ESL Teacher

I’ve been lucky enough to teach English in four different countries on three different continents. Now I’m going through a fairly settled down phase of life where I can’t see myself moving to another country again, at least not this decade or next. But I still like to dream about where I might end up teaching.

Friends I’ve made during my teaching career help inspire these dreams. One teaching couple I know have now taught in Poland, Slovakia, China, Turkey and Colombia – a fascinating list, to be sure – and are now on the road looking for their next stop. Others have headed to the Middle East or to Taiwan and Korea, and send me email dispatches describing what they like and dislike about their new teaching and living environments.

If I had a magic wand, I’d go and teach in the Maldives for six months. I once saw an ad from a resort in the Maldives looking for a teacher to teach English to their staff for two hours every morning, and the rest of the time you could do what you wanted and had a room at the resort with food provided. I know that the dream of resort life would fade pretty fast, but I’d love to curl up and write a few books while teaching a couple of hours every morning – at least for six months or so.

I’ve also always been intrigued by the idea of teaching in Morocco. I had an interview lined up for a job there once, but before the interview time came around I’d accepted my teaching job in Germany, which I took over Morocco because jobs in Germany were so hard to find – I could teach in Morocco “any time”. I haven’t, yet, but would still love to one day. It’s important to have dreams!

If you could teach anywhere in the world, where would it be? Let me know in the comments, please!

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