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Alicia
Joined: 12 Jun 2003
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Location: Australia
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 Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2003 12:44 am Post subject: Jobs in Oaxaca? |
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Hi,
Can any of you ESL gurus please help us out. We are in Oaxaca City and desperate to find work after the program we were working with turned out to be completely corrupt.
Does anyone know of any language schools where it might be possible to find work? Our internet search has yielded nothing! ANy advice at all would be greatly appreciated.
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dduck
Joined: 29 Jan 2003
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Location: In the middle
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The best advice I ever received was to look in the phonebook and phone round the schools. 
If you hang around of a bit MELEE will probably answer. She might be able to help you more as she works in Oaxaca.
Best o' luck.
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MELEE
Joined: 22 Jan 2003
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Location: The Mexican Hinterland
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Hi Alicia and other readers,
I've been in touch with Alicia but she hasn't gotten back to me  .
There actually seems to be a dirth of qualified teachers in Oaxaca at the moment. Not just average English speaking people who want to live and work in Mexico, but honest to god qualified and experienced teachers.
In Oaxaca City there are any number of language schools, look in the phone book, look in the Noticias news paper, but most importantly ask around. In Oaxaca things work by word of mouth--ask at the place you are staying, as the waiter who serves you, ask the guy who sells you the newspaper, ask the taxi driver, as the museum guard, ask everybody--I'm an English teacher, do you know of any English schools?
Good Luck, if you want to get out of the City--contact me ASAP
cheers, |
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lozwich
Joined: 25 May 2003
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| Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2003 4:38 pm Post subject: ask everybody! |
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| most importantly ask around. In Oaxaca things work by word of mouth--ask at the place you are staying, as the waiter who serves you, ask the guy who sells you the newspaper, ask the taxi driver, as the museum guard, ask everybody |
I can back this up, with a couple of experiences I've had in the last few weeks. Some people who I got talking to after they asked to borrow my Lonely Planet while I was loitering out the front of a museum in GDL have turned into good contacts for Oaxaca City.
Now that I'm looking for an apartment, one of the places I have been told to go ask is at "that Farmacia on the corner of Morelos".
Okay... but it all seems to work!  |
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