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dajiang · Joined: 13 May 2004 Posts: 663 Location: Guilin!

I wanna go everywhere!
Have only worked in China as yet, but I'm planning to go to many more places.
That's one of the great things in ESL, the world is at your feet.

I've been doing tourleading as well, but that's more or less season bound, and being on the road all the time kinda wears you down.
In teaching you can just stick around one place a bit, get somekind of social life going, stuff like that.

Few places on the list are: Spain, Japan, Indonesia, Chile or Peru, and Russia.

biffinbridge · Joined: 05 May 2003 Posts: 701 Location: Frank's Wild Years

England
Czech Republic
Poland
Qatar
Libya (present)

sigmoid · Joined: 21 Jan 2003 Posts: 1276

Thailand and Vietnam.

I enjoy hot weather and beaches, Buddhism and religious art, tonal languages and spicy food, and meeting Asian women.

jpvanderwerf2001 · Joined: 02 Oct 2003 Posts: 1117 Location: New York

Ukraine
Argentina
Mexico
India (currently)
I read/heard somewhere (USA Today?) that the world is really, really, quite big. Thought it would see some of it.
Word.

Deconstructor · Joined: 30 Dec 2003 Posts: 775 Location: Montreal

JZer · Joined: 16 Jan 2005 Posts: 3898 Location: Pittsburgh

Starglass1, I agree about picking some place where you find the people attractive. That is why I will be off to Brazil after I graduate in December. The only problem is I cannot stay long because I have college loans to pay off. I will only be able to stay in Brazil for one year. Then off to Asia for a while. This summer I will be teaching at an ESL Summer Camp in China for two months. I am currently taking Chinese so it should be interesting.

Stephen Jones · Joined: 21 Feb 2003 Posts: 4124

---"The best kept secret in the Middle East (though it's actually considered to be in Europe)."----

Who by? People who can't read a map presumably. It's bounded by Asian countries on all sides.

Deconstructor · Joined: 30 Dec 2003 Posts: 775 Location: Montreal

Stephen Jones · Joined: 21 Feb 2003 Posts: 4124

Who are Armenians considered a European people by?

And why do you say they speak a European language if their country is not in Europe? The language family is Indo-European, includes many Asian languages, and almost certainly originated in Asia.

mandu · Joined: 29 Jul 2004 Posts: 794 Location: china

new zealand
australia
japan
taiwan
korea
mainland china

Spinoza · Joined: 17 Oct 2004 Posts: 194 Location: Saudi Arabia

benno · Joined: 28 Jun 2004 Posts: 501 Location: Fake Mongolia

deezy · Posted: Sun Feb 20, 2005 12:27 pm Post subject:

Australia
America
England (London and Canterbury and 3 Summer schools)
France
and now China

I always fancied teaching in Italy, but you've put me off, now! Next choice would be Prague.

Cardinal Synn · Joined: 01 Nov 2004 Posts: 586

I've taught in:
Spain - Liked it enough but the cold winters in the north reminded me too much of home. The standard of driving did my head in.
Holland - Liked it a lot but the standard of weed did my head in.
Indonesia - love it. The standard of beautiful ladies does my head in.
UK - Too much of what I'm used to. The standard of crap weather did my head in.

zaneth · Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2005 3:54 pm Post subject:

volunteering in America.
Celta in Moscow.
6 months in Germany.
Several Years in Russia.

Originally wanted to hang out in a dirt road village in China till my student loans kicked in, then go to Taiwan to make a little money until I went home. Still haven't seen China.

Currently thinking about Vietnam or India or Syria or Saudi. Spirituality or money? Hmm...

dream: after student loans are paid retire to a little dirt road village in Burma. Or maybe one semester in a country like Russia working for subsistence. One semester working for bucks (America or ME). One semester living somewhere where there's no work and no need to work. Be a nice little round till I retire to that dirt road village in ...?