curriuculum vitae

My host mother was nice enough to speak to the director of the nursery (preschool) that her youngest daughter attends about me possibly getting a job in the mornings there. The director told my mother to have me call her and set up an interview to which I should bring my "curriculum". I started to freak out in my head because I have never created any kind of curriculum before and I was unsure of what kind of curriculum I should be bringing into a Catholic Spanish Preschool. After the word curriculum had been repeated several times, I finally asked what they meant by that. It turns out "Curriculum Vitae" is the common term throughout all of Europe to describe an expanded resume. I felt really stupid because we use this term in English too and I should have known what it meant. The difference between a "CV" and a resume is that a "CV" is much longer and describes more than just previous occupations. In Europe, people are not in a hurry as in the US, so it makes sense that even their resumes would be longer than ours! I told my "parents" that for many jobs in the US, it is considered unprofessional to have a resume that is longer than one page, and the father told me that Europe is starting to use the long CVs less and less and shorter, resume-like documents more and more. (Mom, I already know you are dying to correct me on at least one thing I just said above, so disclaimer: I'm not 100% sure that everything I just said about CV and resumes is 100% correct)
Anyway, I'm just hanging out today, the weather is kind of bad, they are predicting a lot of rain for the whole country (although as I write this, the sun comes out), so I am going to work on my "CV". Wish me luck in this little experiment because I sure don't have more than one page of experience worth talking about!