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Everybody has a story. . . no matter how pathetic.  Here are some real interviews with real teachers.  The straight dope, right from the horses mouth.  If I may mix my metaphors.

Just click on a name. . .

ENGLISH TEACHER MM gives us another sane, sober, rational feminine perspective on life as an English teacher in Mexico, Ecuador and Japan.  And what's more she's a married mother of two.  Who says this job is just for shiftless outcasts?  Not me, jack!

ENGLISH TEACHER KH managed to survive four years in Cambodia without overdosing on smack or stepping on a landmine, and he drops the skinny on that most exotic of destinations.   (Posted April 9th, 2006) 

You think I'M down on English Teaching?  Well check this guy out.  ENGLISH TEACHER KSM has been teaching for like fifteen years, even longer than I have, in Thailand, the Middle East, and Prague, and now thoroughly hates his life and wishes to spew bile about it.  (Posted March 25th, 2006)

 

 

English Teacher M16:  The Man Who Failed The CELTA Course Twice -  An astounding story of cowboys versus professionals, this former police cadet tells us about his experiences in training and working in Korea and Brazil.   Amazingly he thought a CELTA course would be easier than Hell Week at the Police Academy. . . (posted February 20, 2006)

English Teacher L gives us yet another feminine perspective on the job -- see, it's not just for middle-aged whoremongers anymore!  This eight-year veteran has braved Poland, Moscow and Japan, and is currently working as an infidel over in Syria, risking possible Jihad and/or American bombardment and invasion.  Baby! (Posted December 14, 2005)

English Teacher H has worked in Southeast Asia, England, and Spain, and discusses with us his search for cheap beer and good weather, and various piss-dripping psychopathic DOS's he has known.  (Posted June 1, 2005)

English Teacher EN has worked in Haiti and Buenos Aires, among other garden locations, and ruminates on boiled bananas, brutal gang rape, and other side effects of the English teaching profession.  (posted May 17, 2005)

English Teacher Geko spews forth some stream of consciousness about Korea and Japan.  Or maybe some stream of unconsciousness.  And shows us that punctuation and spelling are for pussies.  (posted April 4, 2005)

English Teacher M2 tells us about teaching in Europe, east and west, and extols the many virtues of Eastern European women.  If indeed "virtue" is the right word.   (posted March 15, 2005)

English Teacher B left his drug frenzy behind to seek peace behind the Bamboo Curtain.  (That'd be China.)  What did he find there?  Read on. . . (posted January 15, 2005)

Former Teacher N gives us the 411 on the country that everybody loves the name of: Costa Rica. He reassures us that the cops aren't going to cornhole us. . . (posted December 1, 2004)

English Teacher J gave a brief shot to being an Old China Hand, and lets us know it doesn't suck quite as bad as you might have heard.  (posted  October 1, 2004)

English Teacher Z left work at his local 7-11 at age 21 with a worthless (yet expensive) certificate and headed out to the Exotic East with a pocket full of dreams. Read about what he found. . .

English Teacher Kvido (a.k.a Keith Bennet) is the founder of the now defunct website EFL Planet. Having worked in the Czech Republic and Seoul, Korea (which he once compared unfavorably to the Planet of the Apes) this technomage tosses down the gauntlet to all the sucky EFL schools and websites.

Former Teacher Q worked for a few months in Bangkok and a few weeks in the Ukraine, but he's got a mouthful to say about both places.

English Teacher P is an old Thai hand, and he gives up a few thoughts about life and work in the Land of a Thousand Smiles (and considerably more prostitutes.)

English Teacher M is a self-described "frumpy, idealistic" type -- she's worked in Hong Kong, Australia and the US, and she offers us the feminine perspective on the job.

English Teacher K is one of my more respectable-seeming colleagues -- not only does he have an MA, he's worked for some fancy-sounding charity organizations.  He's worked largely in Russia and Eastern Europe and he shares with us the nature of the job and his attraction to it.

English Teacher G has been doing this job since most of you were spanking it to the lingerie section of the Sears catalogue. He's worked in South America, the Middle East, and the former Soviet Union, and he gives us the low-down.