So many questions...
Sorry, in advance, for all the questions...I'm just trying to figure it all out, and it seems confusing, but from reading back through entries, you all seem so knowledgeable and helpful! =]
Ok, so here be my dilemma.
I'm a US citizen, living in California, where there are NO JOBS. So...I have traveled a bit, mainly through Europe and Mexico, and I thought, I should teach English in Asia.
I am specifically looking into Korea for a few reasons. The first being I have 2 very good friends living in and around Seoul, and I would love to be able to see them again, and fulfill my promise to visit them. Second being that Korea looks beautiful, and the history intrigues me, so I would love to go. Third...I have heard from several reliable sources that you can get a job over here, without certification, and go over to teach, them paying transportation, training, housing, etc. Having not had a job in 17 months, and my school loans almost out, this makes me a happy monkey indeed. Reading through some entries, I think that perhaps their training may not be the best, but my mother taught ESL for a few years, as well as has learned several languages throughout her life, and has great skills/ideas/lesson plans for teaching a foreign language. I also pick up languages quickly, and would love to learn an Asian language.
So here are my questions...
how accurate is the getting a job from here, going there, training, all things paid for/reimbursed? I am in a bit of a sticky financial situation, and could probably scrape enough together for plane and first month or two living, but....I can't really afford the $1000+ for the training/certification on top of that.
also...I have read that Korea requires your diploma. I will be graduated in January, which is when I would like to leave, as the money well will be scraping the very bottom by then, but I will not get my actual diploma until April probably. I am actually done with school, but they lost some of my paperwork, and so instead of being graduated this summer, I will not be graduated until Fall term is over. Will school take an official letter from my school stating I am done and graduated, do you think???
Also...if they provide housing, what's it like? this is really more for curiosity's sake thank anything else, I just constantly see "single housing provided" and ma curious as to if that is a bed and a sink and toilet and something to cook on, or just a bed, or.....?
Thanks so much in advance!!!
Ok, so here be my dilemma.
I'm a US citizen, living in California, where there are NO JOBS. So...I have traveled a bit, mainly through Europe and Mexico, and I thought, I should teach English in Asia.
I am specifically looking into Korea for a few reasons. The first being I have 2 very good friends living in and around Seoul, and I would love to be able to see them again, and fulfill my promise to visit them. Second being that Korea looks beautiful, and the history intrigues me, so I would love to go. Third...I have heard from several reliable sources that you can get a job over here, without certification, and go over to teach, them paying transportation, training, housing, etc. Having not had a job in 17 months, and my school loans almost out, this makes me a happy monkey indeed. Reading through some entries, I think that perhaps their training may not be the best, but my mother taught ESL for a few years, as well as has learned several languages throughout her life, and has great skills/ideas/lesson plans for teaching a foreign language. I also pick up languages quickly, and would love to learn an Asian language.
So here are my questions...
how accurate is the getting a job from here, going there, training, all things paid for/reimbursed? I am in a bit of a sticky financial situation, and could probably scrape enough together for plane and first month or two living, but....I can't really afford the $1000+ for the training/certification on top of that.
also...I have read that Korea requires your diploma. I will be graduated in January, which is when I would like to leave, as the money well will be scraping the very bottom by then, but I will not get my actual diploma until April probably. I am actually done with school, but they lost some of my paperwork, and so instead of being graduated this summer, I will not be graduated until Fall term is over. Will school take an official letter from my school stating I am done and graduated, do you think???
Also...if they provide housing, what's it like? this is really more for curiosity's sake thank anything else, I just constantly see "single housing provided" and ma curious as to if that is a bed and a sink and toilet and something to cook on, or just a bed, or.....?
Thanks so much in advance!!!