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copelan99
Joined: 02 Aug 2004
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Location: Seattle, WA, USA
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 Posted: Tue Aug 03, 2004 7:42 am Post subject: ESL Married Newbie |
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Hi
I am planning on a career change and would like to travel internationally. I am looking at teaching English and have several questions.
1)I will be traveling with my wife who is partially disabled and am concerned at getting quality healthcare and prescriptions. Any advice?
2)Because my wife may or may not be able to work part time, is it possible to support both of us on my salary? and what countries should I be looking at?
3)I will be looking for a temperate climate that doesn't get very hot. What countries are cooler?
Thank you for any advice that you can give. By the way, I plan to get my certification so any advice on specific schools (preferably in New Zealand) would be great. |
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Louis
Joined: 02 Jan 2004
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Location: Beautiful Taiyuan
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| Don't come to China, on all three counts. |
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PAULH
Joined: 28 Jan 2003
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Location: Western Japan
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| Posted: Tue Aug 03, 2004 12:54 pm Post subject: Re: ESL Married Newbie |
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| copelan99 wrote: |
1)I will be traveling with my wife who is partially disabled and am concerned at getting quality healthcare and prescriptions. Any advice?
2)Because my wife may or may not be able to work part time, is it possible to support both of us on my salary? and what countries should I be looking at?
3)I will be looking for a temperate climate that doesn't get very hot. What countries are cooler?
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Japan Korea Taiwan and Korea pay the best salaries.
Medical care is good in Japan but there may be exemptions on pre-existing conditions. National health is cheap in the first year but jumps 10-fold in the second year. Best to come with your own insurance but generally prescriptions treatment and such are more than satisfactory. A lot will depend on the level of disability.
IMO, pretty hard to support two people on one teachers salary in Japan, if you work at a conversation school.
As for climate, Kyushu in western Japan, or Taiwan? |
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lajzar
Joined: 09 Feb 2003
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Location: Saitama-ken, Japan
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Climate wise, avoid Taiwan. In Japan, avoid Tokyo and all points south. The BBC weather pages have some good information on climate. You can check a city and choose either a general climate overview or a 5 day forecast. That should help you narrow down your choice based on climate.
But Tokyo in summer is horribly sticky. |
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JosephP
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In Auckland you might want to try Edenz College in Newmarket. They offer the Trinity Certificate in TESOL. I'm not sure but I think there are schools in both Auckland and Wellington that offer the CELTA. Also all the universities and polytechnics offer some sort of TESL certification.
As far as places to work that can pay you enough money and accomodate her needs, gosh, I don't know. That's a tough one. Maybe Malaysia or Singapore might be an opportunity to investigate. I worked in Malaysia teaching English about eleven years ago and I found that it was fairly modern and accessible. Granted, the pink minibuses are excluded from that assessment. I haven't been there for awhile, but I bet the new rail system would make getting around KL much less of a hassle. |
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JosephP
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| Oops. I re-read your post and you did say you wanted something cooler. Scratch Malaysia and Singapore. |
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