If I had a dime for everytime someone asked me that question I could retire this week and skip the next eight weeks. The question comes in many variations. How many sleeps? How many days? The word is certainly out there. I probably had something to do with that. I can't seem to shut up about it. Perhaps mentally, I still need to convince myself of the reality of the situation.
I sense Nonie is struggling with the reality as well. She has invested almost twenty years into her career and has developed a great professional reputation. While she will continue to teach and will be liking starting over. It is not easy to walk away. But I give her a year and she will be at the top of her game.
We have sent out our first offer for employment to a school in Harbin. I have been watching the school for a year now as well as had some e-mails from a previous employee who still lives in Harbin but operates his own school. Sometime in January he seemed to fall of the face of the earth. His blog site has had no new posts and there have been no responses to any e-mails. So he will not be any help with our search in Harbin.
My research seems to indicate the school has a good reputation for treating their teachers respectfully. It has been a week and we have not received a response from them. Time to start looking at our next option. Our age will be a detriment to us until we get some experience under our belts but once we have a track record it will get much easier.
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