ESL@Central Branch (Part 2)

Today is the registration day for ESL class at Central Library branch. When I got there, I saw one of the Thai ladies who was waiting for her friend to arrive. So I went ahead to the registration room, where there were several people waiting, and had formed a line outside the room already. Wow, its more popular than University branch.

Shortly, a lady came out of the room, and asked us who came first. She started giving number tags from 1-10. The guy who came before me took the last card, so I guess I was the eleventh. It didn't seem clear at first, but actually this class could only take in 10 students due to the room size. One by one, the numbers were called and each applicant went into the room. We were still waiting outside hoping to be admitted, and could see them filling up some forms and getting questioned by another lady in the same room.

I was chatting with the 2 Thai friends, when suddenly someone passed me a tag with "9" on it. She looks like Korean, and told me she is not joining the class, so wanted me to have it. I was surprised, in fact, shocked. Not sure if I did thank her before she walked off. I asked the guy before me, if he wanted to swap since he got here first.

He smilingly declined, and said "Its your good luck".
I must be blessed !

My number was called, I went in, sat down, and the other lady gave me a form to fill in my particulars. After completing it, this lady then asked me a few questions, like:

"Where am I from?"
"Why did I come to Seattle"
"What am I doing here?"
"What do I like about Seattle?", etc, etc.

Then I was asked to write a short paragraph on either one of the following:
(a) a fond memory
(b) a joke
(c) country where you came from

Oh well, I couldn't think of any fond memories or jokes at that moment, so I wrote about Singapore.

That's it ! I was informed of the venue and time for my first lesson and that's really it ! It was later that I understood what the lady earlier was talking about. The class size allocated is only 10, but since its such a big turnout, they decided to increase the size to 14. The last 4 will go through the same registration process, but will be notified if they could find a room big enough for 14 students. So its like a waiting list. The Thai ladies were lucky, both get ticket 13 and 14. :) As for the rest, they were advised to try other places like University branch with seats still available.

I was so happy that day, thank you thank you, to whoever watching over me. I hope this stroke of luck will follow me in my job hunting, which is really really going to be tough.