Happy Monday everyone,
Greetings from Koh Samui. Today is my last day on this island, I am flying out tomorrow morning with one of my new friends. The course finished officially on Friday, though I barely had any work during the final week. We had a little graduation ceremony Friday afternoon where we received our certificates. I was actually quite shocked to find out that I received an A+ as one of best students on the course along with a glowing recommendation. Very happy about this !
One of our favorite restaurants had promised us to make us a farewell dinner, it was absolutely amazing. They had prepared us a massive, beautiful buffet with delicious food. Some of us were leaving early Saturday morning so we had some sad goodbyes after dinner. The rest of us headed to Chaweng for a celebratory night out. Chaweng is great during the weekend: we bar hopped and at the end went to watch a fire show at the beach!
Saturday was full of goodbyes. Most of our group headed to Bangkok in the afternoon. I and my New Yorker found the course newbies so we headed back to Chaweng with them for the day. We spent the day at the beach and had some lovely lunch. It always feels good to be able to provide some advice and help, the newbies were full of questions. Saturday night was quite chilled, we went for dinner and a swim.
Sunday started with a lovely continental breakfast and the beach, followed by some packing and more goodbyes. In the evening my local bar owner friends provided me with a goodbye bottle of wine and a lovely chat. I headed to Chaweng with a friend on a scooter, a good night drive.
The purpose of my trip to Bangkok is to go collect my invitation and visa to enter Vietnam from the Vietnamese Embassy. I believe that I am flying out to Hanoi around Friday, it takes about five working days for the invitation to come through, mine was sent last week. We will be staying at our friend's house in central.
What you need to start working / to go to Vietnam; you should have your original degree papers with you, a police background check from your home country, your TEFL certificate and a copy of your passport data page. I highly recommend having a paper and an online copy of all of these documents. Just to be safe, I would also send copies of these documents to your emergency contact. I also have certified copies of all of these papers, however, it is likely that the Embassies and your boss will wish to certify their own copy. It might save you some money if you leave the certification for them. It will help you enormously in your job hunt if you have all your papers ready and set. You also need an updated CV and a cover letter directed to teaching jobs. In order to get a visa to enter Vietnam you need an invitation letter sent by your boss, this is the same for China for example. Usually companies provide their employees with all the necessary paper work for a work permit and a visa.
That's all for now, I am headed to the beach for my final day !
Best wishes,
Mira
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