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mdk
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 Posted: Sun Jun 10, 2007 12:07 am Post subject: Pamplona? Burgos? Leon? teaching independently |
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Last June I walked the Camino de Santiago (The Camino Frances actually) and then I went off to teach ESL in another country.
I would like to live a while somewhere along the camino and teach ESL, but I am just not a TEFL kind of guy. Is it possible to find a place where they will let me speak actual Spanish to the students? I have a TEFL, I just don't teach well in that straight jacket.
How about the possibility of just doing private lessons. I have enough income to live in Spain, and I am just looking for something to bring in a little pork chop money and keep off dull times. If I get a long term residency permit, can I legally give private lessons?
Fianlly, I am an RN and could probably teach medical terminology, anybody have an idea of whether that would fly around a Spanish med school?
Thanks,
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spiral78
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| Posted: Sun Jun 10, 2007 4:59 am Post subject: |
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| mdk, aren't you the U.S. citizen who's also posted on the general forum? How do you propose to get a long-term residency permit for Spain? I'd be quite interested if you actually know some legal route to do this. Perhpas you're married to an EU citizen? |
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mdk
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| Posted: Sun Jun 10, 2007 2:41 pm Post subject: |
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Well, all I really know is what I googled from the Spanish consulate web site. It looks from that information that you can get one for a given region. For example if you want to work in Leon.
I think in general they are looking for people who can either (A) support themselves independently or (B) contribute a skill they need. I think I can meet either criteria in one way or another. If nothing else I can go over for 90 days and hang out while I find an immigration lawyer. Isn't that what the Russians do 
What the hey, I knew people in Barcelona who had been illegal for five years there. I can manage a few sessions of 90 day stays with the odd trip out of the EU to get my passport restamped - so it shouldn't be necessary to offend anyone while I get it sorted out.
I could be wrong, but nobody in, say, Astorga is likely to object to a gringo living quietly and giving a few English lessons on the side as far as I could tell. |
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spiral78
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| Posted: Sun Jun 10, 2007 3:04 pm Post subject: |
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| Good luck. |
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jonniboy
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| Posted: Sun Jun 10, 2007 8:26 pm Post subject: |
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| mdk wrote: |
| I knew people in Barcelona who had been illegal for five years there. I can manage a few sessions of 90 day stays with the odd trip out of the EU to get my passport restamped - so it shouldn't be necessary to offend anyone while I get it sorted out. |
It's not as simple as just flying out of the EU for a few days. Under the Schengen agreement, you can only stay a maximum of 90 days out of every 180.
In practice though I doubt there'd be much problem if you hung around for a while trying to get yourself legalised. If you have a foreign income from pensions etc then I'm fairly sure that would be a big help in achieving a longer term visa. Good luck. |
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mdk
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Thanks fellas, I am sure there is a way to pull it off.
Are you sure the Schwengen agreement says that? I guess I could orbit between Russia and Spain while I worked it out. I found Moscow a bit priggish and upmarket last winter, but I'm sure I could find a nice place to pass 90 days.
It turns out that I can make almost $13K before it eats into my Social Security benefits, so that I was sort of planning to come back to the states for about 90 days out of every year anyhow. So I may just sort of orbit around, who knows?
Interesting side light. When I entered at CDG, they never even checked my passport so I was running around Spain all that time with no entry stamp. Go figure.
By the way, I was reading up about Zaragosa earlier this evening, is anybody around with knowledge of that city? Sounded nice. |
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jonniboy
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| Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2007 8:42 am Post subject: |
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| mdk wrote: |
| Are you sure the Schwengen agreement says that? |
Yes positive see
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=schengen+agreement+90+days+180&meta=
It's deliberately set up in order to prevent people doing "visa shuffles."
I would look into it all though as your circumstances are different as you have a foreign income of sorts and that would probably enable you to stay longer. |
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mdk
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Thank you in Lat...It's "palzius" isn't it?
It's off thread and a bit far from Zaragosa, but how do you like Riga? I spent a weekend there once. Would they welcoms somebody on a 3 month summer contract possibly? How hard might it be to get "privates", say 2-3 per average day? |
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jonniboy
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| mdk wrote: |
Thank you in Lat...It's "palzius" isn't it?
It's off thread and a bit far from Zaragosa, but how do you like Riga? I spent a weekend there once. Would they welcoms somebody on a 3 month summer contract possibly? How hard might it be to get "privates", say 2-3 per average day? |
Almost... it's paldies pronounced pal-dee-ez.  As for Riga vs Zaragoza, well I was working down the coast from Zaragoza, in Valencia before I came here so I can give you a comparison. Lifestyle wise Spain is far better, the winters here can get a bit tedious sometimes but it's been 30 degrees outside this week. Compared to the Spanish the people here can be a bit distant and standoffish sometimes.
Workwise though it's been a dream. Unlike Valencia, no classes full of snotty kids or idiotic teens. The students are generally well motivated because they need it for their work. Best of all, unlike Spain, I'm a big fish in a small pond here and thus privates are easy to come by as there's little competition. To give you an idea, in May I had 12 hours of English privates plus three hours of Spanish privates in addition to 11 hours in academies. I have considered going totally private but have kept a few hours in academies for a bit of stability and variety.
Visawise I have been told that it's much easier to get a visa here than in Spain as they need the workers due to outmigration. My information is out of date but at the end of 2005, one French acquaintance told me that they gave him 1 month for every 100 lats of savings. (1 Lat = 2 USD and then 100 lats was the monthly minimum wage.) Could be worth checking out. Plus if you speak Russian you'd have no difficulties getting around as about 95% of Rigans do.
Basically here, as with Spain, the government doesn't really care much provided people have the means to support themselves and aren't doing anything illegal. |
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mdk
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| Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2007 9:52 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks, Jonniboy.
Valencia seemed a very nice place. I stayed a couple of weeks there.
A little note on speaking Russian in Latvia. It is quite true that many people speak Russian there, but due to some unfortunate recent history (of which I'm sure you have been made aware) I found it better to ask in Russian if somebody spoke English. I look enough like a Russian (though I'm Scots-Irish ) that people frequently would ask me for directions on the street in Moscow. I just found I got bigger smiles from Lats if I would use that approach. |
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