Roaming South America

More classes

September 29, 2013

First of all, my computer has been dead due to a dead battery, due to a dead charger/ac adapter. I still have not had enough money to buy another adapter so am borrowing one. Hopefully soon I will have enough to buy an adapter/charger. I am quite surprised by the lack of HP computers and adapters/chargers here. Seems most laptops are not HP but Lenovo or other brands.

More students, Yay!

September 9, 2013

This past week a friend of mine, or more accuratly, my girlfriend, Belkis, helped me with looking at some classifieds online for job listings for English teachers. There were a couple of promising ads so I created a CV letter and sent it off to them. The next day I got a phone call from one of the companies. They are called Starway and are a new company, a new branch of an existing company. So I got called in for an interview with Daniel and Alejandros.

Looks like I'm playing sax again!

August 31, 2013

Hi! So what's new here? Let's see. I have been to at least 5 schools to ask about working for them as an English teacher, so far I get responses like "We will talk to the kids' parents and find out how many want lessons" or "We will talk to the administrators". Almost every school here has at least one English teacher teaching English classes. But what I have learned is that they are all Colombians who know English only well enough to teach it, and not fluent in the language.

Billiards, Football and another strike

July 5, 2013

First off, last week I mentioned a bit about many roadside bars, restaurants and billiards places. Billiards if very popular here in Colombia. There are many, many billiards places all over the city, in just about every neighborhood. They may have from 2 billiards tables on up to a dozen or more. Most are just a few tables and a refrigerator for beer. Many of the roadside bars, if you can call them a bar, are just a small building, often no bigger than a typical American backyard shed, and some tables and chairs outside under an awning. The small building is just for storing the beer.

Things are looking good

June 30, 2013