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September 27, 2005
Get Lost Event
I wanted to thank everyone who joined us at Get Lost Books on Thursday, especially Lee Azus who gave us the opportunity to put this event together.
We had four speakers who talked about their different experiences teaching abroad. Dan Gould went first and told the audience about his three years teaching in Spain and how he showed up with no teaching experience or housing and found these two pretty easily. He even met a girl there and they are now married. I, Helene, remembered my days as a Business English teacher in Japan. Amy Belden taught in Versailles, France and told us how she managed to live in Paris on a teacher's assistant salary. And Greg Greunke talked about teaching in Taiwan and Japan.
The upstairs room was packed with friendly people--a lot of new faces which was great to see--and the Q&A session we had after the speakers was a lot of fun. People asked some great questions such what kind of opportunities (outside of teaching) there were in the countries we had taught in. A lady was interested in pursuing her singing career, another wanted to start writing for magazines, etc.
I probably wouldn't be able to go over all the questions asked that night but if anyone is thinking about teaching abroad, let us know, we'd be happy to help. Send me an e-mail (editor@insideoutmag.com) or post a question in our forums.
And if you couldn't make it to this one, be sure to join us at Get Lost on November 3. We'll be talking about volunteering abroad.
Posted by insideoutmag at September 27, 2005 03:32 PM