Great News! Kate and I have both secured jobs with Joyland! We have been communicating with our boss Tina and she is helping us find accommodation for the first couple of weeks once we get to Taipei. We will begin looking for our own apartment as soon as we get there.
We have bought our plane tickets!!! We are leaving on September 2nd in the evening. We arrive in Taipei on September 4th. It's odd, but we don't really get a September 3rd, 2008. A couple of my friends were joking saying that they're going to have a September 3rd party and that I'll have to miss out entirely...
So many preparations are coming together now... because they have to! there's less than a month left before we're gone. Kate's already got most of her immunizations done. I had my first appointment today. We've got a travel doctor from Mississauga who's given us the 411 on what we need to do to protect ourselves before we move and once we're there. Unfortunately... it's very pricey to do this! The immunizations include: Japanese Encephalitis, Hep A/Typhoid, Meningitis and Whooping Cough/Tetanus. We also have prescriptions for Malaria pills, jet lag pills, sleeping pills and immodium-type pills. Soooo many drugs!
This coming week Kate and I are going to the Taiwanese Embassy in Toronto to get our visas. After that we are meeting with Allison (our cousin who went to Taiwan and taught for a number of years for the same employer) to ask her our millions of questions. We've been trying to get as much information as possible from our boss Tina, but the language barrier has so far proven difficult, albeit funny. Kate emailed asking about a dress code as we're wondering what to pack. Tina emailed back saying something along the lines of, "I don't understand about the 'dress code.' Do you mean the age range of the children?"
Thus, meeting with Allison will answer more questions at a faster, more coherent pace. I'm excited to hear more of her stories, I'm sure it will pump us up even more than we already are.
As this blog now indicates, I've arrived at a clever title! As those who travel by plane know, each international airport in the world has a three-letter code. Toronto (Pearson) is YYZ and Taipei International Airport is TPE. When you put it together it means: "from Toronto to Taipei to teach English." Neat eh!? nerdy...
Until next time, "keep fit and have fun!"
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4 comments:
ok there Body Break!
I was gonna say that Mark! Hal Johnson and Johanne McCloud. I would have went with a different name, something like Big Trouble in Little Taiwan...lol
Also YYZ is a Kick ass RUSH song!
my brother informed me of the rush song. so we've got multiple meanings going on :)
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