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Instead of breakfast, let's start with bedtime.  As much as I try to adjust it, it holds steady at about 3:00-3:30 am.  At midnight, it's time to start calling people back home.  If I want to speak with any of the late risers in my life, I'm going to have to hold out until the end, or do it before work.  Yeah right, before work!   My alarm is set for 8:45...I make sure that...

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Thought i would share a few tales on this journal thing, so forgive me as i tend to ramble :) I arrived in Yantai, Shandong, on the coast, with the expectation that i was teaching middle school but i soon discovered some interesting news!! i am teaching kindergarden....yes thats correct they have put me in charge of the little ones....cant see my degree coming to much use in the next few months, but hey at...

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Does anyone know how to change usernames on here, i don't want this one and can't seem to find anywhere to change it...or my email address??

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Hi all I am a bit stuck, i am a qualified teacher of 3 years, teaching Travel and Tourism as well as communication and functional skills English. I want to go abroad and be a TEFL teacher but am not sure if i should get a TEFL certificate first, if so which one to get or whether i should just start applying for jobs and hope my experience gets me somewhere...   Anyone any ideas?

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Hi guys,   Im looking for a short term post abroad. I hope to start a Post Grad in January but I'm at a loss till then. I've been searching the net for TEFL jobs but they all seem to be 6months-1 year positions. Anyone know how I'd go about finding something till Christmas? Ideally I'd prefer a Spanish speaking country but at this stage I'd take anything!! Thanks! Laura

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It’s that time of year again… with hundreds of kids trotting off to school with new pencil cases and pinchy shoes. But not all classrooms are as traumatic as the ones you stepped into every September as a kid. In fact, increasing numbers of people are actually choosing to go back to school again, but this time as TEFL (teaching English as a foreign language) teachers in amazing places all around the world. Here’s why...

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Well I suppose it is time to write a new blog because if my mother mentions it to me one more time i’m going to ban her from skype.. That’s me been here for two and a half months and I would just like to say to those of you out there who thought I would have been home by now.. IN YOUR FACE!! I’ll admit that last week I had a wee wobble, I will also...

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I’m trying to think of interesting things that have happened since we last conversed…. I went through a week or two being skint because of my stupid bank account in Ireland.. They decided to cancel the card because they thought it was ‘weird’ that it was being used in Korea.. understandable if I hadn’t been in the bank a million times telling them that I was going to Korea and finding out if it would work here. When...

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Finally the course is begining to make sense! LOL   admitidly the 20hr extra grammar course is really doing my head in - who knew there were so many rules!   but getting there :) im now up to the first check point and then onto module 3 of the course :) whip-wooo!   got any hints and tips on the check point?

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OK!  So I'm back in Belgrade, Serbia!!!  Have been since the 29th of August.  Started a Serbian language course after reading that being in a language course could give me access to an extended stay permit over 90 days.  HOWEVER, the language course (and all of them that are Serbian for Foreigners) cannot give the proper documents to achieve such a thing, due to the way the Ministry of Education classifies them.. this put a...

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