Great News!!!!!

It's Casey typing today. No, nothing stupid today. But then "stupid" is a perspective thing. But seriously now. Three weeks ago I had an interview to see if I could teach high school Spanish in Meridian at a school named Renaissance. The administrator was impressed with my resume and the interview and told me that she needed to interview another candidate for the position. Before the interview began she saw my Arabic credentials and was flabbergasted that I was fluent.
I asked if there was a chance to teach Arabic knowing full well that not many are interested. But this school focuses in international politics and medicine (through Idaho State University), and will soon do engineering. She said that Arabic was not an option yet and that it would take a couple of years to get this idea going. This was a typical response that I have heard. She asked if I was fluent in Chinese and I said "yes." She said, "REALLY!?" I said. "No." Then she said "oh..." (Just kidding on the whole Chinese part). Okay, I am "lame." How's that?
But she said that she would come out to observe me and see if I was really a good teacher to do the job. This school is a difficult school to get into so I was kind of nervous.
One person came and said I was great. Then she came when my students were being pulled out of class for testing. It was chaotic!!!!! She asked me if there was anything that I would do different the next time there was so much chaos and I said, "Drink a bottle of Pepto Bismol next time you show up!" She laughed. It was a good sign.
Just today I got a call from her and she said that the Spanish position was going to be filled by someone else and I was sad. But then she asked if I would be on the design team to teach Arabic!!!!! YES! ARABIC!!!! So I did what any normal person would do under the circumstances. I told her my students were taking a test and that I'd call her later, after I accepted the offer.
So everybody give me a big "Yahoo!!" The end.