About two weeks ago, I took a field trip with a few other volunteers working in my school system. There are endless sites across the country that are deserving of a day’s attention (or more), but our field trip wasn’t for a photo safari. The administrators in charge of our (private) schools wer[...]
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
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[...]
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[...]
