Change in plans

Just like any woman, I can and will change my mind. I wanted to give a quick update on my teaching plans for China. I have backed out of the deal. It just wasn’t feeling right for me. I could not relate to the material. Heck I never remember in school having to remember the structure of a sentence. Of course I remember the biggies……….verbs, nouns, pronouns, prepositions, and adjectives. But I just don’t recall learning what an article, a determiner and a quantifier means in a sentence.

I was informed that I would be teaching 5-classes each day and the students would range in age from 4-14 years old. Not so bad, but one class might be 4-6 year old, then next 7-8, and then the next 12-14 year olds, and so on; all requiring different material. I didn’t feel doing an on-line course would give me the confidence to do this job well. And I don’t do anything unless I can excel at it.

I love my life here in Antigua! I feel I will return next year and possibly set-up a spa/massage business.

Now I am looking at a 3-week in person training TEFL Class in India, then immediately follows a 3-month internship. I want to do a short internship program so see if I do really like teaching. This way I don’t have to find work on my own and expect to get a one year contract, when I don’t even know if I will like being an English teacher. So this makes perfect sense to me. I feel the in-person training will make a world of difference verses just on–line training. I have planned to go to India anyway, so this might be the class for me. I’m looking at returning to Houston in late July for about 3-weeks. I’ll get my visa all sorted out then take off to India by the last week in August. I plan to stay in India for 6-months. From there, I may go to see an old friend in Brisbane, Australia.