By: Kori Czuy (TESL Canada Certified/BA Arts)
Teaching TEFL abroad poses unique challenges, whether it’s searching for that chocolate bar that reminds you of home, spending 3 hours paying a water bill, or being asked to make a speech to your entire school…in 2 minutes. As TEFL teachers overseas, we willingly subject ourselves to the often enjoyable chaos of that country and its culture but the overwhelming feeling of being in somewhere completely different can overload our senses and sometimes cloud over our reality, making us forget our original intentions; teaching.
No matter which country I move to or who I am teaching, these are 5 things I try not to lose sight of.