Borough Assignment and Tests

So I found out I'll be teaching in Manhattan, which is fantastic. I would have been happy with Brooklyn too, but I am very comfortable with lots of different neighborhoods in Manhattan, many more than I know in Brooklyn, and it will be nice to work in a neighborhood I already know and understand. So hooray. I've been trying to send out resumes and stuff, but I feel so weird sending out a resume to a job that I am, literally, unprepared for. I am not even certified yet! So far I've sent out two resumes and I haven't heard back from anybody. I don't know if I should call and follow up or what. I mean, how would I even follow up anyway? Hi, I sent you a resume did you get it, do you like me? I don't know. I am not used to this at all.

Tomorrow night I am going to a semi-job fair-like thing. I don't know what it is, but there are going to be two principals there from schools I am really interested in. Hopefully I can talk with them a little and give them my resumes and cover letter. I printed out a generic cover letter before I knew there were only going to be two schools there that I could work at, so now I am thinking to just make two personalized cover letters. But I also don't have a printer, so it might be a moot point unless I can find one fast. I shall blog about my first official educator work related experience soon! I can't believe I'm actually going to have one of those.

And finally, I took my LAST on Saturday. It was easy. It was SO easy. I hope I did ok. It was the kind of easy where you wonder what kind of ridiculous answers are they really getting at that make sense to no one and totally screw up your score. The essay was so awful and I really just sort of knocked something out that I'm pretty sure was mediocre. I don't really care though because I think you can get some incredibly huge number of questions wrong and still pass. Like thirty out of eighty or something. Which, is kind of silly when you think about it, because no high school student who missed thirty questions out of eighty on a test would pass, but his teacher gets more leeway. Interesting.

Job fair tomorrow!