Fair Fun Game School



On this week's "Brothers & Sisters," The Walkers fall victim to certain elements and have to figure out which ones they can control.

Kevin's biology lesson
Sarah is getting some major tween-tude from Paige. When did she grow up? So, when Paige's school sponsors a science fair, Paige isn't keen on her mother helping out. Sarah asks her brothers to help.

Before the fair, Kevin and Scotty find out that their sperm has created eight possible embryos. Five are Kevin's. The other three are Scotty's. Kevin's competitive nature moves to boasting after he hears the news and Scotty gets visibly annoyed by his behavior. When Kevin helps Paige with her science project (creating electricity from lemons), he funnels his competitive nature into the project. He bumps it up a few notches from her idea of powering a small light to a dancing robot.

While at the fair, Scotty finds out that several of the embryos haven't matured correctly. The faulty ones are Kevin's. Kevin then funnels his feelings of inadequacy into Paige's project, as well. While he's "upgrading" it, the whole thing falls apart.

While Paige blames Sarah's motherly meddling and not Kevin for her project being destroyed, Kevin apologizes to her. He explains that when he was young, he always overcompensated. That usually led to him being made fun of.

Holly wants out
Meanwhile at Ojai Foods, Saul asks Holly not to pursue charges on Ryan in regards to ruining their batch of wine. After all, he saved Kitty's life with his bone marrow transplant. She gives in, because she's just tired of fighting The Walkers on issues like this. Holly decides to approach Dennis, William Walker's former business partner and the guy who has been plotting with Ryan to overthrow the company, to buy her shares from her. After she brings him up to an incredibly high offer, Holly begins to think that his motives may go beyond simple revenge. She wonders if there's something she doesn't know about the value of the company.

Justin is a medical school flunkie
After Justin's advisor tells him to consider dropping out of med school, Justin lashes out at Rebecca and Kevin. He's frustrated, because no matter how hard he studies for exams, he still does poorly on them. At the science fair, Rebecca steers Justin to one of the science projects. Turns out it was created by a boy with a learning disability, who has created a project to illustrate how information isn't being read correctly by the brain. Justin decides that maybe he, too, has a learning disability and should be tested.

Nora suffers from temporary blindness when it come to Simon
After disappearing soon after Nora gave him a huge donation, Simon turns up again. Sarah warns her mother that something isn't right about him, but Nora seems to be taken by the handsome doctor. Right before the science fair, Sarah discovers a photo of Simon with another wealthy older woman. Kevin convinces her to let it go. At the fair, Sarah tries to warn her mother, but Nora isn't receptive.

The next day, Sarah walks in on Nora and Simon having lunch. Nora insists that Sarah stay. Turns out Nora has discovered the same photo Sarah did. She contacted the woman and found out that she, too, had donated money to one of Simon's causes. Nora finds out that Simon took the woman's money and disappeared. As Sarah looked on proudly, Nora puts into play an interesting turn of events that leads to Simon's arrest.

Thoughts and tidbits:

  • I'm really loving Holly, Rebecca and Nora's "sixth sense" in this episode.
  • Hilarious that Saul was hiding in the pantry with a fireplace stoker just in case Nora's plan to hand Simon to the police got out of hand.

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Haha - I was at that job fair as well and just wrote a lengthy report on my experience. I was about to post the topic but looks like you beat me to it.


This past weekend I attended the Bangkok SEARCH Associates Fair. This type of fair and SEARCH have come up a lot in past posts and topics so I thought I’d share my experience. For those who don’t know, SEARCH is one of the top recruiters who place teachers in top tier international schools all over the world. Teachers pay a fee ($200) and then are able to search for jobs and go to job fairs where they are able to meet headmasters and principals from international schools around the world. Teachers will hopefully interview with several schools at the job fair and offers will be made.

Okay, first of all, I’ll list my quals:

M.A. English Literature
B.A. English
California CLAD Teaching Credential (authorized to teach grades 7-12; subject matter: English)
TEFL

My experience:
The past 5 years I have taught EFL in various schools in both Thailand and Korea. The past 2 years I have taught in a mid-tier international school here in Bangkok, although it was still EFL. Before that I taught for 6 months in Britain at a girls’ school where I taught SAT and GCSE levels. In the US, I only taught summer school and cover, along with student teaching.

Going into the fair, I thought I had a pretty good chance of at least getting a few interviews. I was wrong. This is how it works. Each teacher at the fair has a folder, and each school has a folder. This is how they communicate with one another. Some interviews are set up beforehand this way, and teachers can request interviews this way as well. On the morning of the second day, the big doors open and there are about 100 schools sat at tables around a big ballroom. Behind each of them is the name of the school and the positions vacant. Schools are arranged alphabetically by country.

At 9:30, the doors opened and about 400 teachers went through to try and garner interviews from these schools. Most of the time you will have to wait in line for your turn to talk to the schools. You then have 90 seconds to talk to the school and convince them that you are a viable candidate for the position available. They will sometimes ask for your resume if they are interested, and will schedule an interview if they think you are a good match. Then you go to the next school that you’re interested in. This goes on for about 2 hours.

I had a list of about 15 schools, but I wound up speaking to about 20. So how many interviews did I get? Zero. Zilch. None. No one cared. Why? The main reason was because I don’t have any IB experience. The second reason is that I’ve been teaching EFL for the past five years and want to get back into subject matter teaching, which isn’t easy. I spoke to almost every school in Asia and a few in Europe. That’s all I had time for. But I kept getting the same reply: “You don’t have any IB experience so we can’t hire you.” This is the first big fair of this kind, so schools can afford to be picky. After all, there are about 8 more fairs scheduled. There’s another fair in March in Bangkok, so I might try again then. I will teach almost anywhere except for the mid-east. I just want to teach subject-matter English, preferably at a school where I can get some professional development in IB training so I can fair better next time. Right now I’m at the point where I’m going to be applying to schools all over Asia and hopefully someone will hire me – I just want to get out of EFL.

Anyway, I hear about these types of fairs a lot in posts and topics, so I thought I’d share. If you don’t have IB experience and you want to teach a core subject (science, math, history, English, etc.) then don’t bother – it is nearly impossible to get a job – at least at the first fair.

Any comments and advice are much appreciated!