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scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

Do I have any regrets that I spent so much of my adult life TEFLing in barbarous parts of the World ?

Too early to tell.

Alvi · Joined: 06 Jun 2010 Posts: 18 Location: USA

Guy Courchesne · Joined: 10 Mar 2003 Posts: 9650 Location: Mexico City

mozzar · Joined: 16 May 2009 Posts: 339 Location: France

Mexico? Is that an easy place to earn a living?

Guy Courchesne · Joined: 10 Mar 2003 Posts: 9650 Location: Mexico City

I wouldn't say easy to earn a good living. It takes work.

Alvi · Joined: 06 Jun 2010 Posts: 18 Location: USA

markcmc · Joined: 18 Jan 2010 Posts: 262 Location: Taiwan

Which parts were most barbarous?

TeresaLopez · Joined: 18 Apr 2010 Posts: 601 Location: Mexico City

You can, eventually, make a good living in lots of places in Mexico. I also have lived in Mexico City for many years, and make something between an OK and a good living. If you have a degree in Education, a TEFL certificate and 3 or 4 years experience you can do quite well, but you earn every penny (or peso, as it were) of it. Also, I think if you try to base your standard of living on how you would live in the States, you might not think so, for example, living in a trendy area, eating out a lot, coffee at Starbucks every day, etc., but if you live in a "normal" middle class neighborhood, and live like a middle class Mexican lives you can usually enjoy some perks you'd never have in the States (or UK, Australia, et el) like household help, fairly frequent vacations, things like that. I think you eat far better on far less money, much more fresh fruit and veggies for a fraction of what they'd cost in most other places.

Guy Courchesne · Joined: 10 Mar 2003 Posts: 9650 Location: Mexico City

I'll pretty much second what Teresa says...

austeacher · Joined: 24 Dec 2008 Posts: 91 Location: London

Cool title to your post! I have become acquainted with kicking against the pricks too. When the chips are down what else is left?

johnslat · Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2010 3:07 am Post subject:

Dear scot47,

Je ne regrette rien (thanks, Edith.)

From: http://lyricstranslate.com
No, nothing at all,
No, I don't regret anything!
Neither the good that's been done to me,
Nor the bad;
It's all the same to me!

No, nothing at all,
No, I don't regret anything!
It's been payed for,
swept (away),
Forgotten.
I don't care about the past!

With my memories
I have lit the fire!
My disappointments, my pleasures,
I no longer need them.
Swept away are the loves
with their trembling,
swept away forever!
I start again at zero.

No, nothing at all,
No, I don't regret anything!
Neither the good that's been done to me,
Nor the bad;
It's all the same to me!

From: http://lyricstranslate.com

If I regret the past, I can't enjoy or like the present.

Regards,
John

scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

Thanks to the Sage of Santa Fe

As I typed the original post I was thinking of Edith Piaf !

gaijinalways · Joined: 29 Nov 2005 Posts: 2279

Regrets? Too few to mention. Cool

jules128 · Joined: 28 Apr 2006 Posts: 10 Location: Maryland

it's always the things I didn't do that I regret the most.