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dagi · Joined: 01 Jan 2004 Posts: 425

Someone asked where I wanted to go. Well, I've been in contact with a school in Turkey and they told me to apply in sept/oct and if they have a position available will then consider my application. The school would be in Istanbul and the job's just a dream, mainly because they employ German language teachers which is what I am studying for. As I am not a native speaker of English, China would be my second option. Been there before and quite liked it.

Weona · Joined: 11 Apr 2004 Posts: 166 Location: Chile

Go abroad! Go! Teach! Seriously... statistics show that you're more likely to meet a partner abroad than at home. At least that's how it was with me. And yes, it had a lot to do with an exotic white girl being in a country with a predominantly dark-skinned population which made men naturally drawn to me (you will know which ones to weed out and which ones actually want to get to know you for YOU).... but if you're careful you will meet him.

So yeah, in my personal experience, I would say that you have better odds at meeting someone and making a family elsewhere. If anything though... don't think 30 is old. I wouldn't settle down just yet. Go and have fun for a while before thinking of mister right. And then eventually... he'll just magically appear. They usually do when you least expect it.

I'm not a guidance counselor, spiritual adviser, or fortune teller.... I promise.

leby26 · Joined: 30 Jan 2004 Posts: 68

I'm a newbie too, and when I tell people about my plans about living abroad most of their reactions are either laughter, disbelief (laughter out of disbelief - 'o you silly girl'), and a lot of them ask when I plan to 'get a husband during all of this' which always makes me laugh (again, laughter out of disbelief). To some extent it worries me mainly b/c marriage is so equated with 'settling down', something I don't plan on doing for a while (in any capacity), so I can see it being difficult establishing relationships in my haphazard plans - but to be honest, I would rather spend my life with someone who wants to explore and dream as much as I do or someone from another culture who can teach me more than I could ever know on my own than give up my dreams and stick around my hometown waiting for some elusive 'mr right'! You meet the person you love when you love life on your own and are ready to share it with someone wonderful - follow your own dreams and plans and you'll meet him/her along the way - don't think too much, just trust it Wink

Aramas · Posted: Wed Apr 28, 2004 2:13 am Post subject:

I haven't even told my family. I'll send them a postcard Smile

Eijse · Joined: 17 Dec 2003 Posts: 119 Location: Yemen (Aden)

hesterprynne · Joined: 16 Sep 2003 Posts: 386

[quote]hesterprynne wrote:
But a year abroad as a teacher probably won't make a difference one way or the other. Five years would.

Why do you think this?[/quote]
JOE GAHONA- statistics and fertility charts- there are certain ages when your chances of becoming pregnant take a big dip

shmooj · Joined: 11 Sep 2003 Posts: 1758 Location: Seoul, ROK

justcolleen · Joined: 07 Jan 2004 Posts: 654 Location: Egypt, baby!

Alitas · Joined: 19 May 2003 Posts: 187 Location: Maine

There's three rules about lovin' abroad (and I am talking locals).

1. Your beloved has the same level of education as you.

2. Your beloved has the same amount of dough in the bank as you, even if it is local currency. You have $500, he has 500 pesos.

3. Your beloved has access to a visa to live somewhere other than his own country and that access is not through you. (Eliminates the jumpers).

(These three rules came from a wise man named Hillbilly, from the DR1.com board. That place is inundated with posts from tourists who have met their "true love" and then later posts about how they were burned, or how things worked out. Different scenario, I know, but I felt these were valuable to post.)

Maybe this will help as you go on your discerning way.

Aramas · Posted: Thu Apr 29, 2004 3:13 am Post subject:

khmerhit · Posted: Thu Apr 29, 2004 6:38 am Post subject:

Let me guess, Aramas, you're an Essex lad. Correct?

No, you're nt even a pom, are you? Yes you are, from Newcastle or somewheres.

I met a guy like you in Cambodia--working class Londoner with a spot of education, MA in fact. he went back to blighty to get his ma and returned to cambodia to mary his local gorlfriend. most interestin guy, but working class thru and thru.

Edyacatiuon is a funny thing, innnit?

Aramas · Posted: Thu Apr 29, 2004 4:45 pm Post subject:

lol - close. That's Newcastle in Australia. 'Working class' has a different meaning here. My mother was from Melbourne and terribly bourgeois - she even had elocution at school - lol. I take after her. Fortunately my parents were divorced when I was young. My father then married a rather bovine country girl who can even spell her own name on a good day - if she mouthes the words. My brother is certainly not the sharpest tool in the shed, and is a constant reminder of what can happen if you breed with someone posessing the intellectual prowess of a shiny pebble.

I spent summers with my mother in Sydney, and it was a refreshing change to spend time with her friends, among whom were writers, musicians, film directors, IT people etc. In the 70's she travelled overland to the UK with her Rhodesian ex-mercenary boyfriend. Her adventures formed an interesting counterpoint to my mundane suburban upbringing.

When she died she was the managing editor of a Sydney publishing company and three months from completing her Ph.D.

So it would be inaccurate of me to claim that I was 'working class through and through'. It would perhaps be fair to say that I have been exposed to a working class environment and found it somewhat tedious Smile

khmerhit · Posted: Thu Apr 29, 2004 9:11 pm Post subject:

good post. I like Australia. i think I'll emigrate. North america is just too dumbed down.

Aramas · Posted: Fri Apr 30, 2004 3:16 am Post subject:

You better hop on the next plane then, and when you get here don't talk to anyone under thirty. These days we're just an insignificant US territory with a third rate popularist, suburban culture.

clarus · Posted: Tue May 18, 2004 12:25 pm Post subject: still single and erm - loving it

I was glad to read your post, OP. I left South Africa in my early 20's, planning to work for a year and see a bit of the world, then go back and settle down like most of my middle-class uni grad friends. I am now in my late 20's, not any closer to settling down in any sense. My parents make gentle enquiries about my "social life" about as often as they remind me I still don't have a pension. I am really glad I'm not a late-twenties / thirty-something Taiwanese woman - my ex-flatmate told me that whenever she goes back to her hometown, the NEIGHBOURS all want to know if she has a boyfriend yet!