How long did you dick around after college? Where did you find work?

[Kahlo]

Pretty sure that employing albinos is ticking some kind of diversity box.

[peabody]

Originally Posted by RopeyLopey

so what is your opinion of Albania? What did you like/did not like? What do you think of Albanians? Was it better/worse than what you had expected? What surprised you the most about the country? Would you recommend people to go to visit the place?

Albania was a great place for me to live, all things considered. It is beautiful, warm, sunny (not in the winter though...although it is warm, it's just cloudy and rainy). I was in Tirana, the capital city, and it's a clusterfuck. But it's pretty small and incredibly safe (except when there are protests where civilians are killed...like a few weeks ago)...as a decently-paid person living in the city, I was able to have a fairly nice apartment and able to eat out and "go out" often. Albanian people are eager to chat and it's easy to make friends. My favorite thing to do was to walk around the ring road of the whole city...it would only take about an hour. Some silly things like electricity and internet were not always working, but that's not really a big deal, to me.

I was surprised how many people spoke English. It made learning Albanian tough, because no one would speak it with me. But that's typical of lots of English-learning countries. Sadly, I left before I really got into Albanian.

I would absolutely recommend visiting Albania. I have lots of favorite places and things to see, and I will for sure go back in the next few years. Balkans!!!!

[Trotskilicious]

Originally Posted by ATS

i read that your average american college student has never had to write a 20 page paper and spends like 3 hours a week studying

http://www.usatoday.com/news/educati...ing18_ST_N.htm

yeah i never wrote a 20 pager, my senior thesis was 15. I think they should be word count rather than pages since you can fuck around with fonts and squeeze out more for less work. And yeah, even when I was doing really well in school I didn't spend all that much time studying, I went to class most of the time and highlighted a chapter or two that helped. I knew and still know a fair amount of students that will shut their entire life down to go to school and they tend to be the ones that are successful after college but I just couldn't do that. But then again, I really didn't have to, more often than not I would just not really even apply myself at all and get a C and at the time I had this screwed up mindset that said that that's better than working just a little bit to get an A.

[Toby]

hey alex, what happened with getting me a job?

[peabody]

your criminal record is not clear, dude. it's so dumb.

[Toby]

I'm not a criminal

[Luke de Spa]

what peabody is trying to say is: you're mexican

[Luke de Spa]

what a frigging homophobe, right

[obscured01]

I graduated in Aug. 07 with a BA in English Lit and Lang. too. I planned on teaching high school English and enrolled in a teacher certification program. It took me a year to finish the teacher cert. program, not including my internship. In the meantime I subbed at various schools for a couple of months, and then got a job as a teacher's assistant at an elementary school. It was ridiculously hard finding a teaching job, so many teachers are out of work here. After working as an assistant for 2 years, an opening came up at the elementary school and the principal hired me as a Kindergarten teacher. I stayed there a year and was moved schools at the beginning of this year and now teach 2nd grade.

So yeah, it wasn't a cakewalk. Two years until I found a serious post collegiate job.

[Eulogy]

jesus fuck you wanted to teach high school and ended up with kindergarten and second grade?

i considered going that route in order to teach high school and would have shit my fucking pants if i'd had to teach kids that young

[obscured01]

Originally Posted by Eulogy

jesus fuck you wanted to teach high school and ended up with kindergarten and second grade?

i considered going that route in order to teach high school and would have shit my fucking pants if i'd had to teach kids that young

Honestly, I was just so grateful to have a job, I didn't even care it wasn't the grade/age I wanted to teach.

Ideally I would love to teach high school (my sis in law teaches high school Eng. and loves it) but I've been in the elem. sector for almost 5 years, changing is kind of intimidating now, although I am certified to teach pk-4 and 8-12 eng.

[Eulogy]

yeah i couldn't have bitten the bullet on that one. i could never ever ever deal with a group of kids that age. ever.