Ah gawts dah jawb mah!
Well, as per the subject, I've only gone and finally gotten a job offer. It's with an English First franchisee in Shenyang in China.

Shenyang is a sizable enough city in North-Eastern China. It suffers from some fairly sever pollution and heavy dust from the local desert. It's a historic city, with many well preserved monuments of various dynasties. It's well off the tourist routes, but has a sizable ex-pat population. Apparently there's actually a small GAA (Gaelic Athletic Association : Sporting wing of the Irish republican movement) league out there.

English First is a franchise operation. the quality of individual schools tends to vary noticeably. The Shenyang school has a pretty good reputation online, and the two teachers I've exchanged emails with (one current, one ex) were pretty encouraging about it.

The housemate of one of my brothers has spent time in Shenyang fairly recently as part of a banking job. I will be visiting him shortly to get reams of info and the promised contacts list.

Tomorrow, make an appointmentfor vaccinations, and get the last of my dental work sorted. Also need to pick up an English First book or two to get a feel for them...

Now, what immediately essential preparations have I completely forgotten?