Job Guidance

"As a Head of Studies at BCN Languages, I would like to state that IATQuO TESOL graduates show a great level of skill, development andprofessionalism. In fact, TEFL BARCELONA provides our School with a reliable source of new and qualified teachers: not only for their ability to be versatile in preparation but for their well-planned and intentional methods of teaching." 

Carmen Cidoncha, Head of Studies - BCN Languages

“I recommend the course. The instructors are well qualified and experienced. I was very satisfied with the overall quality of the course. It was more educative than other TEFL courses I’ve heard about. Job prospects are ample. The city of Barcelona is cosmopolitan and lively."

"Working as an English teacher has confirmed my initial review of the course. On the whole, participants of TEFL Barcelona seem better equipped to teach.”

Orion Jones (Cedar Rapids, IA, USA), January 2008
orion.d.jones@gmail.com

   

The current TEFL job market in Spain and Barcelona:

Latest Update: February 2009

Currently much of the world is experiencing an economic crisis and unfortunately Spain is no exception.The good news is that, thus far, the TEFL job market has remained fairly unaffected.

Though unemployment rates in Spain are rising, we have not seen a significant loss of teaching jobs.Although some companies have slightly cut back on their Business English classes in order to find a cheaper provider, language schools remain very busy.The need to learn English has remained a high priority for adults and children alike, and language schools have reported that their enrollments have not significantly changed.

Our graduates are continuing to enjoy a high rate of success, with 80% of them obtaining teaching positions within a week of finishing the course.

Hi Erwin!

I did get that job!! Thanks a lot! And the best thing is that it's all companies in my area, Valles Occidental, so it's very convenient! My classes are going just great! The course coordinator called me to tell me all the students are very happy with the classes! :) Thanks a lot for your help!! How are things going in TEFL Barcelona?

Paula Perez, November - December course 2008
paulaperezmarcos@hotmail.com

Scroll down to the bottom of the page to see more testimonials from past students about working, and finding work, as tefl teachers in Spain or abroad.

Job Guidance

“I would recommend the course to all my friends. Very good location and course content.I already have a job and started teaching before the course ended, with thanks to Kate @ Job Guidance. The course has put me in really good stead for the future and I found the grammar lessons extremely useful.”

Katie Wright (Sheffield, UK)

Whether you’re starting a life long career or just taking a year off, we want to see you succeed!Our job guidance service is lead by highly experienced specialists in the global TEFL job market.This means that we can cater to a wide variety of interests and needs.Our graduates go on to teach in-company Business English classes, beginner to advanced levelclasses for adults and kids, summer camps, and private classes.Wherever your interests lie, our experienced professionals can assist you in finding a teaching position best suited to you.

During the Course

During your TEFL course there will be sessions on all of the practical issues related to finding an English teaching job.The following are some of the components that make up these sessions:

CV/Resume Writing

We’ll show you how to write a CV and cover letter that generates results.We offer format choices, help with writing position-specific CVs and samples of excellent CVs as well.Our job guidance counselors are very experienced in the TEFL job market and will be able to appropriately advise you on every detail.

Information on Language Schools

You will be provided with lists of language schools in Barcelona and other areas of Spain.We will also keep you update on job vacancies in our network of schools.We have a variety of schools that regularly contact us with teaching opportunities.

Information on Websites

We will show you the useful TEFL websites and how to efficiently navigate them as well as how to successfully apply for teaching positions online.

Interviewing 

We’ll have a session covering each aspect of interviewing.You will be given appropriate sample interview questions to practice with, techniques to help with tricky questions, and the “do’s” and “don’ts” of interviewing with language schools.

One to One Sessions 

During the course you will be scheduled for a personalized one to one session with one of the job guidance counselors.This will give us the chance to analyze your individual needs and address in greater detail any special concerns or interests you may have.

Our Program is Run from a LanguageSchool

The fact that our TEFL course takes place within BCN Languages means that you will have the advantage of experiencing a real language school while attending the course.Our location provides various other opportunities such as networking, meeting other English teachers, and meeting students of English as well.

After the Course 

Even after you’ve graduated we will continue to keep in contact with you to provide advice and support.You will have access to a graduate network so you can contact students from previous courses now living and teaching abroad that will be happy to share their experience and give you extra advice.We will also provide prompt and detailed references when requested.Furthermore, on successful completion of the course you may be offered a position right here with BCN Languages!

Testimonials and emails from past graduates…

Teaching in Barcelona & Spain …

I would recommend the course. We all really enjoyed it! I am working about 18 hours a week at the moment between Language and Kingsbrook and there are hopefully a few more in the pipeline too which is good. It’s nice to have the feedback about my lessons. That's really good :-). I have really enjoyed them so far although 4 9year olds are an interesting group!

Emma Emma Barlow (UK), November 2008
duckie22@hotmail.com

 

Hi Erwin!
Sorry about the delay in my response! Things are going well- I am working about 12-13 hours a week and hopefully will get some more). They are in with the same company I started working for before the course ended. Many of my classes are with children in their homes, but I also have a few classes in a law firm and I also teach teachers at a school. I really like the variety of classes I have. I've been getting some good feedback from the parents and students too, which is always nice.

Espero que estes bien!

Amber Sellers ( USA ), November 2008
leigh.amber@gmail.com

 

“I undertook the 4 week intensive TEFL course in May-June 2008. The course concentrated on teaching English as a foreign language to a variety of people with different degrees of English comprehension, including elementary, pre intermediate, intermediate and upper intermediate. You are also taught how to teach private and in company lessons as part of the course. The course incorporated 10 hours of teaching practice as well as writing various assignments on specific areas of teaching, such as empathising with the student’s situation and understanding their needs.The course was heavily structured around revising English grammar and thoroughly incorporating this into each lesson, alongside teaching new vocabulary and practicing pronunciation techniques which included phonology.

I thoroughly enjoyed the course and would recommend it to anyone who is looking for new challenges and perhaps a new career, which I had been.Not only have I gone on to work over 25 hours a week in an English school in Barcelona, but I have made many good friends and have set up a great life out here, which was exactly what I was hoping for before arriving.And if you don't already speak Spanish, then this job is the perfect way to allow you to learn at the same time as working.After completing the TEFL course I was slightly apprehensive as to how I might actually cope with teaching alone, without supervision and guidence, but as soon as I started, I realised that the TEFL course had fully prepared me for what to expect, and even what not!” 

Ros Morgan (UK), May 2008
rosalind25@hotmail.com

 

Hi Erwin,
Yeah, I’ve been working for Cambridge school ever since! I work in the classroom next to Barbara Stern who trained with you as well. I really like the job but I’m going back to the U.K in September to do my masters; then to South America, I think .Thanks for all the help. I hope the course and all is going well. This is such a great city!!

Thanks again,

Rebecca Price (UK), April 2008
martha.norton@googlemail.com

 

Hi Erwin,
I have found a job teaching with Forum Idiomes (Castelldefels), and they send me every evening Monday-Thursday to teach in IPS. It is a company which makes software for gambling machines, of all things... it is a good position, and I teach all levels from Elementary to Advanced. I will be preparing some students for the Cambridge exam too.

I do still need more hours, however, so I will be phoning up many language schools in the coming days. If possible, I am also planning to take up a bar job or a waiting job somewhere - good Spanish practice!
Great to hear from you sir, and thanks so much for your help and support!

Tywi Roberts (UK), November 2008
tywiroberts@gmail.com

 

Hey Erwin!
So life is going pretty well! I am still in Barcelona, found a new place near Sagrada Familia and its fantastic!! I started teaching at a language school in Placa del Sants on October first and that has been really good. The people there are soooo nice, and incredibly helpful. I teach two elementary adult classes, one that is intensive and 3 days a week so that is a little crazy. I also teach an Upper Intermediate adult class, and so it is nice to have at least one class where the students know a little more English and it can be more conversational. And then I teach a class of 8 yr olds with about 5 students, and then a class of 9-11 yr olds that have about 10 kids. I'm really glad I got an opportunity to teach kids, its been a long time since I have done it and they are so funny! So I work about 17 hours a week there, and then also have another company that offers me private lessons that they find, and so I work a few hours a week for them as well. That one

I actually found searching through the internet. And I definitely use my TEFL knowledge, it really helps to know a lot of the things we learned for when questions randomly pop up in lessons. And I think the experience of it made me ready to just jump right into teaching. And the job hunting didn't take too long either. Although, it was intense and exhausting to walk the entire city, and then walk into language schools asking if they needed a teacher. I learned extremely early to look really nice, but wear extremely comfortable shoes while on my daily trek. But everything has worked out really well! Thanks Erwin!!

Megan Heinley (Texas, USA), August 2008

 

Hi Erwin,
I found work in two schools in Gracia. One is called IEI Formació, where I teach for a company 5.5 hours per week. I have the following groups:
- advanced: 7 students
- intermediate: 3 students
- beginner: one student
- First Certificate candidate: one student
- German intermediate: 1 student

Furthermore I work for "Kingsbrook". There I have one group of 2 beginner students (2 x 1,5 hours) with whom I practice German.

Then I have one private student at home. He is a lower intermediate student and we practise English together.

I am very happy with my groups and particularly German helped me to find work very fast and easy. In fact: I could work full time if I had the time to do this. With my students who I am supposed to prepare for the FC exam I felt a little bit lost at the beginning - I didn't know the requirements for the exam and started to search the internet for information. (Of course, now
I am fully equipped with exercises).

Ok, I hope I could provide you with all the information you asked for and let me say one more time "thank you" for the great time and personal gain in
the TEFL course :-)

Elke Schmitt (Germany), August 2008
schmitt.elke@googlemail.com

 

Hi Erwin
Good to hear from you again. I am now living and working in Cardedeu.I am teaching 4 levels, N1, N4, UINT and FCE, with a few Business classes, a Speaking and Listening class and a one to one student. The age groups are from about 7 yrs old up to late middle age, though the majority are KFCE - 15-16yrs.

Although I have a 20 hours a week contract, I actually teach more hours than that and including offsite travel, this amounts to about 25 hours a week

Life in Cardedeu is much quieter than in Barcelona but I really enjoy that. Too old for all that night club nonsense! I am about 10 minutes walk from the school.

We get extremely good support from our Director Julia Cross and from level leaders in the Granollers School with weekly seminars and level meetings so we are certainly not abandoned to our fate.

As the weeks go on I see things beginning to get a little less frantic and I am slowly gaining confidence.

The TEFL course was useful, relevant and appropriate and I have used many of the lesson plans, hints, tips and tricks that you and Geoff gave us.

Barbara Stearn (UK), May 2008
b_stearn@hotmail.com

 

Hello Meghan, Erwin, Geoff and TEFL Barcelona!
Right now I am working at Williams English in downtown Terrassa. I still live in Barcelona, so I take the train there Monday-Friday. I currently have 19 class hours a week with a spectrum of different learners. My youngest students are 4 years old, and my oldest is a 60 year old beginner. I also have 3 groups of teenagers, ages 10 -13, (just four students per group) and one private class with a 13 year old boy. The other classes are private and groups with adult learners, intermediate and advanced, and I aslo teach 2 company classes in north Terrassa. All of my students are Catalans. The focus of this school is conversation practice, but I feel my TEFL training is really put to the test with my beginner student and the children. We act things out, draw them, mime - anything to get the message across while keeping everything in English.

I am so grateful to have had practice with different groups at TEFL Barcelona, and cannot imagine having started this job with no TEFL training at all! I also feel, when speaking with other TEFL trained teachers, that TEFL Barcelona offers something special, more personal, that other programs do not. I often recall Erwin´s Russian lessons when trying to imagine English as an unknown language for my students. It would be impossible to learn everything there is to know about TEFL in 1 month, but I feel that TEFL Barcelona covered a little bit about a lot of topics and I feel very confident and prepared.

(Name and email of this student available upon request) USA (June course 2008)

 

I am currently working at BCN Languages, but applied for a summer ESL job at a private academy inSwitzerland and got it so it looks like I'll be heading there in late June.As far as testimonials: at the moment I can't put into words how swelleverything was. I would recommend this course to anyone who is interested. I would tell prospective students that the trainers are highly-skilled and dedicated to their work. The work is intensive yet rewarding."

Cormac Alexander Symington (Key West, Florida, USA), February 2008
Sacmym@gmail.com

 

“Anyone who has ever taken a TEFL course can tell you that the courses are intensive, and potentially overwhelming. It's almost like a year's worth of learning crammed into one month. I wavered before taking the course; I knew several people who were working as English teachers in Spain without having taken a TEFL course. Yes, they had long, sometimes horrific tales of adjusting to teaching, re-learning grammar, cut-and-pasting full time work out of meager contacts, but they were working . . .

Still something told me to participate in the course. I scored a full-time position right here at BCN Languages as my month at TEFL Barcelona ended. Erwin absolutely did not pay me to say this: I couldn't be happier with my decision to take the course.

 The instructors are experienced and knowledgeable not only about teaching English, but also about living and working in a foreign country.Even beyond the course, they care about each student as an individual and the course is designed so that everyone feels personally attended to.All have 'been around the block’, so to speak, and have shared invaluable advice, encouragement with those of us trying to create lives abroad. The small class sizes allow for the maximum amount of personal attention and guidance. Coupled with the sheer number of teaching practice hours, I graduated with the tools and techniques to be able to plan and execute creative, fun classes with relative ease. I'm getting much more job satisfaction (as well as free time to enjoy life in Barcelona) than I'd anticipated.

That intensive month in the classroom has made my transition into teaching, nothing short of seamless. The course was not only one of my most fruitful educational experiences, it was one of the best investments I've ever made.”

Khalilah Ieishah Clelland (Springfield Gardens, NY, USA), February 2008
Khalilahi@hotmail.com

 

“I would recommend this course because, through its intense nature, I feel fully prepared to start teaching English (in what’s only been a month’s time).”

Brieanne Friedman (Brookfield, IL, USA), January 2008
Bafriedman22@hotmail.com

 

"I'm teaching for two different schools in Barcelona right now. One is Communicative People and one is Luke's friend's school (it doesn't have a name yet). I'm teaching a bunch of teenagers privately, an FCE class, an intermediate class and a group of adult beginners. This leaves me with lots of time to plan lessons, go on runs, chat with people in the park, go to bars, etc. I'm also starting to write for a few English magazines in BCN.

The TEFL course really helped me figure out how to organize lessons and motivate students.

In other news: I started my Catalan classes today. It’s interesting comparing my teacher's teaching methods with what you taught us. You would have totally failed him! Too much TTT. I'm also learning Catalan from my three Mennorcan roommates, so it's not such a bummer!"

Nadia El Yousseph (USA) , October 2007
nadia.elyousseph@gmail.com

 

"I work for Let´s Learn Formación y Cambio S.A. I have 6 hours/week with Sol Barcelona Language Services and I have 7 hours/week with Humbolt Comunicación Intercultural S.A. The course really prepared me for these jobs. And the job guidance service helped me get a position at Aston Summer camp in July. I like my groups and the company is very flexible and friendly. I have 3 and 4 hour seminars. These are in-company classes but in the school’s classrooms. The school practises a new method called Blended Learning. It seems to be interesting. All my classes are in-company. The level of the students is from elementary (2 groups) to advanced (4 groups). And I teach classes a few hours in the mornings and afternoons."

Alfia Bogmiakova, (St. Petersburg, Russia), August 2007

 

“Hi Erwin, I just wanted to write and tell you how things have been going. I started work in October with Institut Europeu d'Idiomes. I like it a lot and the resources are wonderful. The directors, James Burnie, and his wife Montse are amazing and the 12 or so other teachers are also nice. I hope you are doing well and that classes are continuing as usual with you. I really appreciated your sensitivity with me and felt very comfortable during my time doing TEFL. I feel that you and Geoff adequately and perfectly prepared me for what I am working with now. Thank you for everything”

Francesca Galicki (Texas,USA) July 2007
efgalicki@gmail.com  

“I think Jane did help us quite a bit with job guidance. I used my resume that we worked on together in class and fancied it up a bit more. The sample interview questions were awesome to go through since I had an interview that asked some of the EXACT same questions! The best thing though was to come back from a long summer vacation (not thinking at all about English) and go through all my TEFL notes before looking for a job. That way I was refreshed with teaching methods, grammar points, class management notes, and ideas for different games/practices before doing an interview. Hope all is well. The TEFL course helped me a lot! Thanks Erwin, Jeff, and Jane,”

Sarah Catchot ( California, USA)
sarita-cat@hotmail.com

 

“Hello Erwin,
So, as you now know I will start teaching here at BCN Languages in October.

I would definitely recommend our TEFl course as I think it must be one of the best ones around. Some of the other courses don’t prepare trainees as thoroughly as TEFL Barcelona does. They only have 6 hours of teaching practice for example, they don’t always go through the grammar thoroughly.... 

I felt really well prepared at the end of the course and I felt confident and comfortable about teaching. The methodology I learned seemed to please when I did a couple of demo lessons.

Having the certificate definitely helped me get job offers and interviews. TEFL Barcelona seems to be well known and respected amongst other schools. Getting a good grade helped too of course!

As for working at a school, I couldn’t think of a better school to recommend than BCN Languages, but I am really biased here! Top marks for friendliness, efficiency, organisation and professionalism in my opinion!”

Nathalie Busin (UK)
whismith@yahoo.com

 

“I have been teaching in a language school for three months. I was lucky enough to be recommended for the job by the Course Director, Erwin Ebens, and actually started teaching before I had completed the TEFL course. I could not have taught without having studied TEFL, the techniques we were taught have proved invaluable, and I still regularly consult my notes for ideas and games. The grammar section has helped tremendously too, equipping me with the skills to teach complicated grammatical rules. I would certainly recommend this course to people considering teaching English in Spain, it is a great starting point.”

Louise Mackay (UK)
ljlmackay@hotmail.com

 

"I am working as a Mathematics teacher in Sanchez-Casal's TennisAcademy, I also teach one class of English to a lot of Russians! It’s a fantastic school and I love teaching so much. Also hoping to improve my Tennis! Hee hee! But seriously, I would have never got this job if it wasn't for TEFLBarcelona! You helped me a lot… with everything! I am very grateful!

I love Barcelona, especially when we have a day like today and in

Scotland it is miserable and dark! I think that I will remain here in Barcelona for a year or so more, also I have a fantastic new flat and my friends have moved over from Scotland so life is pretty good at the moment!

Well… that's it really!

Hope you and your family are well!! 

I repeat, thanks for all!"

Kirsty Yoxon (Scotland)
kess29@aol.com

 

“I am a twenty eight year old literature graduate who decided a year ago to apply for a tefl course; my choices were narrowed down to Prague and Barcelona. I was already leaning towards Barcelona when I noticed that the organisation seemed to be keener in Barcelona (email responses were helpful, friendly and clear) and so I decided. I have now been in

Barcelona for nearly a year!The course itself was fantastic and extremely valuable as not only training for teaching, but as an analysis of the learning process in yourself and your peers as well (pretty handy!).We were a small group of trainees and the atmosphere encouraged was one of relaxed focus; the work load is heavy, but the trainers are so approachable you very rarely feel overwhelmed, though challenged certainly.Following the course I was eager to start supporting myself and seeing if I could stay on.I now have a good job teaching an after school English club an hour and a half a day (Mon. to Thurs.) which I supplement with private classes.Barcelona is a fantastic city to live in and I have no inclination to move on yet. I feel like a key factor to my staying here is the support network that I was supplied with through the course, which gave me a foundation and that initial sense of being part of a new city.

I couldn't recommend this course enough. I am delighted by all the doors that continue to open to me here and how it really is possible to develop a teaching career from this short period of qualification. Enjoy!”

Laura Smith
laura_smells@hotmail.com

 

And teaching TEFL in other countries…

"I work for Wall Street Insititute, It's the largest language school in the world, with
over 400 centers across 28 countries. They are the only language school in the world to guarantee the students that they teach will learn English.

I teach anywhere from pre-int to advanced and I teach only adults, ranging from
18-70 years old I don't have to lesson plan, as Wall Street Institute has all the lesson plans made already! I work roughly 30 hours a week. I love my job, I have so much fun working for Wall Street Institute.

Life in Russia, I love it, it's the most beautiful country in the world! The people are very warm, friendly, and quick to welcome and help you whenever you need it! The culture has everything you might want to offer, the history is unbelievable, so many things to see and do in Moscow I can't even start to tell you. The night life is amazing.

Teaching in Moscow: What I love about teaching Russian students, is that they strive to learn, they focus, are dependable and have a desire to increase their knowledge of the English language. They are great people, very friendly and kind-hearted!

Job hunting: Wall Street Institute is hiring in Russia, they pay very well, well over the
Russian average, they also pay for housing (I have a giant apartment to myself, very close to the school) they pay for metro, full medical coverage and all Visa and plane trips are reinbursed. They also offer you a nice end of the contract bonus. The management is very friendly, helpful, and actually cares about the students, and the people working for the company. They take the time to get to know all employees and students.

So if any future teachers are interested, you can send them my way or have them visit wallstreetinsititute.com"

Brandon Lusby (MA, USA), September 2008
brandonlusby123@yahoo.com

"I'm moving to Daegu, Korea in a month to finally start teaching.I'll be working with middle schoolers, 26 teaching hours a week, and living in a studio apartment rent-free.My tefl certificate got me a salary bonus, too.The company (called YBM) owns, like, 30 schools all over Korea.I'm pretty pumped!"

Matt Smith (USA), May 2008
mattsmithga@gmail.com

 

Hello Erwin! I hope you're doing well and enjoying the current group of TEFLers in training.I have wonderful news: I was hired (today) by an international school in Lima, Peru! I am incredibly excited and I'll be moving there mid-July before classes start in August. Part of my job, as well as teaching, will be to help with the language assessment process for incoming students. I'll also be helping to integrate the ESL students into their other classes (math, history, etc). Thanks so much for your help and your encouragement throughout the program!!!

Claire Ohlsen (USA), March 2008
claire.ohlsen@gmail.com

 

"The course helped a great deal.When applying for a teaching job here in the United States it allowed me to apply for many different jobs.With an elementary education degree it definitely helped.I will be teaching a mix of students ages 9 to 11 years old (4th and 5th grade beginning August 2008.I will be able to “substitute” for ESL as well."

Natalie Nelson (Missouri, USA), July 2007

 

“Hello Erwin, I spent the rest of last summer teaching private students in Toulouse and Paris and have already had one job at an adult education college teaching Adult literacy to native speakers in the UK who were never fortunate enough to learn to read. This was an extremely challenging and rewarding job as many of my younger students were from very deprived areas and many lacked (previous to my employment if I may say so!) aspirations or even the realisation of just how fun and useful reading can be.

 I am currently working in Manchester teaching several private groups while searching for opportunities abroad.I am running a small private practice and occasionally cover at a literacy school in London.I’m teaching various types of classes and most of my students are business clients, though I also teach several young learners.

During the course the emphasis on job guidance and hours of supervised teaching practice were priceless! And the course helped me to source my clients. Also has helped me to secure work teaching Adult literacy to new deal clients in the UK which has been immensely rewarding.For these experiences and for many others to come I will be continually in your debt! All in all the course has opened the world to me in exactly the manner in which I had hoped, indeed just this week I have had many positive responses from many schools all over the world since I started sending out my CV for summer programmes.

At this moment in time teaching has become a new obsession for me! I'm learning a lot about myself as a teacher and a person and developing skills which will be with me for the rest of my life, so once again Thank you."

Daniel Bonner (Manchester, UK), May 2007
dabster1979@hotmail.com

 

“Hi Erwin, 

I hope all is well and TEFL Barcelona is prospering, I have very fond memories of my roller coaster ride that month in Barcelona. 

I am currently teaching in Ecuador. I have a job working for an NGO targeting sustainable Eco tourism in Indigenous territories, called the Pachamama Alliance. I am currently living deep in the Amazon jungle in a community of Achuar Indians. It is what you could call extreme teaching, as not only are you teaching people from a completely different culture but you also have to contend with jungle life. No electricity, running water and all that that entails. I am however enjoying it very much and it is a great challenge. I am planning on returning to England for Christmas, and want to get a job teaching, preferably in London. I was wondering if you could offer my any advice, or you knew of any job opportunities teaching in England.

Best wishes,
Daniel Combes”

Daniel Combes (UK)
unzappo@googlemail.com

 

“I'm working for a company in Sweden with their English education and also with their Swedish education for employees from other countries. Right now I have the CEO from Germany and the financial director from France for Swedish classes and for English classes I have 2 groups with 6 people in each. So I do TEFL in both English and Swedish and it works really well. I also work as a freelance teacher and just rent myself out by the hour. I really do like it. I really think it works to use a TEFL course to teach other languages as well, not just English. Next year I hope I can teach in Barcelona, probably both English and Swedish.”

Lisa Kjellme (Sweden)
liselottekjellme@yahoo.com

 

“Hi Erwin,
Hope you are well, thank you for the group email. Just thought I'd let you know what I'm up to - I'm in a small indigenous village in the mountains of La Sierra Norte, outside Oaxaca, Mexico. I'm teaching at the high school, I have 125 students aged between 15 and 18. Their English is very basic and the classes can be quite rowdy but it’s a lot of fun nevertheless! I'm also running a youth centre in the village in the afternoons. I'm leaving here end of December and then traveling down Central America, and may look for work in Buenos Aires, but still not sure! Hope you are well and enjoying life in Barcelona! I do miss the city a lot (living here we are four hours away from the nearest cinema or any other sign of civilisation) and hope to come back to Barcelona in the near future.
Best wishes
Lucy”

Lucy Scales ( UK)
lucy_scales@hotmail.com

 

 

 

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