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[Cheza]

Hey, I'm a new teacher, recently got my TEFL certificate from a reputable language school, and I have some experience as a volunteer ESL teacher in several highschools (in CR), as well as volunteer ESL work for a local community college here in the US. I have also lived on four continents, so travel and culture shock are nothing new to me, plus I speak fluent spanish.
Anyway, I will be moving back to Costa Rica later this year, possibly as early as mid september. My schedule is very flexible and I wanted to get advice on when would be a good time to head for CR to look for a job, and what should I expect, especially being somebody who has no college education, but very determined to work and live in CR.
Any and all advice would be very appreciated.
-Cheza

[ThePeatMan]

You might want to come down with some reserve funds, since if you end up working for a company that teaches onsite at businesses, it can take a month or two before you prove yourself reliable and get a decent number of hours. Other than that, you should also be warned that the whole country takes a vacation for two weeks in December, so apparently it's kind of a forced vacation for teachers as well. January is when classes pick up again, however, and I hear they go pretty strong through the summer. I've only been down here for about 3 months, so a lot of this is what I've heard gathered from talking with other teachers.

[John Hall]

Cheza,

Contact me by email at [email protected]

I can send you a list of schools (that's too long to post here) with their contact info and my own comments about what they are like to work for.

John Hall

[gnattie]

Saw your posting while doing some researching for a friend... could you also send me the list of schools that you mentioned? That would be lovely...
gnat
[email protected]

[John Hall]

Sure, be glad to.