Success!
Dear Bobbie,I am delighted to inform you that your interview with SMOE was successful!The next step will be for you to send us the documents necessary to obtain your Korean visa and to secure your place in the program. Please send the documents ASAP.
Had my interview yesterday morning and thought it went quite well despite some questions I hadn't prepared for popping up. I was really honest about my lack of experience teaching but tried to show I had a lot of experience learning languages and living abroad so I knew what it was like to be a student. Now I'm onto my visa process. And it's all sinking in. I could be in Korea by the middle of August!
The contract and teaching duties looks alright to me (it's bilingual thank god!). I would be contracted to work Monday-Friday usual working hours but wouldn't be teaching all the time and I get weekends and national holidays off. Plus the interviewer guy suggested I'd get days off whenever I didn't have classes due to class trips or testing. Plus for the majority of the time I should be with a Korean co-teacher and in control of what I teach. Also, they sort out my housing (which is good as it bypasses me trying to find a place but could also be bad as they could stick me anywhere lol!).
Only downside is that I don't find out where exactly I will be placed or living until the end of the orientation week. I will definitely be in Seoul as I applied to the Seoul Metropolitan people. I'm pretty fine with the not knowing thing to be honest as at least I will have a place to live whereas when I went to Italy I was stuck in a hostel for a month.
Just getting all my stuff sorted for my visa application. The main thing is getting my degree and criminal check apostilled (a word I have never come across before!) which means sending them off to the foreign office and them being confirmed as legal and stamped. Apparently it will cost £28 for each document, I'm looking into actually going down to the office in Milton Keynes to save the extra £6 return postage (but don't know if I have the patience to get a coach then wait in a queue just to save a couple of quid).
I don't believe it could happen to be honest. I think it will become a lot more real when I get the visa and confirmation letter. I won't believe it is happening til I have a flight booked. Then it's real!
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This is fantastic :) I'm so happy for you Bobbie, it will be amazing!
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