Are you are looking to travel abroad to Latin America to learn, intern or volunteer? Then check out www.LIVFund.org!
LIVFund is a new non-profit organization that supports learning, intern and volunteer initiatives in Latin America through the LIVFund Scholarship.
This funding opportunity allows you to put the money you are awarded towards the abroad program of your choice. You can even design your own program if you’d like, as LIVFund also supports [...Read More!]
TeachingTraveling.com: Welcome, to Francis, a travel writer who hiked nearly 6,000 miles on the Continental Divide Trail!
Tell us a bit about your background, Francis.
Francis: My mother is from Chile and his father is from France. My dad was a college dropout and my mom was a high-school dropout (she had to work to support her family). They met in San Francisco thanks to a slow elevator.
Our family spoke Spanish [...Read More!]
TeachingTraveling.com: Here’s a great account from Steve Sirski, who has been an ESL teacher, filmmaker, and scholar in South Korea, Cambodia, and Ukraine!
Steve, tell us a bit about your background.
Steve: I’m from Winnipeg, Canada and I’ve been teaching English on and off for the last three years. I’ve recently returned to Canada from Ukraine where I was doing some family roots research and teaching English in Kharkiv. I may stay [...Read More!]
Hello from China, where I am spending my summer vacation from Boston Public Schools!
I hope you are all having a lovely summer, too, and I bring you exciting news with this post: Tickets for the Meet, Plan, Go! Career-Break Travel Conference on October 18 are now on sale for 17 North American cities!
If you or anyone you know is interested in undertaking extended travel or career-break travel abroad, head over [...Read More!]
TT: Welcome to Lisa Vinish, a world traveler who has explored Kenya, Tanzania, Southeast Asia, and is now teaching in South Korea.
Keep reading for a treasure trove of concrete advice on how to structure and launch YOUR travel adventure!
Lisa, tell us a bit about your background.
Lisa: I’m a 26 year old Canadian gal and I’ve been teaching English in South Korea since August 2010. My education background, however, [...Read More!]
By request, TeachingTraveling.com now offers a free email subscription!
See on the upper right side of this website where it now reads, “Subscribe to TeachingTraveling.com by Email”?
Just click that link, follow the directions, and, POOF! You’ll then receive a polite email right into your Inbox for each new article, approximately once a week! You may unsubscribe at any time, and any moment when you feel uninspired by the content (sniffle…) you may simple delete the email [...Read More!]
TeachingTraveling.com: Today we have the fascinating story of how Jacob Madden and his wife saved money and went through a great program to volunteer teach in Nepal.
Jacob, tell us a bit about your background.
Jacob: My name is Jacob and I am 29 years old and was born in upstate New York. About midway through my childhood, my family moved down to Florida. That set the tone for me moving [...Read More!]
TeachingTraveling.com: We have a super unique teacher traveler today: American teacher Mike Welch, who travels the world gathering photos of people doing PowerKicKs, and who now is teaching as a professor in Bangkok, Thailand!
Mike, tell us a bit about your background.
Mike: My name is Mike Welch. I am originally from the Bay Area in California, about 25 miles outside San Francisco. I recently celebrated my 30th birthday here in [...Read More!]
TeachingTraveling.com: Today we have a juicy tale from Will Peach! Will, tell us your background story.
Will: Hi! I’m Will Peach, a 25-year old Brit working as a site editor at Gap Daemon, a site that helps independent travellers plan, share and keep in contact with friends/family on their travels.
I spent two-years abroad teaching English in Vietnam and also spent shorter periods of time trying my hand at it in Russia [...Read More!]
Want an AMAZING travel and education opportunity? Read this, just in from Teacher-Traveler extraordinaire, Monica Wong about how YOU can help run an HIV/AIDS awareness campaign in Tanzania!
Take it away, Monica!
What is the most important tool in limiting the spread of HIV/AIDS? Education.
At Support For International Change (SIC), an organization dedicated to limiting the impact of HIV/AIDS in underserved communities, we offer volunteer programs that allow university students and [...Read More!]