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Re: New Zealand Participants

Postby Ja9 » Thu May 26, 2011 10:19 am

ahh thanks for that :) i know i should just be patient and wait...and try not to be paranoid about not getting a placement. not long to go til the end of may...!
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Re: New Zealand Participants

Postby karamucho » Thu May 26, 2011 12:38 pm

Hey guys,

I`ve heard of some people being contacted by employees of the school they are going to work for before receiving official notification. Has this happened to anyone here?
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Re: New Zealand Participants

Postby Angela_SagaPA » Thu May 26, 2011 12:39 pm

Hey all,

Good to see a kiwi thread up and running! ALT shortlister from Auckland here, restlessly waiting for placement notifications. I have no teaching experience, although have worked in holiday programmes and as a teacher aide, and know no Japanese! So should be interesting!

I also got the who is the head of state question, as well as who is on the $5 note, and a couple of other random NZ questions. Interview was horrible, I was certain that I wouldn't be accepted!

Good luck to those that are alternates and waiting to hear.

It's nice to read some information from NZers and what they are up to! Thanks for the reminder about the Q&A...I'd completly forgotten and was looking at going away that weekend, might have to reconsider, especially if it's a 9-5 deal :( oh well.

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Re: New Zealand Participants

Postby rosec20 » Thu May 26, 2011 2:29 pm

I also got the who is the head of state question, as well as who is on the $5 note, and a couple of other random NZ questions. Interview was horrible, I was certain that I wouldn't be accepted!

Wow, I didn't get any random questions like that, they were all what I expected "Why Jet? What do you see your position being as an ALT? What will you do when you finish with Jet?......." But I was sooo nervous, I completely bombed my interview :oops: So that's sort of my reasoning for being an alternate.
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Re: New Zealand Participants

Postby nzpete » Fri May 27, 2011 10:08 am

come on placements.....!!!!!!!! Aieyahhh..

I know posting this does not achieve anything but i'm sooo compelled to!!
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Re: New Zealand Participants

Postby Ja9 » Fri May 27, 2011 11:23 am

karamucho wrote:Hey guys,

I`ve heard of some people being contacted by employees of the school they are going to work for before receiving official notification. Has this happened to anyone here?


not for me...it'd be great though! confirmation that i'm ACTUALLY going...i so thought today was the day...
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Re: New Zealand Participants

Postby Cytrix » Fri May 27, 2011 11:37 am

I'm highly doubting we'll hear until next week. The third is the Friday, so it'll be sometime by then.

I gave in my letter of resignation from work today. I know I was going to wait until placement, but my principal is off on a fortnight trip around China for marketing, so it was either now or leave it far too late (especially as I am already within the two months notice I have to give, being a teacher).

All a little bit more real now.
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Re: New Zealand Participants

Postby nzpete » Fri May 27, 2011 1:25 pm

good on you cytrix!!! phew im not the only 100% commited & not knowing wtf we're doing LOL
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Re: New Zealand Participants

Postby Cytrix » Fri May 27, 2011 2:16 pm

I figure if there's no placement, I can always become a lady of leisure
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Re: New Zealand Participants

Postby rosec20 » Fri May 27, 2011 2:20 pm

Tempted to quit my job too, even though I'm only an alternate! Not having fun at work :cry:
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Re: New Zealand Participants

Postby karamucho » Fri May 27, 2011 9:23 pm

I was hopeful that it`d be today too but they seem to like having us wait until the last minute with all the notifications haha
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Re: New Zealand Participants

Postby nzpete » Sat May 28, 2011 6:33 am

argh!! it's the end of may next week sooo.....


COME ON PLACEMENTS (I know its the weekend all, just need to vent somewhere)
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Re: New Zealand Participants

Postby Nats » Sat May 28, 2011 12:42 pm

Haha the wait is a killer isn't it? Everytime I jump on here I get excited, but then I read everywhere about no info til possibly the 3rd... The waiting and wondering has completely destroyed my motivation for uni work, so I'm very glad not to have to rely on this term to graduate. Got a feeling I'm going to bomb my exams :( Don't know if it's bad courses or due to EQ-biz, but this semester has been semester of DOOM. So stressed, I actually had a cry the other day when I realised my essay due a week ago hadn't properly submitted through the uni site... I was so organised, finished it a week before the deadline as well!

Hang in there rosec20, I bet once placements are announced you'll get upgraded :D

Lady of leisure ay Cytrix? Will you have to work through until the school holidays?

Hey NZAnge, glad to find another teaching-experience-less kiwi here. They asked me about experience in my interview and I said 'well, I have a younger brother...'

Just think, this will (hopefully) be the week!
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Re: New Zealand Participants

Postby Cytrix » Sat May 28, 2011 8:42 pm

Nats wrote:Lady of leisure ay Cytrix? Will you have to work through until the school holidays?


Yup. Will be teaching and marking assessments and planning school work up until the 15th of July, and then I get to drive from Auckland to Invercargill to spend time with the folks.

Let's just say I've already started to pack things away slowly so I'm not stressed out at the end...
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Re: New Zealand Participants

Postby nzpete » Tue May 31, 2011 9:14 am

ok, it is the last day of May now.... I'm dying here!
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