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Tiger Beer
Joined: 07 Feb 2003
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 Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2006 8:09 am Post subject: BRAZIL - have you been there? |
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So many new posters online these days.. I taught English down there for six months a long time ago.. absolutely loved it!
Anyone else make it down there in the past? or anyone with plans to in the future? |
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Wangja
Joined: 17 May 2004
Location: Seoul, Yongsan
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| Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2006 3:13 pm Post subject: |
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Yes, I worked and lived there for the whole year 1983, with my then wife and two children. We lived in Belo Horizonte, the unatractive industrial city in (and capital of) Minas Gerais - a very attractive state. In this city of 3 million odd people, there were but 30 foreign familes.
Many tales to bore you all with ... where were you TB? |
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Tiger Beer
Joined: 07 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2006 6:31 pm Post subject: |
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| Wangja wrote: |
Yes, I worked and lived there for the whole year 1983, with my then wife and two children. We lived in Belo Horizonte, the unatractive industrial city in (and capital of) Minas Gerais - a very attractive state. In this city of 3 million odd people, there were but 30 foreign familes.
Many tales to bore you all with ... where were you TB? |
Belo Horizonte was one of those cities I really wanted to get to.
I was predominately in Sao Paulo (4 months).. and made a move to Rio De Jainero (2 months). For teaching english and living, I much preferred Sao Paulo to Rio.
Based on that thinking.. Sao Paulo was huge.. and I was eyeing Belo Horizone as a smaller alternative to SP. Mostly because I found SP/Belo inland areas less touristy, the Brazilians extremely foreigner-friendly without the tourist assumptions on you.
Outside of the teaching there.. also went to Curitiba, Iquazu Falls, Brasilia, and Salvador.
Unfortunately my tourist visa expired after 6 months of being in Brazil.. and I made the move on. |
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rapier
Joined: 16 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Tue Mar 21, 2006 2:36 am Post subject: |
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i assume you would need to speak Portuguese there...to work, etc.
Save much from your teaching gig? |
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Tiger Beer
Joined: 07 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Tue Mar 21, 2006 6:15 pm Post subject: |
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Same as in Korea.. even if you know Portuguese, you shouldn't use it in the classroom. Most jobs I know there are Business English (particularly in Sao Paulo), so definetely shouldn't be speaking Portuguese in the classroom.
Its not a country to accumulate savings. Probably more the opposite, if someone was to go, try to save beforehand for any unexpected surprises. |
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4 months left
Joined: 07 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Fri Mar 24, 2006 4:36 am Post subject: |
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Ahhh yes the anit-Korea. I spent 6 months in Sao Paulo teaching. The exact opposite of Korea in every way. Brazil has smokin hot women, friendly happy people, wicked food, beautiful beaches, great beer but the money is better in Korea - the ONLY way Korea is better than Brazil. I will go back hopefully in the next few years.
Last edited by 4 months left on Sat Mar 25, 2006 5:37 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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VanIslander
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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| Posted: Fri Mar 24, 2006 2:35 pm Post subject: |
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| Have you ever gone up the Amazon? |
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endo
Joined: 14 Mar 2004
Location: Seoul...my home
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| Posted: Sat Mar 25, 2006 2:19 am Post subject: |
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| Are the beaches of Rio as amazing (female wise) as I've heard? |
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Wangja
Joined: 17 May 2004
Location: Seoul, Yongsan
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| Posted: Sat Mar 25, 2006 4:53 am Post subject: |
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Better than you could imagine in your wildest dreams.
Dry or otherwise. |
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JeJuJitsu
Joined: 11 Sep 2005
Location: McDonald's
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| Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 8:06 am Post subject: |
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| Vacationed there last year-- island Illha Grande, halfway between SP and Rio. Fantastic time, in fact I loved it so much, I hardly ever even think of the armed kidnapping-for-ransom I had to escape from in Sao Paoulo. |
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Tiger Beer
Joined: 07 Feb 2003
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