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ghost
Joined: 30 Jan 2003
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Location: Saudi Arabia
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 Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 6:33 pm Post subject: response |
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You may find that you're a bit over qualified for Indo, certainly around Bandung there aren't many schools that could adequatly compensate you -ghost is ,after all , qualified up the whazzoo.
A couple of km out of town, where most of the teachers live, would be great running territory and i'm sure you'd encounter no resentment towards your tanktop, you could even suck a beer while you ran.
Hope you don't actually speak in the third person, that would be truly irritating. |
Thanks for the feedback. Yes - ghost has the paper qualifications...but at the end of the day in teaching, the most important quality is adapting to your teaching audience and gearing lessons toward their needs....and some `backpackers` have at times surpassed `qualified` teachers (like ghost) in that department.
Ghost has found that almost all the nice `locales` for teaching pay poorly in general (and that includes places in Central and South America, and some of the South East Asian countries)....and that the places where the pay is good (Korea/Taiwan/Gulf countries) - the lifestyle in those latter places leave a lot to be desired...whether it be in the basic indifference of the locals to you (Korea/Taiwan) to outright hatred of foreigners in some areas (sometimes in Saudi Arabia).
Although ghost has not yet visited Indonesia, everytime time it looks at photos of the place it is reminded of the Philippines (a place where ghost goes to frequently for r & r when teaching in Taiwan)...both in the general scenery and the general buzz of the place....and although ghost realizes that there are fundamental differences in the culture between Indo. and the Philippines, one can also guess that there are quite a few similarities as well......and that is what is intriguing about Indonesia, in addition to the fact that although (on paper) it (Indonesia) is the largest Islamic country in the world with the most worshippers of ``Allah`` one gets the feeling that most Indonesians (bar a few areas where a type of fundamentalism is practiced....Aceh?) practice a `moderate` form of Islam, and that (in ghost`s book) is a much more healthy approach to religion, and one in which future `bules` like ghost will be able to adapt to much more comfortably.
Ghost, Certified ESL/FSL sub. teacher, Montreal French school board |
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