TESOL Course - application process

After what felt like a hundred attempts, I finally got through to the course convenor for the Trinty Cert. TESOL course at the Manchester College. Yahoo! Here's what I found out:

• The course runs on Thursday nights, from 6pm until 9pm. Brilliant! No need to get flustered about fitting in a day-time course around work commitments! 
• It's going to be a bit more expensive than we'd thought. Quite a lot more, actually. Not £300, but £1,300. Yikes!
• It turns out we don't have to register on 31st August as we'd thought. Instead, there's a three-part application process - 

1. A two-page application form
2. A 500-word, handwritten essay

Please HANDWRITE 500 words on a recent learning experience you have had; this could be academic / practical / personal / other. Describe the learning situation, methods, activities and techniques through which you learned and evaluate the outcome of the experience.

3. An interview, including a written task under supervision

Candidates will be invited for an interview and will be asked to complete a writing task under supervision. During the interview the task will be discussed. In the interview account will be taken of speaking voice, self-awareness, presentation and potential professionalism / employment.

• Applications are on a first come, first served basis. This means we need to pull our fingers out and get applying as soon as we can! 
• The course lasts for 32 weeks, starting in October and running until June 

It looks complicated. It looks challenging. It looks like hard work. Then again, nobody ever said it was going to be easy!