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Hoi Shannon,

Een tijdje geleden dat ik actief was op i-to-i, maar even een update vanuit het zeer warme (bloedheet) Thailand. Goed drie weken geleden vertrokken vanuit Nederland, uiteraard met mijn certificaten van TEFL op zak. Alle check points in de basiscursus in 1x gehaald (ook wel veel tijd in gestoken). Op twee deelcursussen na (ik werd iets slordiger op het laatst tot mijn spijt) de rest wel in 1x gehaald. De cursus was pittiger dan ik dacht, maar dat is alleen maar goed. Met andere woroden, ik heb meer geleerd en het was zeker een leuke cursus! Ik kan het velen aanraden!
Drie weken rustig vakantie gehouden in Thailand en vanaf deze week moet er toch serieus naar een baan gezocht worden. Een paar dagen voor mijn vertrek heb ik een Thaise man leren kennen, die in Arnhem woont en hij is getrouwd met een Nederlandse. Hij heeft mij een telefoonnummer gegeven van zijn zus, die nog in Chiang Mai woont en werkt. Die bel ik vandaag om een afspraak te maken. Zij probeert mij ook te helpen met een woning en werk zover dat mogelijk is.
Hoe is het verder in Engeland of zit je alweer in Nederland?
Succes in ieder geval met de studie!

Groeten,
Niels

Thanks for the post Shannon - Just China and Japan mostly..

Hi to everyone taking the course, tip..do one module at a time do not skip modules...purchase "ESSENTIAL TEFL" from i-to-i worth it's weight in gold! and will be a great help when you do pass for lesson planning and reference, just get it lol, I passed my 140 hr TEFL last year.

Listen to the module markers, and when you get a module question etc wrong take there advise on the feedback, do not get upset!

Tip.before you submit a module to your marker/tutor paste it and do a "spell-check" then copy paste it back on your test sheet with correct spelling... thank god I had (spill-Chick) on my pc lol ha ha we all make typos, but not good so submit them to your TEFL tutor!!!

My feelings are not to go on interships but just go for the TEFL course get your certificates then get paid for teaching it is your future, Asia etc is booming the west is crumbling!!!

Good luck...take advise.

Ray

hei shannon, thanks for the add. can you help me to find any internship for only 3 months?

Hi Shannon,
Thanks so much for your message, it made me feel really welcome in the TEFL community :)
Have a great night!
Tori

Hello. I hope you are well... I am Ray I past my 140 TEFL course some time ago, I also have two BA-degrees one in History and the other in Geography, I have come to a crossroads in life to teach in China or Vietnam, but my real intensions are yo set up my own teaching school in Vietnam or Thailand, My surname is London yes it really is lol.... so I would use a play on words and call my teaching school, (The London school of English) I think that speaks volumes, I have thought hard about this and have friends who are vietnamise and they live in the UK but are leaving to go back to Vietnam as they have had enough of running a business in the UK, it is always best to keep in with people who live in said countries plus they are my long term friends also and trusted!! I have lived in Hong Kong and on a part time bases was teaching English there, super fun.

So if anybody has the ambition and thinks rather than trying to get teaching jobs and being under onther people, maybe just maybe you would like to talk to me and join up with me as a fellow teacher!!... I am honest and open, I am not money orientated just want to be happy out of the uk and teach and be warm "simple" there is a massive demand for "good" small schools in Vietnam etc, if run correctly and run as a business also. I hope to be going there to look about around February as a path finder one could say, I live In Norwich Norfolk UK

Kind Regards from Ray

As i am very new to the site I have replied to you...on my wall! If you have time, check it out :)

Sam

I am from Dungarvan :)

Hey shannon the course is going good, onto chexkpoint three, tricky enough but i will keep you posted

Hi I actually do have a question!!

I'm really confused about the application that I'm supposed to fill out for the China Jan2011 trip...I don't know where to find it :s

Thanks :)

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