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Manaus
Joined: 15 Apr 2008
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Location: Orlando, FL
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 Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2008 2:46 am Post subject: Got married after/while teaching ESOL? |
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I was just wondering how many people met someone while teaching abroad and then got married. I'm a sucker for love stories...especially these kinds. I figured too that this must happen often.  |
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MELEE
Joined: 22 Jan 2003
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Location: The Mexican Hinterland
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| Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2008 2:48 pm Post subject: |
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I got married while teaching abroad.
On the Mexico Forum it seems like at least half of us are married to locals. Some met here (like me) but some got into EFL teaching because they married a Mexican. |
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naturegirl321
Joined: 04 May 2003
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Location: home sweet home
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I did too. And never planned on getting married. Came to Peru to finish learning Spanish becuase I wanted to adopt Romanian kids and teach them Spanish in China 
Been married two years, and in Peru for nearly four. Will be getting Peruvian citizenship in November. EMLEE; did you ever get Mexican citizenship? |
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novia
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Location: Canada
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| Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2008 8:15 pm Post subject: |
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| I met my husband in Canada while he was on a work exchange. I came to Chile twice and finally we got married here. Now I am teaching here. I would like to go home to Canada though. Maybe teach people Spanish. |
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Guy Courchesne
Joined: 10 Mar 2003
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Location: Mexico City
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| Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2008 10:43 pm Post subject: |
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| I married a Mexican woman withing the first year of arriving in Mexico. However, this love story doesn't have a good end as we ended up divorcing after 6 years. |
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Manaus
Joined: 15 Apr 2008
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Location: Orlando, FL
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| Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2008 3:03 am Post subject: Brazil |
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I met my husband while teaching in Brazil. However, we decided to begin our lives together in the U.S.
We'd like to go back to Brazil to live in the future - we just don't know when yet. |
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Prof.Gringo
Joined: 07 Nov 2006
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Location: Dang Cong San Viet Nam Quang Vinh Muon Nam!
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| Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 11:39 pm Post subject: |
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I married one of my students!!!  |
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Guy Courchesne
Joined: 10 Mar 2003
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Location: Mexico City
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| Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 1:36 am Post subject: |
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| Prof.Gringo wrote: |
| I married one of my students!!! |
I'm going to assume you stopped charging her for 'privates'?
Same thing for me.... |
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Manaus
Joined: 15 Apr 2008
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Location: Orlando, FL
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| Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 8:11 pm Post subject: hahahaha |
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| Guy Courchesne wrote: |
| Prof.Gringo wrote: |
| I married one of my students!!! |
I'm going to assume you stopped charging her for 'privates'?
Same thing for me.... |
My husband wasn't my student in Brazil, but he is now. I still teach ESL to adults part time and my husband studies at the same school. I work for Berlitz where their method includes rotating teachers on a constant basis. Consequently, I teach my husband's class once and awhile, but we're very professional about it. Everyone knows that we're married but we don't act like it in the classroom obviously. |
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Phil_K
Joined: 25 Jan 2007
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Location: A World of my Own
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| Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 9:55 pm Post subject: |
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| On the Mexico Forum it seems like at least half of us are married to locals. Some met here (like me) but some got into EFL teaching because they married a Mexican. |
I'm another of them!
I fit into the later category - 6 1/2 years in Mexico, and 5 1/2 years happily married. |
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Justin Trullinger
Joined: 28 Jan 2005
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Location: Seoul, South Korea and Myanmar for a bit
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| Posted: Mon May 05, 2008 2:03 pm Post subject: |
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Unmarried, but met my "significant other" on a TESOL course back when I was starting out.
Had NO IDEA it would still be going on this much later, but it is. Cool!
Best,
Justin |
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jpvanderwerf2001
Joined: 02 Oct 2003
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Location: New York
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| Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 2:40 am Post subject: |
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| Pulled a cliche' and married one of my female students here in Russia. So far, so good! |
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Prof.Gringo
Joined: 07 Nov 2006
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| Posted: Thu May 08, 2008 5:55 pm Post subject: |
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| jpvanderwerf2001 wrote: |
| Pulled a cliche' and married one of my female students here in Russia. So far, so good! |
Right on  |
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spiral78
Joined: 05 Apr 2004
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Location: On a Short Leash
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| Married a local who was neither a student nor a work colleague, after meeting through a sort of club. Still working well, eight years on. |
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