Jean Noel Moikeenah - February, 2007

…………………….hello again, hope you’re being patient with me. There’s so much going on that i can only update my blog once a week. Anyway, the course is really good. It’s exactly what i wanted in a course. It’s made me open up and let my real self come out. Doing it long distance, i can plan around my everyday life and my family. i can also decide when i want to finish it according to what else is going on around me. my wife is very supportive. she also helps me now and again as she’s already a tefl teacher and has been teaching for 2 years. Living in the south of france, with the demand for english teachers, is ideal for the life that we came here for. it’s got everything that we need. we bought our house outright so we haven’t got a mortgage, the climate is great, short winter, long summer. we’ve made friends from the church we visit and also from my daughter’s school. their is an anglophone association that has lots of activities all year round. the food is great, hardly any crime…………………………

……………………….9% unemployment in France, a system that doesn’t allow you much flexibility when it comes to changing your job, needing to be trained in something or have a diploma to get a job. All these makes it really difficult to find work. Not just for foreigners from the EU but French citizens. One good thing about Sarkozy(controversial presidential candidate) is that he wants to bring the British employment system to France much to the discontent of the French. It’ll be too late for me though, i’ll be a qualified TEFL teacher raking it in(i wish).
I’ve probably applied for a 100 jobs in just over 2 years and i’m still waiting for my first interview. Anyway, things are looking up. I’m convinced i’ll be winning the euro lottery soon. Keep watching………………….;

…………………………anyone that says a correspondence course is low standard and not worth much should try and do one. This course that i’m doing is more involved, more interesting, more intense than a year’s course in a classroom. It allows you to be yourself. You can take your time, you’re not under any pressure because you have 18 months to complete it. You can write whatever you want, express your opinions, feelings without caring what others think of you. You have more time to think things through which enables you to write down answers that you’re happy with. There are so many advantages of doing a correspondence course. I will point them out as the year and my course progresses.

My typical day would be, get up, get my daughter ready for school, take her to school, come home, have breakfast and get on with my course. Have lunch and a break, carry on with the course, pick up my daughter from school and get dinner ready. All, in the beautiful scenery of the south of France…………………………………