From this:
To this:
How's your flag knowledge?
From the 'bloody' lands to the 'bloody' skies, we have signed on to a new stint and we won't have to even buy a new national flag to celebrate, we'll just flip our Polish flag and, voila!, we're in Indonesia!
We just returned from Thailand after a 2 week trip that was half leisure, half job searching at the ISS international teachers' job fair. The first week we spent south of Hua Hin at Dolphin Bay Resort. The place is advertised as 'family friendly' and they're not joking. A fantastic place to take kids with a wide variety of things to do at the resort and at nearby national parks, elephant farms and islands to visit. It's only 200 km south of Bangkok, so it wasn't an exotic, white sands, turquoise waters locale, but it was at the right price and traveling distance for us, especially after flying 14+ hours from Warsaw/Paris to BKK. Hopefully I'll add some photos soon.
Jill had a strong lead with the Indonesian school before the fair began, but it wasn't a sure thing. So we continued our research while trying to 'relax' at the resort with spotty net service and picked our top ten or so schools. In reality, there were only 4 or 5 schools we were happy with, as we are more picky now given our family situation and really wanted to get to a place with more outdoor opportunities than Kielbasa town has.
The list came down to Kobe, Japan, Myanmar, Bangkok, Uzbekistan, India, Malaysia, Chile and Switzerland. The latter two were high on our personal 'dream' list but the reality of getting a post there with two dependents was very slim. But it never hurts to try!
So, anyhoo, the fair was stressful but we were rather quickly offered the job in Indonesia. It was a full family interview, so we can now add 'First Interview' to Iza's pre-1st birthday accomplishments. She, of course, spoke (babbled) highly of herself and her worldly and wise parents, and she, on command, flirted with the director. Good girl, Iza!
BTW, I always forget to inform those whom don't see us often that we pronounce her short name, "EE-zah". Most letter 'i's in European languages have the English long 'E' sound. So she has a Polish spelling with Polish pronunciation of her name. Though we did add a second 'l' to her first name to give a nod to Italy (where the name 'Isabella' comes from). The Poles only use one 'l'. Where there's two, they tend to pronounce both 'l's separately. It's amusing to hear them say 'Madonna'. They don't do this anymore, but it was common when new names reached the country in print.
So, the clock is ticking and we will be leaving this fine country around mid-June, heading back to the states for a few quick weeks and we'll be in Indonesia by August 1, 2008.
It's going to be a crazy year.
Again.
We just returned from Thailand after a 2 week trip that was half leisure, half job searching at the ISS international teachers' job fair. The first week we spent south of Hua Hin at Dolphin Bay Resort. The place is advertised as 'family friendly' and they're not joking. A fantastic place to take kids with a wide variety of things to do at the resort and at nearby national parks, elephant farms and islands to visit. It's only 200 km south of Bangkok, so it wasn't an exotic, white sands, turquoise waters locale, but it was at the right price and traveling distance for us, especially after flying 14+ hours from Warsaw/Paris to BKK. Hopefully I'll add some photos soon.
Jill had a strong lead with the Indonesian school before the fair began, but it wasn't a sure thing. So we continued our research while trying to 'relax' at the resort with spotty net service and picked our top ten or so schools. In reality, there were only 4 or 5 schools we were happy with, as we are more picky now given our family situation and really wanted to get to a place with more outdoor opportunities than Kielbasa town has.
The list came down to Kobe, Japan, Myanmar, Bangkok, Uzbekistan, India, Malaysia, Chile and Switzerland. The latter two were high on our personal 'dream' list but the reality of getting a post there with two dependents was very slim. But it never hurts to try!
So, anyhoo, the fair was stressful but we were rather quickly offered the job in Indonesia. It was a full family interview, so we can now add 'First Interview' to Iza's pre-1st birthday accomplishments. She, of course, spoke (babbled) highly of herself and her worldly and wise parents, and she, on command, flirted with the director. Good girl, Iza!
BTW, I always forget to inform those whom don't see us often that we pronounce her short name, "EE-zah". Most letter 'i's in European languages have the English long 'E' sound. So she has a Polish spelling with Polish pronunciation of her name. Though we did add a second 'l' to her first name to give a nod to Italy (where the name 'Isabella' comes from). The Poles only use one 'l'. Where there's two, they tend to pronounce both 'l's separately. It's amusing to hear them say 'Madonna'. They don't do this anymore, but it was common when new names reached the country in print.
So, the clock is ticking and we will be leaving this fine country around mid-June, heading back to the states for a few quick weeks and we'll be in Indonesia by August 1, 2008.
It's going to be a crazy year.
Again.
