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roseyposey
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 Posted: Mon Apr 01, 2013 3:33 pm Post subject: Women Traveling Alone |
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Hello lady travelers!
I've done board searches and haven't found any relating to women travel. Has anyone gone abroad to teach solo, or plans to do so? I've wanted to go abroad to teach for years but I've been held back out of fear being a young woman traveling alone, unable to find a travel partner who wants to up and leave for another country.
Any travel buddies out there? lol. Would love to hear your gals experiences. |
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spiral78
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France is more about your passport/country of origin than your gender. If you're from the UK, you're in. If not, France isn't a legal option anyway.
And of course there are thousands of female teachers on their own around.  |
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roseyposey
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| spiral78 wrote: |
France is more about your passport/country of origin than your gender. If you're from the UK, you're in. If not, France isn't a legal option anyway.
And of course there are thousands of female teachers on their own around. |
Yes you're very right, the bigger issue is definitely the fact that as an American it will be next to impossible to find a teaching post in France :/ |
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spiral78
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| Unless you marry an EU member citizen, it's not next to, it is basically impossible. Might be some sort of work/study deal through a legit university, but you'll be unlikely to make any money. |
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PeterBar
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I tried to post this yesterday, but my system had crashed:-
Spiral and I have set up a "meet your future partner site " for Americans, Canadians and Australians who want to work in the EU.
Check out www.eu-meetandmore.eu
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Xie Lin
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| Posted: Tue Apr 02, 2013 1:07 pm Post subject: Re: Women Traveling Alone |
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| roseyposey wrote: |
. . . I've wanted to go abroad to teach for years but I've been held back out of fear being a young woman traveling alone . . .
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You're afraid of traveling alone? In France? Seriously? If you can't get over that, then TEFL really, really is not for you. Those whose anxieties loom larger than their sense of adventure will be miserable.
I'd suggest that you just take the plunge and try it out. Later in life we tend to regret the things we did not do (and wanted to) much more than the things we did. Common sense and reasonable caution are enough to keep you safe in most instances. And those rare instances when they are not enough are just as likely to occur in your home country as in most countries abroad. Including France! 
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