Post by Clayton on Aug 12, 2010 13:56:12 GMT -5
International Language Center. Or is it Centre??
Welcome to English, the most used, most hybrid, most difficult of languages (unless your mom spoke it..) other than Cantonese Vietnamese Thaiese and Laoese.
My name is Clayton and I taught at ILC for three months. It was fun and fun. The kids, the teens, the adults, they are all part of a big happy family. Thats what I loved most about the school. 10 oclock. When the people are filing out to go home for the night. So much vibe and obvious groups of friends. Chachapoyas is a small town you know.
But don´t get me know, Chacha is full of fun and freaky fun and super fun and too much fun. There are karaoke bars, pubs, discotecas, cafes (wi fi!!!) and more. Social places. Plus, obviously the everpresent PLAZA CENTRAL that you find in .... 100% of Latin American towns??? I am from Canada, so the Spanish had very little finger in the pot of architecture and town planning up north. Maybe you know that. That reminds me...
If you are new to teaching, ILC is great. If you are new to Latin America, again ILC is great. There is a mix of Peruvian and Foreign (Native) Teachers of the English. Plus odd smatterings of French, Italian, Portuguese and Chinese teachers, depending on how Fidel and Gregory line things up month by month. What I am saying is that its a healthy mix of locals, travellers, newbies and lifers (in terms of traveller-teachers so to speak). Again, to be clear. What I am saying is DON¨T WORRY if you are fresh on the trail of world wonders and travels. Chacha is small, its comfortable, its safe, and Fidel and Gregory and the other teachers very willing and ready to help you acclimatize and feel comfortable. Feel at home.
Well....thats a brief dose of ILC and Chachapoyas. Have we forgotten anything??? Why, yes we have by Jove!!! The land the land the land!!! So beautiful. So many places to go. I got up one morning at 5 am and went to Gokta, walked in, swam with the mermaids under the thundering spray, walked out, and was home in time for work at 5 pm. Can you beat that??? And thats a wednesday. Imagine a weekend. Imagine a five to ten day vacation between curriculums (which generally more or less so so follow the months). Long story short: Chachapoyas is a place but its a people and a history. A history of the cloud people, for lack of better descriptions. There is history here. Buried, overgrown, sanctioned by government or just plain unfound. So you grab your machete and your rubber boots and GET OUT THERE who knows what you´ll find! Thats for all you intrepids and wackos and funlovers....haha.
Back to ILC. Are you a teacher? Do you want to be a teacher? Well...this is Peru. So come on down to ILC and put your mettle to the test. Truth be told, the kids sometimes don´t want to learn, because they´re parents want them to learn, not them. Teens, well they want to learn but sometimes...same. Adults? They want to learn. Thats my honest opinion about the classes, in the most general sense of things. So if you come here, look to inspire the uninspired, help the inspired, and mark both...jaja.
jaja is spanish for hahah
Thanks I´m Clayton and you are wanted at the school...if you first do some interviewing with Fidel and-or Gregory regarding your qualifiability. Don´t miss out. I didn´t.
Welcome to English, the most used, most hybrid, most difficult of languages (unless your mom spoke it..) other than Cantonese Vietnamese Thaiese and Laoese.
My name is Clayton and I taught at ILC for three months. It was fun and fun. The kids, the teens, the adults, they are all part of a big happy family. Thats what I loved most about the school. 10 oclock. When the people are filing out to go home for the night. So much vibe and obvious groups of friends. Chachapoyas is a small town you know.
But don´t get me know, Chacha is full of fun and freaky fun and super fun and too much fun. There are karaoke bars, pubs, discotecas, cafes (wi fi!!!) and more. Social places. Plus, obviously the everpresent PLAZA CENTRAL that you find in .... 100% of Latin American towns??? I am from Canada, so the Spanish had very little finger in the pot of architecture and town planning up north. Maybe you know that. That reminds me...
If you are new to teaching, ILC is great. If you are new to Latin America, again ILC is great. There is a mix of Peruvian and Foreign (Native) Teachers of the English. Plus odd smatterings of French, Italian, Portuguese and Chinese teachers, depending on how Fidel and Gregory line things up month by month. What I am saying is that its a healthy mix of locals, travellers, newbies and lifers (in terms of traveller-teachers so to speak). Again, to be clear. What I am saying is DON¨T WORRY if you are fresh on the trail of world wonders and travels. Chacha is small, its comfortable, its safe, and Fidel and Gregory and the other teachers very willing and ready to help you acclimatize and feel comfortable. Feel at home.
Well....thats a brief dose of ILC and Chachapoyas. Have we forgotten anything??? Why, yes we have by Jove!!! The land the land the land!!! So beautiful. So many places to go. I got up one morning at 5 am and went to Gokta, walked in, swam with the mermaids under the thundering spray, walked out, and was home in time for work at 5 pm. Can you beat that??? And thats a wednesday. Imagine a weekend. Imagine a five to ten day vacation between curriculums (which generally more or less so so follow the months). Long story short: Chachapoyas is a place but its a people and a history. A history of the cloud people, for lack of better descriptions. There is history here. Buried, overgrown, sanctioned by government or just plain unfound. So you grab your machete and your rubber boots and GET OUT THERE who knows what you´ll find! Thats for all you intrepids and wackos and funlovers....haha.
Back to ILC. Are you a teacher? Do you want to be a teacher? Well...this is Peru. So come on down to ILC and put your mettle to the test. Truth be told, the kids sometimes don´t want to learn, because they´re parents want them to learn, not them. Teens, well they want to learn but sometimes...same. Adults? They want to learn. Thats my honest opinion about the classes, in the most general sense of things. So if you come here, look to inspire the uninspired, help the inspired, and mark both...jaja.
jaja is spanish for hahah
Thanks I´m Clayton and you are wanted at the school...if you first do some interviewing with Fidel and-or Gregory regarding your qualifiability. Don´t miss out. I didn´t.