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Are you in need of a story to put a smile on your face this Christmas? Well here’s just that, Kay Wells from Australia, headed to Nepal as a TEFL teacher and had an experience of a lifetime: I would love to tell the world about my amazing adventure. I have Muscular dystrophy, so I needed help at all times, but I am a very strong determined happy person, and I had lots of enthusiastic...

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Hi there - I need some help, please.   I am an native English speaking South African, and hold a South African passport.  I was schooled in English (all schooling, plus tertiary schooling as well).   I qualified with a 100 hour TEFL Certificate last year (December 2009), plus an additional 5 hour Business English Certificate.  I have a 3 year National Higher Diploma, that gets the same NQF rating as a 3 year B degree...

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Hi TEFLer Friends,How are you all doing? Hmm..!! Must be enjoying the snow fall along with the new skills and techniques acquired from an Interactive TEFL Course in a classroom.Well friends, you can't imagine what level of confidence i-to-i TEFL would lead you to. Well, its my own observation that TEFL gives a lot of opportunities to explore a variety of cultures, meet the people of different races and overall, learning new skills and languages.                 ...

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With no regrets for either going to South Korea or subsequently running away in the middle of the night, I admit I ran.   If this wasn't the story of a quitter, it would be a story about getting fired from a Korean hagwon. Shortly after the tensions with North Korea started rising, in my very own classroom I was shot in the lip with a BB gun. Neither of those things actually had anything...

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I finally past the 60hr TEFL Cert. Only panic I had was checkpoint 5.

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Hi, I need some help and advice, I want to get a job for August/September next year but not sure how to go about this. This is because I will be in China from January till August, therefore won't be able to attend seminars or interviews in my home country. I was looking at the INTERAC programme but you have to attend seminars in your home country, is there any other programe that will allow...

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Forget losing weight, forget eating healthily, forget all that toning nonsense – here’s why teaching English abroad should be number one on your must-do list for 2011! 1.      You’ll get paid to travel We’ve all been there – nose pressed up against the window, dreaming of somewhere a little more exciting, but alas, the festive period has drained all available funds! The good news is that TEFL is a great alternative to remortgaging your house,...

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Okay, so your TEFL classroom might not have a brand spanking new Blu-ray player or a fancy projector, but that doesn’t mean your students can’t have lots of fun in your lessons. Teaching in a class with limited resources doesn’t have to be boring, you can make the most out of you, a board and a classroom full of rowdy kids! And here’s how: Stand up, sit down game 1. Split the class into two...

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Well I don’t know where to start considering so much has happened in such a short space of time...here’s a summary of events...I’ve been to Ko Samet and its beautiful...the beach is white, sea clear and it lights up at night to a variety of bars and clubs to suit everyones taste. Like a very excited school child I ran out the school on Friday afternoon, jumped into a taxi and made my way to...

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Does anybody know if there are any jobs, anywhere in the world where i can work for one or two months (in April and May 2011), I'll be doing my TEFL course in April, and then May is a totally free month for me. I really want to experience the travelling and teaching experience before I go to college. I am 17 without a degree with fluent English. If anybody has any idea, I'd be...

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