Topic: Buenos Aires
After a couple of flights and a brief stop in Lima, we were back in lovely Buenos Aires ready to shop for suits and prepare for our long-awaited job interview.
The day of the interview was hot and sticky. We met the president of Nagoya University of Commerce and Business in the lobby of the Sheraton hotel and began by having a nice chat about travelling in South America. I was concerned that he might not look favourably on this gap year of ours, but as it turns out, he was all for it and had backpacked around South America himself back in 1960!
After the interview, the president made a call to the dean of English Language and came back with two signed contracts for us as Assistant Professors of English Language starting April 1st 2005. We were very cool about the offer as it didn't sink in right away. Later, half way through a bife de lomo steak and a celebratory bottle of Saint Felicien Malbec, we realised that we both had jobs! We were very happy indeed.
We spent the next few days preparing and sending paperwork to Japan, and looking online at potential apartments in Nagoya.
In between all this excitement, we sweated through a summer heatwave in Buenos Aires, bought return flights to Rio de Janeiro, celebrated New year's Eve with our friends Cris and Ray, I turned 35 and we realised that our South American adventures are almost over. We'll need to head back home at the end of February.
Apologies for this rather rushed blog entry - I am badly falling behind in my writing!
Posted by jo mynard
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