A Ramble through Smilie Land

SO I wanted to share my amzing day ( yesterday) Friday 14th of August 2009 is defiantly a day for the record books, of good days. Now excuse me a sec while I ensure I don’t jinx myself Thank You ThankYOU Thank YOU. Anyway back on topic, It was the last day of the kids activities ecvents that I have been doing for the last 3 weeks and I had every intention of going out with a bang. Also I was in the local newspaper fro the last session and the paper is a weekly that comes out on a Thursday so it started off good. The session went BRILLIANTLY 8 kids, we made madgical glittery ‘invisable’ hats made a deal with a genie, snuck through Giant Spider’s Cave and went on a treasure hunt thrugh The Hidden Castle Cave and basically saved the da and restored order to te universe. I come home, fairly tierd but still in a good place.

Fast forwad 4 hours I am thinking about oing to bed when my sister shouts i have a phone call I am thinking maybe its someone about a job interview, it turns out its work and they have had a email in from HR saying that there is a librarian job going in the Educational library service, if anyone wants to apply. Less than 2 minutes later I get an email from Axcis recruitment saying- well actually before I get to that, there are a few things I may need to explain.

Axcis is a recruitment agency that specialised in educational and school support staff for international schools ( and local ones but the important bit is the international) back in early May or June I saw a job in an international school in Egypt and I applied ( you might rembere I got people to proof read my email to Victor?) the response was no most schools require significant experience in a school setting. So I kind of forgot about them and started plotting a how I will get school library experience plan . Now back yesterday , I get an email entitled Librarian Post Tokyo Japan and I don’t see the email address because its a gmail account and the guy who emailed me wasn’t the victor of last time and I am thinking huh? Wow spam has got clever but it cant hurt to look maybe someone I know has forwaded it to me. And I open it and well lets say I started screaming and jumping up and down . Anyway this is what it read italics is me as per the usual .Oh and I realised who it was from as soon as I saw the formatting.

Dear __
hope you're well. Been a while since we've chatted — A smilie face I think in an official email I think I love this person already!! so my colleagues and I aren't sure if you're still available but just in case- lots more irrelevant stuff here like the details we have a librarian post in an international school in Tokyo Japan, if you are available and/or willing to concider it please let me know. YES YES YES YES YES , and OMG they came to me! ME!!! With that crappy cv from before I passed this is AMAZING!!!

A thing I have to point out is my family has a history with Japan, my dad go a scholarship to go and ended up spending 7 years their ( this was his scholarship and 7 years in Sweden) and he is always gong on about how much he loved it their and had the best time in his life etc etc

Thus began alot of jumping about and cheering unfortunately for some people my mum is away and her phone wa out of service so I decided to bug them brilliant news instead. I’d say sorry but I am really not! Anyway upshot of it is my new and improved updated CV has been sent to the school in Tokyo and we are awaiting their opinions.
And then less than an hour later I get ANOTHER from someone esle going guess what we have MORE jobs.

I swear somedays it seems when you smile at the universe i smiles at you nad starts handing you pressies!


SO WOOOHOOOO , now does anyone know anything about living in Japan? And more imprortantly does anyone have any idea how long this might take before I get a reply back?