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TBone
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 Posted: Mon Apr 19, 2004 4:17 pm Post subject: Surfing and Teaching: Whats the ideal for South America? |
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I like the idea of a nice warm climate to escape to from Dublin. I know that it is time for me to perfect a new language and ideally would like to situate myself somewhere for two or three years, learn the language and find some decent surf spots.
Since I know that decent surf spots don't always grow in city's I am looking for a sizeable enough city with some decent surf nearby. the problem is that i don't want to get trapped in a terrible slave-wage school just because it is located near the perfect tube for 280 days a year.
so if anyone can recommend a city that has more than 10 language schools and tends to cater to the flip flop crowd, could you please throw some advice my way!
Thanks
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ls650
Joined: 10 May 2003
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Location: British Columbia
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| Posted: Tue Apr 20, 2004 9:33 am Post subject: Re: Surfing and Teaching: Whats the ideal for South America |
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So you want to know where paradise is, eh?
Now if anyone really knew such a spot, do you think they'd be foolish enough to tell anyone and bring in the competition?!? |
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TBone
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| I saw what was posted as your location and I have been to a bit south of there before. it is as close to paradise as I have been! Are you trying to tell me something? how are the wages there? |
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Guy Courchesne
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| Posted: Fri Apr 23, 2004 5:22 am Post subject: Chile |
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Apparently, there is some awesome surf in Chile, around Valparaiso and Vina del Mar. Not much for teaching jobs there though. If you went to Santiago to teach, you would be 2-3 hours from the coast.
Oaxaca, Mexico has great surf too, but nothing for a teaching job within 5 hours rickety bus trip to the waves. |
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ls650
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| Posted: Fri Apr 23, 2004 8:25 am Post subject: |
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| TBone wrote: |
| I saw what was posted as your location and I have been to a bit south of there before. it is as close to paradise as I have been! Are you trying to tell me something? how are the wages there? |
There is little in the way of good surf outside of Bali. One of my fellow teachers here in Jakarta is a huge fan of surfing. He's been trying for a few months to line up a teaching job anywhere he can on Bali and despite having 3 years of teaching experience is having zero success. |
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