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dfields3 · Joined: 14 Feb 2007 Posts: 29 Location: Atlanta

I have an interview with the Peace Corps next week in Atlanta. I think that i'm gonna be doing English teaching with them (got the certificate last year). Has anyone here ever done this and could someone tell me the difference between teaching under the umbrella of peace corps vs. going at it on my own and finding my own job. Not really which one is better but maybe just the differences (if any) between the two. Any info would be great.

john_n_carolina · Joined: 26 Feb 2006 Posts: 700 Location: n. carolina

...i'm a RPCV of Paraguay '94....i can't expand too much on this, because i didn't see my co-volunteers much after training. and, i was in Cooperative Development, not Teaching.

but, from what i saw a lot of the teaching was done in rural locations. small, washed-out, with a monkey-in-the-window and a cow by the door type school.

you probably won't be at an institute or colegio in a large city.

check out this site, they have hundreds of PC journals online:

http://www.peacecorpsjournals.com/

MELEE · Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 4:34 pm Post subject:

I suggest you repost this in the General Discussion Forum. There are quiet a few former Peace Corps Volunteers who post on Dave's but not in the Mexico Forum. You can certainly find a job on your own, the PC would give you certain benefits, some long term. So you'd want to weigh your options.

If you want information on Peace Corp like postings in rural Mexico, PM me and I can put you in contact with some schools in small Oaxacan towns where you'd likely be one of only a couple of foriegners.