Teaching Traveling: Celebrity alert! Today we have esteemed travel blogger Chris Walker-Bush, creator of ”Aussie on the Road” and teaching abroad fanatic.
Chris, tell us about yourself.
Chris: G’day, I’m Chris; a 28 year old Australian theatre graduate who has been teaching ESL abroad since 2007. I got into the travel gig back in late 2007 when I started on a 2.5 year teaching tour in South Korea, and have continued that here [...Read More!]
Teaching Traveling: Welcome, Whitney!
Tell us about your background.
Whitney: When I was younger, I traveled so much, but only in my imagination. My favorite books growing up were set in other countries and other time periods. For example, when I read about Sherlock Holmes, I so badly wished to be in London, in the Victorian era (I love how much a geek I am!).
I longed to be part of an [...Read More!]
Teaching Traveling: Welcome, Alexa, a traveling teacher who connected with me because we both had the same wonderful TEFL teacher, Natalie!
Alexa, tell us a bit about your background.
Alexa: I’m Alexa Hart, a 25-year-old southern California native who spent the past two years teaching in Seoul, South Korea. Before moving to South Korea, I got TEFL certified in Cusco, Peru with a fantastic volunteer organization and English-language institute called Maximo [...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, world-traveling teacher Shasta! Please tell us about yourself.
Shasta: I’m originally from a tiny town in northeast Texas and went to college in Louisiana and Arkansas. I graduated with a Psychology degree from the University of Central Arkansas in 2006, and then began the test of intestinal fortitude that is a Peace Corps application. I got nominated to teach in Eastern Europe/Central Asia, but needed some actual teaching experience [...Read More!]
Today we welcome Natalie Patton, who will recount for us her journey to start teaching English in South Korea.
Take it away, Natalie!
Once it happens, it happens. There is no going back. Even if you wanted to, even if all you desired was complete normalcy within a small radius of what is homelike and comfortable, it cannot be done, because once you’ve been bitten, you will be changed forever.
It happened [...Read More!]
Today we have a fascinating account from an Irish lass who is teaching in South Korea. Take it away, Elizabeth!
Hi! My name’s Elizabeth O’Hagan. I’m 24 years old, and from Belfast, Northern Ireland… and I’ve recently just moved to Jeju, South Korea!
In my final year of university, I found myself thinking, “What next?” I had always wanted to travel, and over the years had visited many countries, mostly in [...Read More!]
Interested in teaching abroad? Hear details from Shirlen, a Houston, Texas native, about how she found and began a teaching job in Uijeongbu, South Korea! Take it away, Shirlen:
As my seventh month approaches and the honeymoon stage dissipates, I am still happy to be teaching English in South Korea. I am so happy, in fact, that I will renew my contract.
In May of 2009, I graduated with a Masters, [...Read More!]