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Well hello again. As some of you may or may not have known I have recently been applying and interviewing for two jobs. one job was another touring show called Dralion. I had applied for the same job I am doing now but just on a different tour. One of the main reasons for that is because the tour is in Japan right now and after that run will be heading back to AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND. The other job I had applied for was a temporary job as the Technical Director on a new show that Cirque is putting in at Tokyo Disneyland. The person I was interviewing for at this job was my former boss on Quidam so I thought I had a pretty good shot at this job. About two weeks ago I got the phone call from Montreal HR saying that I had been offered the job on the tour and I was very excited. However I asked that I take some time to see if I was going to get an offer from the Tokyo show because it was a better career move if I got that job.

After having the interview and talking to a couple of people after the interview it was just a waiting game to see when and if they’d make the decision to hire me. Unfortunately Dralion was still waiting and people, rightfully so, were getting concerned for time reasons about the Dralion job. So I was sent an email that I had make a decision on Monday, today. Well this morning at 9:00am I got the phone call from my former boss telling me that I didn’t get the job at Tokyo Disney for a variety of reasons. Needless to say I was kind of shocked but as soon as I hung up the phone with him I called Montreal to accept the Dralion job.

I still haven’t heard back from Montreal yet but I know they can get really busy up there so I’m hoping that either later today or tomorrow I’ll get a confirmation of this job.

So now I’m about to gear up to head to another tour and some new opportunities. I’ll be heading first to a Japan where I have never been but have been wanting to go for quite some time. Then I’ll be heading back down under again and I have to say I’m very excited about that. I’m really looking forward to seeing more of Australia this time, doing a lot more scuba diving and when I get over to New Zealand I am really looking forward to doing a lot of fly fishing.

The rest of my time here on Quidam will undoubtedly be extremely busy and of course when I get to Dralion I will again be extremely busy trying to learn a new show AND see Japan at the same time but I’m looking forward to all of it.

I don’t know if I’ll blog again before I go home for Christmas and get really busy with leaving here and arriving in Japan. So if I don’t I just wanted to take the opportunity to say MERRY CHRISTMAS & HAPPY NEW YEAR. I miss everyone and hopefully will have the opportunity to come say hi soon.

Paul