back on the scene....have been without internet for 2 weeks after moving due to some rogers related problems. oh well, back to being connected to the world. it's amazing how these days being cut-off from the internet feels a lot like having a limb or one of your senses removed. i felt lost, disconnected and uninformed...realised i not only communicate through the internet (a lot!) but also use it all the time for things i take for granted like checking the news or the weather, listening to songs i love (i was cut off from don't stop believing for a whole two weeks!!) and using maps to find places. i guess in a modern life the internet really has become a sort of extension of our daily reality, a commodity i feel naked without....lol i hope it doesn't take this long to set up the net at my posting :)
so i've now been in ottawa for 2 weeks. not too much to report really. i'm set up in a new flat, which is pretty much entirely empty as my stuff is still in alberta due to some organisational mishaps at headquarters. i have a really fancy blowup bed though. language training is hard going....i definitely feel for those who have had to learn from scratch, i honestly don't think that i would've had the patience or perseverance to go through with it. the 4 weeks i need is excruciating enough! grammar 7 1/2 hours days a week. boo urns! then i get to move over to the CIC office and commence something i've gotten really good at/used to.....yes, more waiting. but should find out posting availabilities come summer....
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Hi Jen, I am so excited to have found your blog! I am about to do the FSO interview (also in immigration) on March 11, and I have done sooooo much research, but alas, you are one of the few blogs I have found- thank you!
It seems as though this has been quite the process- did you really not move to Ottawa until February? WOW! Is that a typical timeline?
From your fellow Albertan,
k
Hi Kayla, Sorry been a busy bee with language training!
I was also a bit surprised that there wasn't very much else as far as personal experiences or blogs from canadian FSOs...thanks for the support! I'm planning to be a lot more active here once I actually start the job, instead of spending my days in French class.
I found out once I got here and met a bunch of the other new recruits that my time line was pretty long by all standards, I was pretty much the last person from our hiring group to start.I guess that happens sometimes....but everyone else that interviewed in Feb/March last year started at the end of summer/beginning of fall. Then, if you don't need/or need very little French training, you a course on immigration law in Ottawa, a 6 week training posting abroad in the spring and then you're off on your first 2 year posting by summer. If you need the full French thing, then it all goes down the same, but the following year.
Hope your interview went well!! Don't worry if you don't hear anything for a while....that apparently is very normal!
Good luck, Jen x
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