I'm a teacher!!!

Ok thats misleading. i was alreay a teacher, what i meant to say that i am now a registered New Zealand teacher. The NZQA paperwork turns out was completed end of September (27th) but for some reason i didn't receive my report till October 17th. However as a result of this unexplained delay by the time i got my report the Teacher's Council had my report for 2 weeks and they had been finalizing my registration.

So as of Friday October 17th, you can find me on the registration files with the Teacher's Council as a Provisional Registered New Zealand Teacher. Provisional means i need to get 2 years of experience before i can apply for full registration; all new teachers here in New Zealand fresh out of Teacher's college are also considered provisional.

Well you say, that sounds nice but what does that mean.
It has a two-fold effect. first off with provisional registration it means i can now teach for as long as i want, up till this point i was limited to 10 full days/20 half days of relief work. if i used those up before becoming provisional i would have to stop relieving until my registration came through. so now i can do relief work with no limits.
secondly (and this is the big one) i am now allowed to apply to permanent jobs. so on Monday i plan to hit up the Gazette for the new posts and start applying for permanent jobs. there are quite a few with the phrase "beginning teachers welcome" so i might as well try. it would totally be amazing if i could get a job for january. ^^