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  • Member since: 02/04/11
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Yello! 23 year old Londoner hoping to abadon the city in search of wonderful scenery, weather and children!
 
Taking the 140 hr combined and want to leave for Thailand in Oct/Nov.

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Great blog! Almost persuading me away from South America.


 


All the best!

ni hao! ni zai nali, shenme chengshr? sorry my font isn't working otherwise i'd type chinese as my pinyin's awful. oh my gosh, i LOVED taiwan. it's such a special country. yay that you're there! so when did you finish your TEFL online class, and how long have you been teaching abroad? have you ever taught anywhere else aside from taiwan? take care, drink some jinju naicha for me. miss that stuff so much!!

Hey soph!!


How is it all going in Taiwan??? I read your soph in the city. Loving it!! I am going to enjoy reading it. Hope your well and settling in nicely. Thank you for the advice. I decided to go to Korea in the end.Could do one year Korea and the next China. Who knows what will happen. All the best. M xXx

Hey Miss Brave! How r u getting on in Taiwan?? Is it what u expected?? What was yr first day of teaching like? Hope yr good. M x

hey thnxs for ading me friend have a nice day bye bye hope 2 meet  u soon online and i want 2 move to bkk this sep/oct also hope we can meet directly also bye bye

WOW! Well done you! I'm pleased to hear that!


Yeah, the 2 month break was a very bad idea :( I'm trying to get back into TEFL mode by working my way through the business english specialist module, a little difficult but I'll get there :) I still have 25 hours of the specialist modules and the 20 video course to go though :( so I'm super jealous of you right now hehe :P


Good luck with everything, I hope all goes well for you in future and I hope I'll also be joining you ASAP in saying "Goobye UK!" =D

Hey,


Long time no speak, how's things coming along with your course? Since I passed my 60hr online and 20hr grammar awareness courses I decided to take a 2 month break from everything as my course had expired and I have just deicided to start working my way through the specialist modules now. I'm thinking the break wasn't such a good idea though as my mind seems to have come to a blank and I finding the specialist business english module a little frustrating :(

Hey you alright there, just wondering what website links were you looking at if you don't mind me asking. I've been going round in circles trying to figure out which sites are good and which ones are bad cos i few of them just seem a little dodgy by the way the pages are laid out. Maybe it's just me. The ajarn website is the only good one that i know of so far. Check it out if you haven't already, cheers!

I'd love to work in Indonesia, but you need to be 25 and I'm only 23. So maybe once I've been away for a little while, gained more experience etc I'll end up on the beautiful beaches of Bali marking my children's books! Check point 3 is taking FOREVER, but I figure, only gotta do it once and then I'm qualified forever!


I haven't done the internship Jabba, just bought myself a 140 hr tefl and am gona throw myself in! Maybe Thailand? China? Who knows!

Hey, thanks!


Yeah I'm so thrilled I got through a big chunck of the course! Once I've completed the entire 140 hours I'd be looking for work in Jakarta, Indonesia. How about you?


Good luck with checkpoint 3, it's such a long checkpoint but once you get going it's not so bad :)


Keep in touch :)

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