I kind of forgot about this board and I guess I have a lot to say right now, so maybe I should share.   I work for a small, privately run school in Yogyakarta. The school is very nice, the teachers are amazing. Lots of $$ goes into the school and the facilities are great. I like it. However.   When I came in to this school they told me that I was "legal"...

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My looking and asking and all of that jazz paid off! There was a bit of a delay with that whole evacuating from the volcano thing... but tomorrow I teach my first real ESL class. Ever. And I am NERVOUS. I have never worked with adults before, and these guys are grad students on a scholarship from the Indonesian government. I am getting them ready for their IELTS. And I am also teaching a class...

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I've sent out a ton of emails to various schools in the area, but have not recieved any responses. I know that the best thing to do is to go knocking on some doors, for real... but I am not quite ballsy enough (or comfortable with my Indonesian to give directions to a cab driver when I need to get back home) to do that right now. Does anyone have any suggestions other than actual...

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Okay. So I am in Jakarta and to be completely honest, it's not quite to my taste. It's too much like NYC for me. I grew up outside of NY and I want to be somewhere else now. Sooooo... we are flying out of Jakarta tomorrow afternoon for Yogya!! I am so excited about that!   The people in Indonesia, from what I have seen of them, are amazing. I am a complete East Coast...

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I really hate packing. And right now, the hardest part is seperating myself from my books. As I pull them off of the shelves, each one seems to me to be an excelent resource to have overseas. But I am allowing myself only three books. Everything else is on my reader. Three actual books. But which three?   A book of one act plays? A lovely collection of short stories? An anthology of world playwrites?...

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I am eight days from leaving for Indonesia! I am probably as nervous as I should have been when I went away to college.   By boyfriend and I are arriving in Indonesia on a tourist visa, and I am bringing along my college diploma and my TESOL cert. My plan is to try to find a teaching position in Yogyakarta, although my searches from the states have been pretty futile. There are plenty of...

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