It’s quite a humbling feeling reading someone else talking about your blog, especially when that person says things as nice as what I’ve just read about ELT World on Notes from the TEFL Graveyard, a blog which is quickly becoming a must read for me.
Anyone stuck in our profession will quickly be able to identify the kind of situations that are described so well here, such as [...]
Matthew Ward recently discussed the trials and tribulations of finding legal work in Brazil at the gringoes.com website. It makes for interesting reading:
Brazil: Finding the Money to Find a Job Part 1
One of the hardest lessons many of us foreigners learn here in Brazil is that there is always a disorderly queue of individuals happy [...]
South America is the one continent that has so far eluded me. I’m full of admiration for anyone who choses to go and teach English there. In this description of her teaching experiences, originally published in full at the OneStopEnglish Magazine, Eugenia Pozo explains, in a way that was a real eye-opener for me, what it’s like to teach in an Argentinian school:
The Republic of [...]
South America remains an enigma to me, a place I’d long to visit, even more so after reading this. In a fabulous account of teaching in the continent, Jacqueline McEwan shares the secret of undiscovered Bolivia, but, she says, don’t forget your oxygen mask:
If I’m unlucky my day starts with the electronic beep-beep I loathe. [...]
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