I knew I was doing too much. I just quit my day job July 30, 2012 - I didn't like it any longer anyway- to free up time for my full time TESOL Certification at UCSB in Santa Barbara.
I had failed my grammar course the Language Analysis class and was taking it with i-to-i and ran out of hours so I paid for an additional 30 days.......now that has run out....
I am so frustrated because I have three finals due by August 10th and this course that I ran out of time on!!!
I just want to start teaching in Italy if I can pull it off but cannot until I get my certification.
Now I fear I will have to repay for the whole course again and take the whole thing again because it may not let me continue where I left of on Module #5.
Talk about the stress involved for getting all my course work done while I was working full-time. It became impossible for me to do both. One had to go. So I highly recommend people not working a full-time job and doing on-line class and a full - time load of classes in the intensive course work at a university like I am doing.
Ah, the price I pay to change the course of my life's direction into teaching. I still think it's worth it. Imagine the whole world at your fingertips for immersion into other countries.
Oh well...this is just a little set back. I can do it and you can too if you are in the same situation as I am. Just breath!
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I'm afraid that unless you have a passport from an EU member state, or are married to an EU citizen or are in possession of a valid work/study visa (NOT a tourist visa), you will not find legal work in Western Europe.
As a non-EU citizen you enter Europe on a Schengen visa which gives you 90 days in the zone (Google to find which countries are in the zone) and then you have to leave for a further 90 days. Note that the Schengen visa is a tourist visa and that you cannot work on it. Failure to comply with the rules will see you being deported and subjected to an exclusion from the entire zone for around five years.
It's not a risk I'd be prepared to take, but everyone's different. Nonetheless, it's important to understand that unless you meet the criteria set out in the first paragraph or are exceptionally highly-qualified and able to fulfil a need that no Eu citizen can (which is unlikely), there is no way of working legally in Europe. It's exactly the same for Europeans wishing to work in the States.
No. However I have a friend in Milan that can possibly set me up. That is what happened to a collegue of mine. She is now living in Spain with her boyfriend and teaching EFL in Barcelona. So for me it is possible to do the same but in Italy.
did you find a school in Italy that doesn't require an EU passport?
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