I guess I have not been writing as much as before, things are busy and not at the same time. The last couple days as I have been getting over my culture shock the pace of things has started to pick up. So the big updates...
I bought a car. 2001 Volkswagon Jetta GLS 5sp blah blah blah, white, seems to be in pretty good shape and drives well. Still working through the first full tank of gas to find out what kind of mileage it will actually get with the traffic and what not, but its been fun so far. Had to go and out get one of those ipod to radio thingys because the radio here kinda sucks, but other than that it hasnt needed anything. Going to clean it out and go over the whole thing in detail over the next couple of days.
I have a job interview scheduled now at the Outreach College, an intensive English training program attached to the University of Hawaii, it looks like it is aimed at helping incoming UH students who do not meet the English standard and go through a 10 week course. It was nice because yesterday I called to let them know I am here and update my phone number while getting osme info about the process. They said that interviews start next week or two but they would not be letting people know if they were picked for the first round or not in case they did not get any hits in the first round they did not want people to know they were the second choice. But then today I got an email for an interview next Friday, so thats nice. That job also had the first closing date of the 4 or 5 that i applied for at UH so hopefullly there will be others coming up soon as well.
Tonight I have a one on one assessment at an MMA gym that has several amatuer and pro fighters working out there so I am looking forward to getting some real feedback on how I stack up. the thai trainers were great, but it was hard to really take seriously what they were saying. Some were great, but others just wanted to get a foreigner in the ring for the payday and in that short a time with the language troubles it was hard to work out who was who.
Now that I have an idea of where I want to work out and where I might be working, as well as how small this island really is, I think i will restart the housing hunt. Need to get into something either way nicer or way cheaper but what im paying now is just not going to work. at least with the amount of stuff that i have, living out of the car would be pretty easy.
Oh I have also started putting up flyers to see if I can track down chinese students who would either want my help editing their papers or with their english or acting as Chinese tutor for me. But I was thwarted by my lack of a staple gun when I hit campus bulletin boards, so I am going to arm up and prepare to return in force. who knows what that might yeild but it would be nice to find something part time to stop the money hemoraging out at the horrific pace that America seems to require. Spent more in a week that 3 months in Asia, guess the car kinda affects that...
I bought a car. 2001 Volkswagon Jetta GLS 5sp blah blah blah, white, seems to be in pretty good shape and drives well. Still working through the first full tank of gas to find out what kind of mileage it will actually get with the traffic and what not, but its been fun so far. Had to go and out get one of those ipod to radio thingys because the radio here kinda sucks, but other than that it hasnt needed anything. Going to clean it out and go over the whole thing in detail over the next couple of days.
I have a job interview scheduled now at the Outreach College, an intensive English training program attached to the University of Hawaii, it looks like it is aimed at helping incoming UH students who do not meet the English standard and go through a 10 week course. It was nice because yesterday I called to let them know I am here and update my phone number while getting osme info about the process. They said that interviews start next week or two but they would not be letting people know if they were picked for the first round or not in case they did not get any hits in the first round they did not want people to know they were the second choice. But then today I got an email for an interview next Friday, so thats nice. That job also had the first closing date of the 4 or 5 that i applied for at UH so hopefullly there will be others coming up soon as well.
Tonight I have a one on one assessment at an MMA gym that has several amatuer and pro fighters working out there so I am looking forward to getting some real feedback on how I stack up. the thai trainers were great, but it was hard to really take seriously what they were saying. Some were great, but others just wanted to get a foreigner in the ring for the payday and in that short a time with the language troubles it was hard to work out who was who.
Now that I have an idea of where I want to work out and where I might be working, as well as how small this island really is, I think i will restart the housing hunt. Need to get into something either way nicer or way cheaper but what im paying now is just not going to work. at least with the amount of stuff that i have, living out of the car would be pretty easy.
Oh I have also started putting up flyers to see if I can track down chinese students who would either want my help editing their papers or with their english or acting as Chinese tutor for me. But I was thwarted by my lack of a staple gun when I hit campus bulletin boards, so I am going to arm up and prepare to return in force. who knows what that might yeild but it would be nice to find something part time to stop the money hemoraging out at the horrific pace that America seems to require. Spent more in a week that 3 months in Asia, guess the car kinda affects that...
"who knows what that might yeild" haha :)
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