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mysterytrain
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I've seen ads (well, the same one, repeated) on the IJB here for volunteers to teach refugees in Western Myanmar (similar to a Peace Corps type post, but shorter-term). I believe they offer some kind of small monthly stipend, as well as meals, housing (probably rudimentary) and maybe a spot of cash to get you there, but you'd definitely be doing basically "pro bono" work and it would surely be remote enough.
You might consider a normal EFL gig in Xinjiang (PRC) or Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbek, etc. It's a far cry from Saigon or Hanoi.
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mysterytrain
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| Posted: Sat Nov 01, 2014 10:28 am Post subject: |
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Nowadays it is very unlikely that you will find a place to teach that is off the beaten track. I would try Papua New Guinea...it is definitely an exotic location and is rather off the beaten EFL backpacker track if that is what you seek. Lots of isolated villages in the mountains and grest natural sceney. Just stay away from the cannibals....or you might become one!  |
There were some nice Dayak villages in Central Borneo, but I hear they've been infiltrated by BACKPACKING EVIL KILLER KLOWNS from the KHAO SAN ROAD!  |
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cb400
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| Posted: Sat Nov 01, 2014 3:41 pm Post subject: |
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Off the beaten path? Some girls I worked with did a year in an African village, no electricty, no running water. That would be an experience? Countryside of Laos or Cambodia would feel pretty remote and the larger cities are just a bus ride away.
Nepal, Sri Lanka also would be cool.
Let us know what happens, |
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EFL Educator
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Papua New Guinea is looking for EFL teachers teachers who are interested in Off the Beaten Track volunteer teaching work. You will be teaching English to Highlanders (Formerly Cannibals). These modern day tribesmen can speak very basic English...they need to improve their English language skills so as to communicate with tourists as tour guides these days. This is definitely an "Off The Beaten Track" EFL opportunity!  |
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plumpy nut
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| Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2014 2:02 pm Post subject: |
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water rat
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Location: North Antarctica
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| Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2014 2:11 pm Post subject: |
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| Papua New Guinea is looking for EFL teachers teachers who are interested in Off the Beaten Track volunteer teaching work. You will be teaching English to Highlanders (Formerly Cannibals). These modern day tribesmen can speak very basic English...they need to improve their English language skills so as to communicate with tourists as tour guides these days. This is definitely an "Off The Beaten Track" EFL opportunity! |
Formerly cannibals? You mean until they found out what soylent green is really made out of? |
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plumpy nut
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| Posted: Mon Nov 10, 2014 5:03 am Post subject: |
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| You will be teaching English to Highlanders (Formerly Cannibals). |
In Papua their hasn't been cannibals for a long time. In Irian Jaya (West Papua) there still might be cannibals there, the area is still so primitive. |
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EFL Educator
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| Posted: Sun Nov 16, 2014 5:43 am Post subject: |
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| The Highlanders of Papua new Guinea (Formerly called Cannibals) call us EFL teachers "Long Pig". They will not eat us as we are seen as helping them...but I would not get into any confrontation with them...they may go back to their "old" ways!!!! |
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