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RyanE · Joined: 07 Nov 2003 Posts: 2

Hey everyone,
I'm Ryan Estrada, artist animator and adventurer. Last year I started my world travels in Korea. I've decided to keep travelling and making art about the places I visit. Korea was an amazing experience, and in January, I'm going to head overseas again and this time I've got two friends coming with me.
I'm looking for another good starter country. I don't want to lead my friends into a negative first experience, but I also want a fresh adventure. I want to wean them into it so that next time I can go anywhere. Does anyone have any suggestions for a good, friendly, safe country that pays a decent wage, and has paid airfare and accomodations like Korea?
I've been reading all the other boards, and getting a lot of great info, just wondering if anyone has a suggestion.

Ryan
www.ryanestrada.com

donfan · Joined: 31 Aug 2003 Posts: 217

Most jobs in Taiwan don't usually pay the airfare but I thoroughly recommend it as a good starting country. Russia is also a good starter if you are more interested in Europe. Most language schools in Russia will reimburse you for the airfare. Usually half after a couple of months and the rest after you have finished the contract. The wage isn't great but I still managed to save half of it every month.

Stephen Jones · Joined: 21 Feb 2003 Posts: 4124

Iraq is particularly welcoming to westerners at the moment.

You could also try the Democratic Republic of the Congo, near the Rwanda border. Remember to carrry gold chains around with you visibly so the locals know you are resoectable.

fluffhead · Joined: 20 May 2003 Posts: 21

ohman · Joined: 09 Sep 2003 Posts: 239 Location: B' Um Fouk, Egypt

Hialeah, Florida.

johnslat · Posted: Fri Nov 07, 2003 10:04 pm Post subject: Higher Leer

Dear ohman,
OK - suggesting Iraq, the DRC, the southern Phillipines and Columbia was bad enough. But pointing someone towards Hialeah, Florida - well, that's beyond the pale. In fact your posting, by itself, might be enough to get you indicted for reckless endangerment.
Regards,
John - who (AAARRRRGGGHHHHH) KNOWS Hialeah

ohman · Joined: 09 Sep 2003 Posts: 239 Location: B' Um Fouk, Egypt

John,
You wouldn't happen to be a veteran of the English Center, part of the Dade County School System's adult ed program, would you? At the time I taught there, the cash crop of students were Somazatista refugees.

I have to add another exotic land not too far from Hialeah. If you wish to experience the sultry, laid back Haitian Creole culture, try Liberty City.

johnslat · Posted: Fri Nov 07, 2003 10:44 pm Post subject:

Dear ohman,
Nope - but I was doing even more hazardous duty there, way back in the early 70s, when I was still bumming around before going back to university: working for an outfit called the Private Postal System. We had to go around on foot and hang packets from people's doorknobs. Ah Hialeah - land of the junked cars in the front yards, up on blocks and with old George Wallace stickers still attached to the bumpers; land of ferocious canines, where even the German Shepherds needed to be escorted by pit bulls; land where I constantly carried an iron rod in one hand and a full can of Mace in the other. I still occasionally wake up screaming.
Regards,
John
P.S. Is your new "tag line":

" "And so we teach on, rote drills again are current, bored ceaselessly by the simple past."

a highly adapted version of the last line of "The Great Gatsby"

"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."

Ah Gatsby! Ah Fitzgerald!

ohman · Joined: 09 Sep 2003 Posts: 239 Location: B' Um Fouk, Egypt

Yes John,

I was tooling around with Gatsby's last line today. I'm on a delayed visa wait, wait, wait. . . lightly tethered to reality.

RyanE · Joined: 07 Nov 2003 Posts: 2

I tried talkin them into Iraq. "But it's the NEW Iraq," I said "It's like friggin Disney World." They didn't bite.

Ryan