guess what?

i applied for a job yesterday! and today they called me, and i have an interview on friday! this organization has nine (9) openings for the same position, so i think i can reasonably feel pretty confident.

the organization is: portland camp fire (part of camp fire USA). they do after school programming for local schools. i would be developing curriculum and teaching/supervising volunteer teachers? and stuff like that. it would only be 20/week and $11 an hour so i would definitely also have to get another job.

there is this other job called "curriculum developer" that seems awesome, you come up with activity ideas for classrooms and it seems like you work in a fun team with fun young people. perhaps i could do that part time.

dunno.

for whatever reason the field of education is very appealing to me right now. mostly because it is the complete opposite of what i am currently doing. 1) constantly surrounded by people 2) the people you are constantly surrounded by are very demanding 3) get attached to people 4) busy busy busy 5) cute nice people 6) working on a team 7) up and about.

all sounds excellent!

also important is that it is a 9-month position. so the idea would be that i would spend time during this 9-months really seriously looking at my options abroad, with a vague plan to leave portland in summer or fall of 2008. exxxxcellent.

i'm feeling upbeat about it! also even if i don't get this job i will start taking more seriously the idea of applying for other jobs. my job is just unacceptable. unacceptable.

[img: walking into a bright new future]



i'm taking friday off! i was just going to take off the afternoon for the interview but i was like, WHAT THE HEY!!