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The Job Hunt Continues...

SO, it has now been OVER a year since I received my bilingual multiple subject teaching credential. So far...NO jobs. Even though I've been applying to over 30 schools everywhere from LA to San Bernadino to Laguna Niguel...nothing yet.

I've interviewed at several places:
- El Sol Academy in Santa Ana for middle school English
- Canyon Lake Middle School in Lake Elsinore for math/science
- Grace Classical Academy (a private school) in Laguna Niguel for 4th grade

It's somewhat frustrating/discouraging but at the same time I'm thankful that God is closing doors where he doesn't want me. In the last year, I have gotten some great subbing experience including long-term subbing in 4th grade and 5th grade.

I have been encouraged by the fact that I got hired to teach for South Pasadena Educational Foundation for the summer. I got to write my own course curriculum and am teaching Spanish Language and Culture to incoming 5th-8th graders. I'm going to use food, music, dance and art to help the students get a good grasp about Spanish speaking cultures. :o) Hopefully I'll inspire them!

I'm going to start hand-delivering my resume, letter of intent, letters of rec packets to schools that I'm interested in...even though I know they aren't hiring at all. It's worth a shot! I just pray that God opens the door to what His will is for me. :o) I'm excited to see where He leads me!!!

Peace and Love.

Wonderful Day

Today was a great day spent relaxing with my husband, mom and dad. It all began waking up at 6am in the morning to go to my parents' house and load up the big box truck with my old bed and armoire. I finally sold it and now my old room at my parents is ALL cleared out! :o) Only a month over the deadline.

Then Forrest and I met up with mom, dad, grandpa and Kiki at good ol' Starbucks (Sorry Jorden...we don't have Caribou Coffee). It was so nice sitting in the warm sun, chatting away. God is GOOD!

When we got home...I actually got some scrapbooking done. I finished our honeymoon scrapbook and now I'm moving on to our Brazil pics. :o) Lastly, we walked over to Citrus City Grill with the padres and had a delicious meal (and lots of leftovers). When we got back to our apartment, we had dessert: cookies and candy that look like dog food. We tried eating it without our hands...a lil' difficult but we did it!

It was a wonderful, blessed day!

Official!

So after a many long days behind my computer, typing away at my TPA's (the papers required in order to get your teaching credential), I finished them and turned them in February 13th. It was so nice to have the two 30 page papers done with. I didn't hear if I had passed them for over 5 weeks. After hearing back that I had passed both TPA's and my credential application was approved by the state, I now have my multiple subject bilingual teaching credential! :o) Wow! I thought this day would never come.



It feels so weird to be official. Now my days are filled with searching for available teaching job positions. There aren't too many out there. I'm constantly on EdJoin (where job positions are posted) and I'm looking at a couple positions at biligual schools. Unfortunately, the jobs are nowhere near Orange. There's bilingual schools hiring in El Cajon, Long Beach, and L.A. Wish me luck!