Sigh...

A day spent entirely in futile attempts to land a job. And find a wireless cafe close by. You see, I had heard that there was a wireless sight by my house. When I went looking, however, I realized that, alas, there is no such place that I can find, and to make matters worse everyone here either is telling the truth, and they have never heard of wireless, or else they have really never heard of it, and either way I don't care I just want to punch them in the nose for not being able to point me in the right direction. And worse than THAT, I have wireless sometimes in my house, which is the biggest tease, because I will literally get it or not get it depending on the exact placement of the computer, and a centimeter to the right or left, up or down, will completely lose the signal and may not be gotten back for the rest of the day or night. AAAHHH!

As for the job hunting, I called about 35 places today, and got positive responses from about 3. Well, that's an exact number, isn't it. 3. So this "job guarantee" that I was supposed to have (which, by the way, is the reason I picked this school...) seems to be entirely up to me. Some guarantee. "We guarantee, if you work your ass off to find some, you will get jobs!" And, of course, because it wouldn't be right if it didn't work this way, no one speaks English at these institutes. So I have to ask, in Spanish, if they have any jobs for teachers, then get directions and make appointments and try to sell myself meanwhile with a nasty case of laryngitis and a phone that sounds like the other person on the line is whispering to me through the walls from the neighbor's house. It's impossible to hear.

So for the most part it went OK, except for the time I said "Yo quiero ensenar muy rapido," (I want to teach very fast) to which I got a reply of "Que?" (Whaaa?) And then I had to amend it to ""Puedo empezar muy pronto." (I can start right away.) Then I had such a fit of laughter that I am sure they thought they were on the phone with a lunatic, and at that point they were, unfortunately, not looking for teachers at this time. Shock!

In the end I have 3 interviews lined up for this week, so that's cool, hopefully my schedule (read shhedjewl) will fill up and I will be a teaching machine. Fingers crossed!