Homesick in Switzerland

It is now December. How the time flies! only 3 weeks til X-mas… Kwang’s friends are coming down from London to visit. I’m still trying hard to find a job. It’s not been great but not been all bad. I’ve had a few phone calls and one proper interview. Not too bad for a month’s efforts. I’ve struck a nice friendly relationship with my RAV (unemployment agency) advisor and assuming I don’t find work by January, I’ll be sent off to a repeat German course. It’s for free of course… paid for by the govt to up my chances of getting a job. Transport will also be paid for, which is excellent!

However, if I’m REALLY lucky I won’t be doing this language course cos I’ll have a job. OK, so I haven’t heard any good news, plenty of rejection letters arriving in the mail every few days… but good things take time right? I’m waiting on a couple of phone calls from employers who promise to call back regardless the result. I’ve had the not-too-good interview. But my friend Armand who works at that same place had said some nice things about me, and according to him there’s a few people who didn’t even show up for their interviews and so I’m still in the running (1 of 3 candidates) for the job no matter how horrid I believe the interview went. Hope to hear the decision real soon. (like YESTERDAY)

Of course I’m not gonna bank all my hopes on one job. Still looking and still gonna keep trying. And in the mean time I gotta keep up with all the housewifey tasks at home. Cooking is a given. Cleaning has fallen a little behind. And of course revising my German CDs and what not, re-learning from scratch.. especially conversational German. Can’t work if I can’t talk can I?

In any case, I gotta pick myself right back up… even though I feel a little crappy today… *ugh* I’d better not be getting sick! Right! Time to get on with it!

~ by belliscute on December 2, 2008.