Richard, from our class, quit the course yesterday. He said he just wasn't feeling it. I understand where he's coming from, though I don't plan on quitting. I'm not wasting all that money I spent, though motivation is getting hard to come by. I think that this certificate will be useful in the future, should I choose to teach at some point, but so ( Read more... )

I'm now a third of the way through this program. I taught for 40 minutes on Monday and 40 minutes on Tuesday, and now I'm trying to brainstorm some ideas for my first 60 minute lesson tomorrow. I have to teach about apartment/accomodation ads, including adjectives of place, adjectives like comfortable and modern, and do some kind of dialogue ( Read more... )

The first week of class is over. They have been some of the longest four days of my life ( Read more... )

We start class at 11 every day, and for two weeks of that, I will not be finished with class until 8:45 or so. The first day went okay - basic administrative stuff. We begin teaching tomorrow, but it's for 6 minutes and only to half of the class because we split up. This morning's half of the class, I started getting a little freaked out and ( Read more... )

I've been here about 2 days now. Here's a mass e-mail I sent about my first 1.5 days here.

( I'm here )

In a little over 2 days, I will be on my way to the airport. My mom will start crying and then I will start crying, and though it will be sad to leave, it hasn't all set in yet. Yes, I'm excited, and yes, I'm nervous, but until I get to the airport in Prague and get in that cab to take me to the hostel, the reality won't hit me. This morning I ( Read more... )

I got this e-mail yesterday:

Dear trainee ( Read more... )

I paid my deposit yesterday and made my accommodation reservation. One drawback to my somewhat sudden decision to do this was that all of the student housing was already full, so therefore I have been assigned to a hostel. I don't find anything wrong with that, I like hostels just fine, except for the fact that during the big tourist season, ( Read more... )

I just finished my interview for TEFL, and it went really well! I've been offered a spot in the course starting July 5th! Part of the interview was correcting a couple of sentences that the interviewer dictated, and I corrected a misuse of an apostrophe and he said I had "an impeccable command of the English language" (and this was coming from a ( Read more... )