Yes, it's looking quite promising. The second and third interviews with other schools went quite well today. One was for the folkuniversitetet, which is sort of like a satelite or continuing education school for Stockholms Universitetet. It would basically be a part-time gig for extra cash. The other looks good too, although they won't know what they need until after Easter. The pay is going to be better than I had thought, which will be nice in the long run. Today's interviewing gymnasiet [Internationella Kunskaps Gymnasiet (International Knowledge High School)] requires teachers to chaperone students on trips to some pretty exotic locales, including Russia, Africa, Japan and China. This sounds like work but also pretty damn thrilling. The school is transitioning a bit but it sounds like it's for the best. It is moving about 300m from its current location but the facilities look great. The English staff were welcoming and seemed like a nice bunch to work with. The rektor has some fire which is well directed but also invigorating.
Overall it all sounds good. I'm sure to miss many people, but I feel happy like a kid here, invigorated in a more fundamental way that is hard to explain. I so very much enjoyed cheering for Sweden as they played Northern Ireland, even if they lost! There is something fundamental and free about it all. And yet, I know I'll be missing many people who are important to me and I hope you all know that and that I'll be expecting you all to visit. OK?
The weather is spoiling me. It's better than Chicago's current weather!
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I for one am curious what this "fundamental" factor is that is rising in you as you connect with Sweden?? (You reference it twice.) I wonder sometimes IF there is an essential self or true self that we are meant to find and connect with - or if we, in fact, are always creating that by our choices and intent.
Whatever the case may be, you sound enlivened and that is great!
The self is only as abstract as you make it. I choose to see it as historical in nature and therefore resonant in truth with the present should one come in touch with the past in a meaningful way, either positively or negatively.
Great. Now you've gotten me thinking all philosophically. I'm going to try not to do this for a while as it never resolves me within myself. Abstraction is the whore of reality, doing it with everything but creating little meaning. : )
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