Anyone who knows me and has spoken to me about my travels will know I'm taking a free and easy approach, and have planned remarkably little. I bought a one way ticket to Kathmandu in about February I think, and since then not really done much. I'm due to leave on the 1st Sept 2011 and I'm basically hoping to go out and teach English and be of some use to somebody. I don't feel of much use in England, teachers here seem completely undervalued - I don't know how everyone else is keeping it up - I found it depressing and I also require more time to be creative of an evening; so I decided to leave the country.
I did some more planning today and have now received a form for applying for a work visa in NZ. I should prob write a things to do list or something...
1/ get a visa for India
2/ get a visa for NZ
3/ try and work out a route to take in India
4/ e mail people about volunteer work in India
5/ find out where to stay in Kathmandu
6/ find out where to stay in India
7/ find out where to stay in NZ
8/ get a job in NZ
9/ check I don't need a cholera jab
10/ pack.
That's probably about it right? Can people message me back on this? If you can - let me know if I've missed anything...
Awesome.
That's terrible you didn't feel of much use in England as a teacher. I'm obviously privy to the feelings of.....ahem.....old teachers and they reckon that it's you 'youngsters' that have to be the future of education, because you have the energy to cope with teenagers. What's the required retirement age these days ? 68 ? Hmmmm. Just how will kids react to being taught by people they perceive to be their grandparents ?
ReplyDeleteI think teaching really is a vocational career - I dont think it was my vocation. I also think that younger teachers can at times have a better rapport with students however the older teachers -deservedly- generally have more respect. Unless they're the uncool fuddy duddy ones... I reckon your wife is one of the cool ones that the students would like.
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