Alisha and I received our second job offer from the recruiting agency (Reach to Teach) and it's perfect so we accepted it. The name of the school is Uncle Sam American School and it's located about 40 minutes outside of Taipei. Besides having the most stereotypical name ever it seems pretty cool. Here is a link to their website.

The recruiting agency gave me the e-mail address of one of the current ESL teachers (Melanie) and she was able to tell us a lot about the school. I was also fortunate enough to find a blog by a girl named Jenny Reynen who taught at Uncle Sam American School a year ago. She was also able to give me a lot of good information regarding the school. We feel lucky to have two outside sources that can give us candid information. Otherwise we would be depending on the word of the school and recruiting agency.

Here is a list of things that we love about the school:

1. Alisha and I will be working at the same school.

2. We will be teaching different ages at different times of the day.

3. There are always 7 ESL teachers at this school so we won't be the only foreigners.

4. The school itself is actually very nice and it looks beautiful.

5. We will not only teach english, but other subjects like P.E.

6. We get 8 to 10 days of paid vacation.

7. After 6 months we have a performance review and can receive a pay raise.

The only bad thing is that they need us to arrive April 1st, so we had to change our plane tickets. We will now be leaving Wisconsin on March 30th at 7:30 pm. We will arrive in Los Angeles at 10:00 pm and have a 3 hour layover. This is actually kind of convenient because it gives me time to say goodbye to my family in LA before leaving. Our flight to Taipei will be almost 14 hours and we will arrive at 6:25 am the next day.

More info to come...