Plan B??
Got a reply from Kickstarter.com:
Hi TJ,
Thanks for writing and sharing your idea with us. While it sounds like an incredible opportunity, your project falls a bit outside of our focus. Kickstarter is focused on creative arts projects — look around the site and you’ll see what I mean. I understand what you’re looking to do here, but it’s just not what we’re focused on.
Thank you again for your interest, and best of luck!
Regards,
Cindy
Now what?? Any other ideas?
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English as a First Language →
The more I learn about teaching English as a foreign language, the more I’m able to empathize with the difficultiies English language learners face. I would say that I imagine it’s a difficult language to learn, but as someone who is now delving into the grammar rules I can say with certainty…
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Settling In →
The past few weeks I’ve moved from tourist mode to student mode to becoming-a-temporary-resident mode, with the following updates to share:
- TEFL classes are over and done with (actually the IDELT program, similar to CELTA, for those familiar with ESL/EFL certificates). It was a fairly intense…
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The troubles that ensue →
Getting ready and prepared to move to another country is a multifaceted journey. There are moments of ups and downs, joy and irritation, happiness and sadness, comfort and discomfort. Nobody said that this was going to be easy. And yet here I was thinking it would be. I am looking right now at all…
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Koh Jum, Thailand
Yes, another photo from this amazing island, from a day I just went wandering down the beach from my bungalow…
To reach the island you head out on a ferry where you’re not quite sure where you’re headed. All of the sudden, you stop in the middle of the sea as a score of smaller boats meet the ferry in the middle of the sea, each one sent by different places to stay on the island. After shifting yourself and your belongings from boat to boat in the middle of the water, off you go to this bungalow or that resort. Definitely a time when you just have to let go and go with the flow.
KICKSTART!
Well, I did it… I went to www.kickstarter.com and submitted my idea to see if they like my idea for going to teach. I have no idea why I waited so long to do this but am now nervous to find out their response. Feeling a bit in a rut and stuck here and am so anxious to finally get started on this next phase of my life… It just seems so far away.
Fingers crossed and I’ll keep everyone posted!
-TJ
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I was walking around Chiang Mai, going from temple to temple (they are about every 4 steps in Chiang Mai) and came across monk class. I thought it was pretty beautiful. Think the equivalent of Catholic school but without the guilt.
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Shut the F**k Up! (or tips on what not to do when prodded by youngsters) →
I’ve got a confession to make. I was a rubbish teacher. I never, ever had the full attention of my classes, they quite often misbehaved and generally (I fear) didn’t learn very much. And I was…
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PANTS ON… PANTS OFF
I met an amazing Englishman on my journey through Asia last year. We made good travel buddies, as you tend to do when so far away from anything familiar, and have stayed in touch regularly since. He recently left to go take a TEFL certification class. Sounds pretty routine and normal, right? Here’s his journey: depart England for Bucharest, take train from Bucharest to Greece, take another train from Athens down the Greek coast to Crete, spend one month across from the beach learning how to teach English. AMAZING, RIGHT?!
He recently had an interview with a school in Korea regarding a teaching position and below is the story he recounted to me in an email:
“Slowly sipping my early morning coffee, sat before a glowing computer screen, adorning an incredibly smart shirt, and some terribly comfortable boxers, I considered myself ready for the interview. Little was I to soon realise, that in the case of a video interview, a modicum of research is highly expected, along with a preference, to keep, afore-mentioned bare legs under the confines of a desk (embarrassing moment to soon follow). The time in England was barely 7 (AM), while the time in South Korea remained considerably later, so I was left struggling to keep my eyes open, as my interviewer struggled to maintain his focus, after an entire day of teaching (if I had a choice as to the face looking back at me first thing in the morning, I could certainly think of a few better possibilities??). I confess my nerves, were perhaps more distant than they should have been, and my preparation remained considerably lacking. The interview began in typical fashion, without a female presence, I was unable to use my common technique of flirting, so was reduced to a confident flattery, in response to a variety of issues and considerations - yes, I am ‘ENGLISH’, and yes, I really would like to teach (I guess one must check such things, just in case you had arrange the wrong Skype date - is this how speed-dating would feel?). I answered all those points thrown at me, with the most thought-provoking, intelligent responses I could muster. To find my interviewer appearing relatively pleased, before requesting to hear of my own questions or enquiries, it is here, that I highly advise a little pre-interview deliberation time?! (along with a tad less fidgeting, to protect the appearance of lower-body nudity - though in regard to porn applications, perhaps alternate advice may be sought??). I believed the interview to have gone swimmingly, despite the challenges of attempting to read the responses of your opposite via video. Sadly I was unsuccessful in my application, though I maintain not through my interview prowess, but rather the current easiness of which schools in South Korea are able to apply for foreign teachers from within Korea itself, often possessing the experience, which I currently lack. This is why I currently find myself on a train somewhere between Romania and Greece, possibly following a recent passport check - Bulgaria, en-route to a four-week intensive TESOL course in Crete - wish me luck, as I wish you great success in your own teaching desires across the world…”
If he can do it within a year of being home, I should be able to do the same!!
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