Montreal update

Feb 16, 2007 13:13

I'm writing this using a touch-screen computer at a Second Cup in downtown Montreal. The touch screen takes a bit to get used to, but it's rather entertaining. :)  I just finished my interview for the JET Programme, which was at McGill, and now I'm hanging out until my flight home tonight.  I've promised
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pheral February 16 2007, 23:32:45 UTC
McGill! The gorgeous lead character from Man In A Suitcase! It's an omen i tells you, AN OMEN!

Have funs with all the travelling lark. I'm sure you dazzled the interviewees so completely with your brilliance that they simply didn't quite know where they were anymore.

::smooches::

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sinfonica February 22 2007, 17:16:55 UTC
::blushes at smooches:: Thanks for the vote of confidence! It's always hard when the interviewers don't give any sort of reaction to your answers, so you can't tell how you're doing based off of them. I mean, they laughed a few times (at appropriate times- at least I don't *think* they were laughing at *me*), but for the most part I think they were deliberately trying to be as intimidating as possible to see how I would react under pressure and with unexpected questions.

Le sigh. Ah well, I'll find out in April. But for now- back to the supposed miraculous cancer-curing qualities of radium (ironic claim, given radium's carcinogenic properties)!

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pheral February 23 2007, 21:34:29 UTC
I suppose the intimidation makes sense. Also were they doing five million interviews like that on the same day? They might have just fallen into a coma. When they did move or respond, was it kind of jerky and hard to understand? and did one of them fall off their chair and not get up again?

But for now- back to the supposed miraculous cancer-curing qualities of radium (ironic claim, given radium's carcinogenic properties)!

Er, yes! ::eyes cross::

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