Teaching Traveling: Welcome to Michelle Aitken of “Go Teach Thailand!” Michelle, tell us a bit about your background.
Michelle: At the time of writing I’m 25 and I graduated from Liverpool John Moore’s University back in 2008. I’ve wanted to be a teacher for most of my life, but after getting a bit of experience under my belt and discussing my career path with a teacher and mentor, I realised that I [...Read More!]
Welcome to Britany Robinson, who has a wonderful story of shifting her volunteer efforts from elephants to children in Thailand. Take it away, Britany!
I am an aspiring travel writer who has just completed my first big trip. For the past two months, I explored Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, and Thailand. For one month of this journey, I had the opportunity to live in a small village in northern Thailand where I [...Read More!]
TeachingTraveling.com: Welcome to Valerie Hamer! Valerie, tell us about yourself.
Valerie: I am British, and in summer 2000 I moved to Tokyo for a couple of years. I’m still in Asia, though I now live in South Korea. In the UK I taught sociology and criminology at university, so teaching English was a new challenge.
These days I work at a university near Seoul, a great job that gives me a lot [...Read More!]
Teaching Traveling: Today we have a travel blog celebrity, Nomadic Samuel! Samuel, tell us a bit about your background.
Samuel: My name is Samuel Jeffery and I’ve been living abroad in some capacity or another for six consecutive years.
During my last two years of University I started tutoring English to foreign students on campus. The majority of my students were from South Korea and I quickly forged some great lifelong friendships. [...Read More!]
TeachingTraveling.com: Welcome to Robin Botto, experienced world traveler and panelist for the upcoming 10/18/11 “Meet, Plan, Go!” career-break travel event’s Boston chapter!
Robin, tell us about your background.
Robin: Tim and I are Bostonians and have been married about 2 years now. We had very little background in anything teaching related. We both worked in corporate America, but quit our jobs in Boston to take some time to travel in Asia. One [...Read More!]
TeachingTraveling.com: Welcome to Gareth, a remarkable teacher-traveler from Boston who has taught for extended periods in Latin America and now with the Peace Corps in China!
Gareth, tell us about your background.
Gareth: My name is Gareth Lindwall and I became a teacher during a year abroad volunteer gig in Honduras. When I returned, I worked as a Kindergarten teacher in a two-way English-Spanish immersion school in Boston for several years, and [...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!]
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!]
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!]