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Monthly Archives: January 2003

30-Jan-03

Back in Cuenca and Ready to Start TeachingGuayaquil, Gualaceo, Cuenca, Ingapirca, Cajas National Park, Quito, Otavalo, Bahia de Caraquez, Canoa, Banos, Riobamba, and Alausi.
Those’re the Ecuadorian towns and cities and sights we’ve visited during the last month. And now we’re back in Cuenca. I’m ready to settle down and start teaching.
QuitoTwo weeks ago, we […]

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16-Jan-03

The TEFL Course: Successfully CompletedTonight I’ll be awarded my certificate in Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL). It’s been a busy week–classes in the morning, student teaching in the evening, and a short research project thrown in for good measure. We also had to pass a rather difficult grammar test yesterday. I can know […]

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09-Jan-03

TeachingThings’re great here in the Andes. My TEFL classes are going well, as are my student teaching sessions. We’ve progressed from 20 minute to 45 minute blocks of teaching; last night I taught our low-beginner class 1) how to indroduce yourself and tell others where you’re from, and 2) how to describe time expressions like […]

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05-Jan-03

My First Week-and-a-Half in Ecuador
My first ten days in Ecuador have been wonderful.
What I’ve Been Up To:I flew into Guayaquil, the country’s biggest city, on Christmas night. Guayaquil’s a large, humid, unattractive metropolis. I met up with my fellow TEFL students at the airport, and, the next day, we walked around the city’s riverfront. […]

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