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emily_strange84

It still works!

Nov 14, 2006 01:15

Hello my pretties. How have you been? Well behaved I hope. Grand, grand.

I trust you'll be pleased to know that the real world has, in fact, not eaten me alive the way myself and doubtless others had been anticipating. Oh no, that would be far too painless. Ha! I joke, I joke. It has been a seriously long time since I was on here, hasn't it ( Read more... )

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broken___angel November 14 2006, 01:17:24 UTC

Welcome back :)

xlucy_intheskyx November 14 2006, 02:18:51 UTC

A grand welcome back to you :D
I hope to hear more of your daily stories quite soon.

Welcome back 'n' that. false_name November 14 2006, 10:14:22 UTC

Ooh, TEFL. I set myself the rather wreckless target of going to teach English in South Korea if I'm still unemployed by Christmas.

As this looks more and more likely, the little details are beginning to emerge - like I'll still have 6 months left on my phone contract. Hopefully I'll get a job by then and I can maintain that I would have stuck to my promise otherwise...

Re: Welcome back 'n' that. emily_strange84 November 14 2006, 15:43:59 UTC

Do it do it do it! I taught abroad during my gap year, and if it hadn't been voluntary then I probably would never have left. Well, I'd have returned to the UK at some point, I'm sure, but I'd have liked to have squeezed a good couple of years out of the experience. One of the best things that's ever happened to me, for sure.

Would you be trained out there?

Re: Welcome back 'n' that. false_name November 16 2006, 22:41:16 UTC

I have no idea - I haven't looked that closely, but my instincts tell me "probably."

It's all ifs and buts, currently.

r7 November 14 2006, 10:35:08 UTC

TEFL course? Verry cool. I'm thinking of doing one of those myself.

Are you planning to teach abroad at some point?

emily_strange84 November 14 2006, 15:52:33 UTC

Go for it, definitely. The intensive weekend I went on a few weeks ago was draining, don't get me wrong, but great fun and absolutely worth it.

I've actually taught abroad before, for four months in Thailand three years ago, but on a voluntary basis. If it had been a paid position I would most definitely have postponed going to uni for a few more years and stayed on. I am doing this course so I can get a paid position abroad and, this time, stay as long as I like. Hopefully a couple of years at least. Although there is increasing demand for TEFL teachers within this country, so I'd like to have a go at finding something here first, something that I could possibly return to if I did take a few years out of this country.

r7 November 14 2006, 16:13:37 UTC

I had no idea there was a demand for TEFL teachers here. Someone told me that unless you have a Trinity or Cambridge TEFL qualification, its really hard to get a position in Britain, but maybe things have changed, which is definitely good news.

I work in finance at the moment. Well paying job and all that, but i plan to pack it in before i'm 30 to do something completely different e.g. teach english in japan.

I'm currently learning Japanese and by the end of the month, as part of the course, i will hopefully have started tutoring japanese students who are over here in London. Well its a plan anyway.

emily_strange84 November 14 2006, 16:19:43 UTC

Hmm, it hope that isn't true! From scouting around on the tefl.com jobs' site, though, that certainly doesn't seem to be the case. Some of them do want a qualification from a certain school, but then again some don't.

The tutoring sounds exciting, it should definitely be a good way to get your foot in the door.

necro_nerdo November 17 2006, 12:22:14 UTC

oooooh, ello stranger.