Interview..

The interview was fun- aside from the sour note introduced by a tricky grammar test. The conversation flowed swimmingly, in fact it seemed to devolve into comfortable chatter covering Welsh language learning, British bilingualism, Bengali cuisine, knitting (of course), comparing HSBC sari/ turban uniforms to Roman racial tolerance, and other sundry topics. She said their school wouldn't ever allow hijab or race to be a sticking point or issue which was reassuring.

On the other hand it seems like quite an upmarket school handling mostly corporate, govermental clients and many of them stipulate that they want teachers who are at least 25 years old and have 5 years experience. They're bigwigs who don't want to be taught be a wide-eyed naif who may get burned out or homesick halfway through the course. But she seemed to feel I had potential I think or she wouldn't have spent so long explaining their courses and system- we were talking for 1 1/2 hours. They send their teachers out to different sites- a few hours with one business then across the city to another maybe. She'll let me know roughlyhow much work might be available for me if any.

I think part time hours with a good school would be more valuable than 40 hours in some cowboy sweatshop school. Although I'm attending one such school downstairs as a student, and though the space is sweatshop like and the methodology very ad hoc- not much lesson plan, just going through conjucations and random words so far, I think she's just a local uni student- the atmosphere is friendly and low pressure. The students really appreciate their teacher's efforts to help them understand and don't demand more than that really.