for sure! I love talking about this stuff.
if you join an online platform with in-place curriculum, then they assign you to classes so the students are already there.
I didn't want a schedule, so i made myself available to casually chat with ESL learners on an app called palfish.
enough people called me up for me to make a few hundred a month, which is all I needed to travel. dorms are $100 a month in SE Asia, food is 1 to $4 a portion in all of asia, and I was backpacking half the time anyway.
when I landed in a country, I bought the unlimited data-only plan, clicked the "online" button, and then people called me up whenever they wanted to practice their english with me.
that online work was partially to offset using my savings, but i had already taught in person for ~7 years.
with each month of in-person teaching affording me ~3 months of living expenses, i had enough savings to travel for a couple decades by the time i started traveling full-time.
quick note: there's no competition for ESL students at the teacher level. there are way too many ESL students and not nearly enough English teachers to fulfill the demand. it's not even close.
both.
I taught in person in China at first, and then after I started traveling full-time I taught online because all you need is a smartphone.
and no, the market is not at all saturated, it is wide open. there are literally thousands of jobs available right now across dozens of countries and online.
if you have any interest in traveling, or you need money, and are a native or fluent English speaker, teaching English is such a great deal.
I'm happy to answer any other questions you have.
it's a great job.
teach as little or much as you want, save as much money as you want, go pretty much wherever you want, and then chill out the rest of the time.
I taught for several years and am still traveling on the savings a decade later.
if you're a native English speaker, you can start doing this next week.
every month you teach english generally results in 2 to 3 months of savings.
Robot Question Unsure Angry.
Use my four tone touchstones and you'll be correctly pronouncing Mandarin in a couple minutes.
details here: https://www.spreaker.com/episode/010-robot-question-unsure-angry--65239786
I just traveled to Guatemala and learned that once you're in Guatemala, which is visa-free for most countries, you can also travel visa-free to Honduras, El Salvador and Nicaragua during your stay.
that commenter was referencing Afghanistan, not xinjiang.
haha, yea these guys look real dapper.
very green city, beautiful trees everywhere.
I just got to Panama City, Panama yesterday, buses are a flat $0.25 regardless of distance and the Metro is a flat $0.50 regardless of distance.
took the train for ~8 mi into town to get to my hotel for $0.50.
ate at a Korean BBQ buffet and saw a bunch of mapaches(raccoons) that apparently live along the Pacific Coast here.
with all the fashionable dress, performing arts theaters and bodegas around, it feels a lot like a casual New York City, moreso than any other central city I've been in abroad so far.
it has that "yeah, we're killing it" vibe.
I lived in a 1980 Winnebago Brave for a little under a year and absolutely loved the convenience, comfort and free rent.
I would live in one again because I don't feel like I got all my kicks out the first time.
I still look up prices now and then to make sure they're still pretty cheap in the states.
I always feel like the hands-free bidet is sneaking up on me, I prefer the control and manual aim/pressure of the gun.
Tomorrow, The Burning of Judas.
every year during semana de la Santa, the holy week, Guatemalans dress up as Roman soldiers and ceremonially chase Judas through the streets for his betrayal.
tomorrow they're going to build effigies of Judas and burn them.
this picture is the front of a procession of 20 or so school children dressed like Roman soldiers ceremonially chasing down Judas.
some of the processions last for a whole street so I had to dodge six different processions today to try and get back to my neighborhood.
I stayed here for $90 a month(like it was last month) for 3 months.
Long Island iced tea buckets are also $4 at the bar at this location, by the byyy. plus there's a filtered full-size pool next to the bar/restaurant area.
Between podcast episodes, I'll share some general travel information.
https://archive.is/2SSwm