The TEFL Course: Successfully Completed
Tonight 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 hold forth on the difference between the present perfect continuous and the future perfect continuous, and I can tell you everything you ever wanted to know about modal verbs.
Backpacking in the Andes
Last weekend, some friends and I went on a two-day, 15-mile backpacking trip in the amazing Cajas National Park, which is at a lofty 13,000 feet. We were miles from anyone, and the terrain was amazing. I found these two photos of the park–they’re representative of what we saw. It didn’t look at all like you’d expect Ecuador to look.
Off to Quito, Otavalo, and Bahia de Caraquez
Tomorrow morning, our entire TEFL group flies to Quito for some celebratory sightseeing. Then we’ll visit Otavalo before making our way to Bahia de Caraquez, a beach resort renowned for its eco-friendly practices. We’ll be there for four days, and then we’ll return to Quito on the 24th. After that, I’ll return to Cuenca.