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furiousmilksheikali · Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2007 2:42 am Post subject:

3 countries. I don't hold the record. Sorry for the digression, but would Taiwan and mainland China count as one or two?

John Hall · Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2007 2:49 am Post subject:

According to the mainland Chinese, only one of course.

japanman · Joined: 24 Nov 2005 Posts: 281 Location: England

For me taught in two, Thailand and Japan, worked in America but not as a teacher and sort of lived in India. Sort of in the fact that I was there learning about music but I didn't work.

Kent F. Kruhoeffer · Joined: 22 Jan 2003 Posts: 2129 Location: 中国

8

Germany
Romania
Russia
Turkey
Philippines
Korea
Japan
Thailand

And please note that the luggage matches my avatar.

The Master Index Thailand @ Dave's ESL Cafe

globalnomad2 · Joined: 23 Jul 2005 Posts: 562

Lived in the following countries (outside my home country, US) for a total of 32 years. I define "lived in" as more than six months:

Netherlands
Belgium
Northern Ireland
Germany
Luxembourg
Italy
Malaysia
Japan
Saudi Arabia
UAE

Have taught EFL in the last four.

Van Norden · Joined: 23 Oct 2004 Posts: 409

What about Molvania, Phaic Tan and San Sombrero? Do they count?
http://www.molvania.com/

Gordon · Joined: 28 Jan 2003 Posts: 5309 Location: Japan

Just 3 for me over 12 years. Korea, Canada and Japan. About 16 or 17 employers in that time period.

guty · Joined: 10 Apr 2003 Posts: 365 Location: on holiday

EFL related in
Spain
England (+ Wales, is that 2?)
Czechoslovakia (+ Czech Republic, is that 2 too?)
Switzerland
Hong Kong (when it was a UK colony, so is that -1?)
Taiwan (is it part of China, so same as Hong Kong?)
Japan
Australia
New Zealand
Qatar
Saudi Arabia
Mexico

And I am now living and working, not in EFL, 17 miles from where I was born. Long journey to get that far!

billybuzz · Joined: 05 Jan 2006 Posts: 219 Location: turkey

Does the number of places or countries a person has worked in suggest that he or she has a lot of global experience in what they do or is it more of a case that they may have such serious personal issues that they HAD to leave these countries .
Personally if I saw someone with such an extensive work cv I would be very wary of ever employing them . Hardly inspires loyalty,perhaps some people think differently but a great worker is no good to anyone if he or she are here and gone in less than a fortnight . And after such a short time (less than a year) what real experience do they have anyway ?

guty · Joined: 10 Apr 2003 Posts: 365 Location: on holiday

In my case there are so many locations because I started doing EFL at 21 as a means to travel and see different countries, not as a career, and there aren't many better jobs for doing that. Did the first 7 in the first 5 years.

After that settled down, 6 years in the same place, got a bit more serious about EFL, and did an MA, which led to a couple of stints in the gulf trying to make some money and catch up financially on the time that I had spent basically travelling.

Having got that out of my system, I am now happy back in my own country where I have been in the same job for a while.

Billy I think you are right that my c.v doesnt make me look like I'll stay a long time, but I never broke a contract, and I never said I would stay for ages. I don't know how old you are, but a years in your 20s seems a lot longer than one in your 40s.

I think I knew I would settle down one day, and I didn't want to have any regrets about where I didn't go.

But each to their own.

John Hall · Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2007 6:18 pm Post subject:

Stephen Jones · Joined: 21 Feb 2003 Posts: 4124

JosephP · Joined: 13 May 2003 Posts: 445

I've taught in...
Taiwan
Korea
Malaysia
Thailand
Hawai'i (a lovely former kingdom now part of the USA) Smile

New Zealand

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

5
Ukraine
Mexico
Argentina
India
Russia

John Hall · Posted: Fri Apr 27, 2007 2:48 am Post subject: