The Jet Interview - being myself

Here I am, in the evening (or night) right before the JET interview and I am totally nervous!

Today was rather cool where I met a couple of colleagues to play badminton over lunch. After work, I went to Snip Avenue, the very affordable hair salon to cut my hair in preparation for a passport-photograph taking but I waited a whopping 2 hours! Now I must remember to book it like weeks in advance! I had wanted to give up waiting and visit Storm instead but they were not open, oh no!

I had to rush for a Toastmasters executive committee meeting after that, and then rush home for lo hei. Lo hei is rather Singaporean, and hey I can talk about it in the interview tomorrow if it rises! There are different kinds of vegetables such as radish and carrot. These vegetables are chopped into fine pieces and after laying them out nicely on the plate, we proceed to pour sweet sauce over the vegetables. Here is where the fun starts! All of us gather around the table and use our chopsticks to toss the vegetables, saying auspicious words like 'fa da cai!'. We also try to lift our chopsticks as high as we can.

I hope that is a simplistic explanation enough, gosh!

I realise after talking to AD today about tomorrow's interview that I have seem to misplace the exuberance and motivation of what it means to be an educator.

It is so nice to see my old pictures of my trip to Australia, especially remembering very cultural elements such as
- Ipswich Day;pigs race;farm produce;
- Roma Street Rally
- Beach volleyball, gold coast

I think I am one step closer to being ready.

Kitto umakuyatte ikeru.