Interviews

Shall I report on the good interview or the dumb one first?

Dumb one it is.  It's better to end on a high note, right?

Dumb Interview

A reporter from a nearby newspaper called our house asking to interview our family at our home with her camera.  She wanted to do a piece about international adoption.

(She learned about the internationalness of our family from a homeschool field trip we went on to the newspaper office.)

So we set up an appointment for this last Monday at 3:45.

House clean, faces washed, photogenic clothing on.

4:20, no reporter.

I called the newspaper office...

She had it down for Tuesday, not Monday.

No, it was Monday.  I had confirmed it with her.  But, I'm all for advocating adoption so I rescheduled it for the next day.

It's Tuesday now.  House, faces, and clothes still pretty much clean.  4:15, no reporter.

Serious?

I called her office again and she said she had forgotten.  Her and her husband are down to one car, you know.  That was her excuse.  Really?  I just talked to you yesterday when you stood me up the first time and you didn't think to call me?!

She wanted to reschedule but I told her that I was afraid she wasn't going to show up again and we have been putting our life on hold for her to come.  I want to put the word out about adoption, but this is ridiculous.

She ended up interviewing me on the phone right then and said she will for sure come to our house next Wednesday.  She wrote it in pen on her calendar.  As if that means anything.

So I've spent the last several days fretting and wondering and hoping that this irresponsible woman will properly represent our family and adoption.  It seems unlikely and I'm already penning a letter to the editor in my mind.  I finally just gave these worries to God and asked him to take care of it all.

That's better.


The Good Interview

I applied for that teaching job, remember?  Since then I have had an online interview, several emails back and forth, references requested, and a phone call with the school representatives.

And now they are on Winter Holiday.  So we get to wait.

But, it's been fun to be in this process and to think about the realities of moving next summer and professionally teaching again.

Ahh!  Really, so neat.

There are others who have applied ahead of me and the word is that the Director is nearly ready to offer the position to someone who is not me.  He has not seen my file yet due to all of my references not being back in.  But, I know that my name has been made known to him so perhaps my file has been in front of him.  And perhaps he will be newly inspired to offer me the job!

As in the above Interview That Wasn't, I have put my trust in God to fully guide this situation.  What a perfectly wonderful thing... to know that God will do what He knows is best.  If I am not offered the position, then it's not the right path for our family.

I want what he wants.

I'll let you know what that is when I know.