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[WhisperTrail]

This is the last part in a series covering a TEFL career. Ken is a friend of mine who lives in Uruguay.

Ken has written this series for my blog over the course of the past year. I know many of you have already read and responded to the previous segments. He even made an important contact through one of them.

I hope you enjoy the last chapter

-Sand

[Serious_Fun]

[Justin Trullinger]

Second that. I'm not criticising your friend, you understand. Nothing wrong with spending some time in one work area while hoping to get into another.

But the idea that this is what a EFL career IS; well, if I spent a couple of years as a low end short order cook in a major urban area (which I did), if I obtained, in that time, some very basic qualifications in food preparationg, and eventually moved on to something else entirely, I could write about having "graduated from the restaurant industry?" Fine, but if I did, others in that industry could be pardoned for not taking me too seriously.

Likewise.

And your friend, apparently, could have moved "up" a lot sooner if he hadn't been so incomprehensibly lazy about the language. Four years to learn the language? To a reasonable standard where he still needs to work in English most of the day?? Come on! If his students didn't do better that this, it's a good thing he's moving out of teaching.

Best,
Justin

[nickpellatt]

[quote="Serious_Fun"]

The blog is a rather dull look at the experiences of a so-called "backpacker teacher".

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There are great blogs out there about new teachers/new countries/new loves/new experiences/new cultures. This isnt one of them. Its just a little dull, and I dont really understand why its been written?