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Live music (finally!), job and apartment updates
November 24, 2013
Wednesday the 13th - This week I actually found a band. A live band playing music at a party. It was probably someone's birthday party, maybe anniversary, I don't know, it was just one family apparently. But they had a band playing a style of music called Vallanato. This is the first live band I have come across in this city. One thing I miss here is live music. Barranquilla has virtually no live music, very few bands, no street musicians.
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Been Quiet
October 13, 2013
Hi, it's been a quiet two weeks since my last update. Last week was a school vacation week. I have only 3 lessons last week. My students were either travelling for business or taking a vacation week with their families. This next week should be back on track with a regular schedule.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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