A lot actually. Given that I haven’t updated in such a long time, I can safely say that I have been upto a lot.
First up. I got a job. *waiting for the applause*
It’s in a place called Ajuba, which is basically a billing office, about which I’m not going to bother explaining. I’ve done it many times already and that includes talking for about 5 to 10 minutes about the Insurance policies and options in the states and I’ve done my share of explaining.
Now onto the place. The people are fun, seriously. Given that 80% of the crowd are in their early 20’s its easy to mix with the crowd barring the occasional nerd or exceptionally orthodox girl (who happens to sit right next to my cabin). But that’s all right. Its fun giving her the occasional heart attack every twenty minutes with some jibe. Its only the start of the job anyway. So I end up finishing most of what I need to do for the day in about an hour at the max and end up roaming around, listening to music (good ones!) and the best part about it is that given that am only a fresher and new to the job and all, they’re really nice to me. =)
Anyway, that’s the job. Now the reason why I got the job. Simple. To while away the time till September. I’m going to France for a year. To be an English teacher. Cool huh? I’ve been selected into Dijon, only I don’t know which school as yet. Its all good. My tickets are being paid for, from Chennai to Delhi (stay in Delhi for a 3 day conference), Delhi to Paris and Paris to Dijon. To apply for this programme I had to write the IELTS which was the most boring 3 hours of my life. I also had to go through some interview rounds with my Directeur at the Alliance Francaise (Karl Cogard) and the Student Counsellor. He tested my French and she tested my English. That wasn’t easy. Given that they wanted only the capable people to go there to avoid incidents later on, they were tougher than usual. I also had to do a little presentation to Karl during which I had to show him how I’d teach kids and teenagers English. I chose a text on the different languages in India and spoke endlessly about the richness of a country’s culture portrayed in linguistics. I spoke about the grammar and vocabulary differences that I’d focus on with each crowd. I spoke about how I’d asses their skills first and then base my course for the day on it. One question came my way. “If you get selected for teaching the teenagers how would you manage supervising a class where the majority is older than you?” “err…umm….”. Does anyone really know the answer to that? Well I managed something that sounded remotely convincing anyway. So now months later I’ve been chosen to go to France to teach teenagers without an inkling as to how to do it.
I went to Bangalore last weekend and a rock show yesterday. The trip was fun, got to meet Sammy after a long time. There was a place there called Garuda Mall where they take a photo of yours and put it up on a coffee mug. Pretty cool eh? The concert yesterday was pretty cool too. Only the sound system was a little messed up for many people to handle. But the bands that I got to see were really good. Yay for me!
Other than that life's been good. Concerts here and there, done with college (not missing a single soul from there either =P), work's good, meeting friends and fun, fun, fun all around. So all in all, Life's Good. =)
First up. I got a job. *waiting for the applause*
It’s in a place called Ajuba, which is basically a billing office, about which I’m not going to bother explaining. I’ve done it many times already and that includes talking for about 5 to 10 minutes about the Insurance policies and options in the states and I’ve done my share of explaining.
Now onto the place. The people are fun, seriously. Given that 80% of the crowd are in their early 20’s its easy to mix with the crowd barring the occasional nerd or exceptionally orthodox girl (who happens to sit right next to my cabin). But that’s all right. Its fun giving her the occasional heart attack every twenty minutes with some jibe. Its only the start of the job anyway. So I end up finishing most of what I need to do for the day in about an hour at the max and end up roaming around, listening to music (good ones!) and the best part about it is that given that am only a fresher and new to the job and all, they’re really nice to me. =)
Anyway, that’s the job. Now the reason why I got the job. Simple. To while away the time till September. I’m going to France for a year. To be an English teacher. Cool huh? I’ve been selected into Dijon, only I don’t know which school as yet. Its all good. My tickets are being paid for, from Chennai to Delhi (stay in Delhi for a 3 day conference), Delhi to Paris and Paris to Dijon. To apply for this programme I had to write the IELTS which was the most boring 3 hours of my life. I also had to go through some interview rounds with my Directeur at the Alliance Francaise (Karl Cogard) and the Student Counsellor. He tested my French and she tested my English. That wasn’t easy. Given that they wanted only the capable people to go there to avoid incidents later on, they were tougher than usual. I also had to do a little presentation to Karl during which I had to show him how I’d teach kids and teenagers English. I chose a text on the different languages in India and spoke endlessly about the richness of a country’s culture portrayed in linguistics. I spoke about the grammar and vocabulary differences that I’d focus on with each crowd. I spoke about how I’d asses their skills first and then base my course for the day on it. One question came my way. “If you get selected for teaching the teenagers how would you manage supervising a class where the majority is older than you?” “err…umm….”. Does anyone really know the answer to that? Well I managed something that sounded remotely convincing anyway. So now months later I’ve been chosen to go to France to teach teenagers without an inkling as to how to do it.
I went to Bangalore last weekend and a rock show yesterday. The trip was fun, got to meet Sammy after a long time. There was a place there called Garuda Mall where they take a photo of yours and put it up on a coffee mug. Pretty cool eh? The concert yesterday was pretty cool too. Only the sound system was a little messed up for many people to handle. But the bands that I got to see were really good. Yay for me!
Other than that life's been good. Concerts here and there, done with college (not missing a single soul from there either =P), work's good, meeting friends and fun, fun, fun all around. So all in all, Life's Good. =)
