think about her retirement party. I may just have a meatball sandwich at the Prescott. Shelley thinks I should have my little celebration in the gym at either Pius or Mother Teresa seeing as I spent most of my teaching career in them. Decisions, decisions, think I will procrastinate.
Jim
Jim
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Teaching What Where?
Shelley and I will be teaching what is basically a qualifying year for Malaysian high school graduates who hope to study abroad, mainly in North America. The students enrol for 2 semesters, taking three courses each semester and graduate with an OSSD (Ontario Secondary School Diploma). This diploma gets them into universities such as Harvard, McGill, University of Toronto, Carleton, etc.
I will be teaching 2 sections of Computer and Information Science and 1 section of Mathematics of data Management. Shelley has 3 sections of Challenge and Change in Society.
We are teaching at Taylor's University College, main campus in Subang Jaya, in Selangor which I think is a suburb of Kuala Lumpur. The daily temperature in Kuala Lumpur is 29 degrees everday. That is the good news. The bad news is that it rains every day, although not for very long. We shall see :-)
Jim
I will be teaching 2 sections of Computer and Information Science and 1 section of Mathematics of data Management. Shelley has 3 sections of Challenge and Change in Society.
We are teaching at Taylor's University College, main campus in Subang Jaya, in Selangor which I think is a suburb of Kuala Lumpur. The daily temperature in Kuala Lumpur is 29 degrees everday. That is the good news. The bad news is that it rains every day, although not for very long. We shall see :-)
Jim
TORF
This little adventure of ours (Shelley and Jim) starts at TORF. TORF stands for Teaching Overseas Recruiting Fair and happens in annually in February at the Queens University Faculty of Education. It's basically a place for international school administrators and aspiring overseas teachers to get together.
My first observation was the administrators are mostly old and the teachers are mostly young Of course Shelley and I were the exception and no, we are not young administrators. The ratio of administrators to teachers was about 100 to 350.
The fair lasted Friday - Sunday and Shelley and I had a job offer that seemed like a good fit by Saturday morning. We did not accept the offer until Sunday morning as we had to check with our kids (Jaime - 22 and Jordan - 19) to make sure they were okay with Mom and Dad abandoning them. They have both been away to university for 5 and 2 years so it was a moot point and they rejoiced at having the opportunity to visit Asia next Christmas break.
We are going to Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia to teach Computer Science and Social Science. We leave behind very good jobs at the Ottawa Catholic School Board (Coordinator of Learning Technologies (Jim) and Arts Consultant (Shelley). We have always embraced change and have only regretted the things we haven't done, not the things we have!
Jim
My first observation was the administrators are mostly old and the teachers are mostly young Of course Shelley and I were the exception and no, we are not young administrators. The ratio of administrators to teachers was about 100 to 350.
The fair lasted Friday - Sunday and Shelley and I had a job offer that seemed like a good fit by Saturday morning. We did not accept the offer until Sunday morning as we had to check with our kids (Jaime - 22 and Jordan - 19) to make sure they were okay with Mom and Dad abandoning them. They have both been away to university for 5 and 2 years so it was a moot point and they rejoiced at having the opportunity to visit Asia next Christmas break.
We are going to Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia to teach Computer Science and Social Science. We leave behind very good jobs at the Ottawa Catholic School Board (Coordinator of Learning Technologies (Jim) and Arts Consultant (Shelley). We have always embraced change and have only regretted the things we haven't done, not the things we have!
Jim
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