Tuesday, 12 May 2009

Year Abroad: The adventure begins.

Well, I've decided I should keep a blog of all the wonderful Swiss adventures I have, which I suppose have started already, now that I have been offered a post in a school in St. Gallen, in a town called Wil. The school is called Kanti-Wil (http://www.edv-kantiwil.ch/), a grammar school in the town that opened in 2002, it seems.
The town seems pretty nice, pretty old too, quite small (around 15,000 inhabitants), but I can't really find much info on google about it. I guess that shows how small it is!
Anyway, apparently I'll start working on 1st September, for 12hrs a week, and get paid the rather nifty sum of around 3200CHF a month, which after taxes and stuff is still pretty decent. The teacher I have been in contact with seems really nice and helpful; she's going to ring me in a day or two to have a chat about the job and stuff, and she's also said that the school will secure an apartment for me, which is bloody good, because I was a big worried about that. So, I guess the next reasonable time to update will be after I have spoken to her.