Oh my goodness! So much has happened! Finally, things are starting to come together! After a year of work, I finally received my Florida Teaching Certificate, so now I have started really getting the stuff together that is needed for an Alaska certificate. William (the fiancé) and I have our plane tickets to Anchorage in April and we also have our hotel booked. This is a humongous step in the right direction!
My application for an Alaska certificate is filled out and the only thing I have left to do is get my fingerprint card filled out (requiring me to drive to the other side of town and figure out where the fingerprinting office is) and get some piece of paper notarized saying that I am not lying on my application. I plan to do that as soon as possible, but I have been sick for the last week and I have not had the motivation to leave my bedroom, let alone the house. Oh yeah, let us not forget the $200 application fee. v_v
The Teacher Job Fair is this April. It definitely shows how fast time has flown. I remember last April, sitting there thinking how awesome it would be to go to this job fair, but how I could not do anything since I was still a student. That lame-period has passed and now we are in the awesome-period. Many references are recommending that I complete about 15-20 application packets for my top 15-20 school districts in Alaska. I have about 17 school districts on my list. Each application packet must include: the 4-page application (name, contact information, school information, the basics), three professional references (I have two, I am just waiting on one more), a letter of introduction (have that written for the most part, I'm just tweaking each one to show I have been doing research on the school districts; maybe I'll keep a generic around just in case), and my resume (pretty basic since my experience is next to none, except the few days of student teaching I completed). Other than filling out the applications, everything else can be photocopied. Boy does technology make life easier!
As of right now, my dry erase board has a list of everything that I plan on bringing to Alaska (including the amount of clothes I need to bring). My aunt and uncle got me this ridiculously awesome (and enormous!) suitcase for Christmas so we hopefully will only need to pay one baggage fee ($23 for one and $32 for an additional, so if necessary, we can swing the extra $32). On top of that, I'm going to have my backpack (carry on) and purse (personal item) that holds my laptop, camera, and most likely the Nintendo DS. With a 14+ hour plane ride, I will certainly be in need of video game entertainment.
We are going to be in Anchorage for 6 days. The job fair is only two days, so that leaves us a few days to actually get some sight-seeing done. The main thing that we want to do is rent a bike and ride along the Tony Knowles Coastal Trail. That should be awesome. Another thing we want to do is go to the Chugach National Park. That, though, will require a taxi ride to get there but that is where the mountains reside. I want mountains (and bears, eagles, moose, etc)! I know that this is all three months away, but it never hurts to have a head start!
On top of all of this, I got an email from the Fairbanks School District saying that they will be holding a job fair on March 26th (my birthday). We have the opportunity to have an interview via Skype. I put my application in and hopefully will get an interview. I really am not holding my breath, though, since I am a first year teacher and mostly expect to be sent to the Bush. Overall, though, I'd be happy with a job in general. :D
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