First off, thanks Rob for the recent guest series on various volunteer and development opportunities. Your experiences and incites were concise and objective, great advice to the budding idealist in Latin America. While reading your entries and others on the site lately, I have been deeply consid[...]
Posts Tagged ‘teaching English’
November 29th, 2011 - 6:00 am § in Careers, Ecuador, Looking for Opportunity, Tips & Resources, Volunteer, Volunteer Spotlight
La Vida: Teaching English in Quito, Ecuador
Machismo Madness: Workplace Woes
For the month of July, La Vida Idealist has asked bloggers to write about their experiences with machismo. This is the sixth post in that series. I really lucked out with my English teaching job in Lima- my workplace had a modern culture, and many of my students were great people with interesting co[...]
Still Working for Codelco
A month ago, I was looking for work in Rancagua, Chile, for romantic reasons, when I found a plain looking advertisement in a job website. It was a job teaching English for nine months, at a good salary, with free board, and a bonus if I complete the time. A good deal, even though it [...][...]
Teaching English to Build Bridges
Yesterday was the first day in a long time that my job felt truly perfunctory. I teach a variety of English classes, all to white-collar professionals here in Lima. At the end of each month I give exams to my Langrow Institute groups, which means I spend a lot of hours simply watching people take [.[...]
March 24th, 2011 - 5:44 am § in Uncategorized
Living en Socialismo
Hi there, saludos to you all! My name is Lianne Gonsalves, and I’m recent college graduate completing a Fulbright grant in Caracas, Venezuela. A little about me: I was born and raised in North Carolina. I graduated from North Carolina State University in May 2010 with degrees in Biological Sci[...]
First, Do No Harm
There are roughly three stages of classroom interaction with a new group of students. First, the honeymoon period: a few precious weeks in which your students are in love with you. After that, the testing begins – exactly how much delinquency will be tolerated? Finally, if you can stay firm and co[...]
Cavorting Across the Cultural Divide
It’s been quite a momentous year for Chile, what with the earthquake, the inauguration of Sebastian Piñera (first right-wing leader since the dictatorship), their first World Cup in twelve years, and now, this September 18th, the two-hundredth anniversary of their independence. September 18th is [...]
