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Meet Brandi, an amazing woman who decided to travel down to South America in search of a new experience. After years of working in a different career, she decided to pack up her bags and pursue her life long dream of teaching English. Check out all of Brandi’s amazing teaching adventures in Argentina. You were originally on a much different career-path. What made you switch to teaching. I have alw...[Read More]

Hailing from the UK, Marcus Hatcher has an adventure-loving attitude and plenty of passion for English teaching. Read on to find out about Marcus’ experience teaching English in Europe, finding love and what he’s up to now… What inspired you to go abroad? I have always loved traveling and Romania seemed such an exciting and interesting country to visit! I was looking for a different way to spend t...[Read More]

Emma Slomkowski is a South African woman and graduate of the University of Pretoria—After studying law for a few years, she decided to try the life of an English teacher abroad and hasn’t looked back since! Don’t mistake Emma’s light-hearted spirit as being ditzy (she’s a smart cookie and you can rarely pull a fast one on her!). Just ask her ESL students in Vietnam: Their language skills have impr...[Read More]

You might think that the only way to use a TEFL certificate is to teach English abroad or to teach English online, but you’d be wrong. Meet Audrey and learn about the unique way that her TEFL certificate prepared her for her current volunteer project—working with refugees in England to improve their English language proficiency. You use your TEFL certification in a unique way—as in, you’re not cur...[Read More]

Do you find yourself wondering what’s over the horizon or across the sea? Want to begin something new, and exciting? We’ve got the solution for you! VaughanTown’s incredible immersion program will allow you to make your escape and to improve your English teaching skills all in one go. First, let’s look at all the incredible benefits you’ll enjoy when gaining live teaching practice in Spain. 1. Loc...[Read More]

Annalyssa’s life has been a whirlwind of travels and adventures, so it’s no surprise that she ended up biting the bullet and living abroad full time! Now a teacher in Myanmar, Annalyssa got her start as a TEFL teacher in Taiwan. Trilingual and full of life, read on to learn more about her journey from California to overseas! Tell us about your journey to teaching abroad. Did you go to college? Stu...[Read More]

Briana, a native of Tampa and graduate in Music Education at Clearwater Christian College, didn’t know that her future path included teaching English abroad in Beijing, China! After teaching herself Mandarin with the help of Chinese movies (impressive!), she knew there was one destination for her: the Middle Kingdom itself. Learn more about Bri’s journey to the life of an ESL teacher in Asia! Tell...[Read More]

What happens when a young woman from Cornwall takes a chance on life when she needed a break from the ordinary? Read on to learn Jenny’s TEFL story on how she ended up in the “middle of nowhere” Thailand—and loved it. When did teaching abroad catch your eye? Did you always want to travel as a kid, or was this a later in life aspiration? I traveled Southeast Asia two years ago, I completely fell in...[Read More]

Abe might not be your typical TEFL success story, but his story is still 100% worth hearing. After getting his 120 hour TEFL certification, Abe dreamed of teaching in China—but life had a different (more diaper-filled and joyous) path carved out for him. Now the father of a young baby, he’s loving teaching English online to Chinese and Indonesian students amidst transferring to Brigham Young Unive...[Read More]

We’ve previously talked to Sheldon about his experiences as a TEFL teacher in Japan. He’s having such a good time there that he’s not coming home anytime soon! Let’s hear more about his experiences and how he sustains his life as an expat abroad. We LOVE your photos from abroad—they clearly indicate that you have a lot of personality! 🙂 Do you feel most like yourself when you’re traveling and teac...[Read More]

A native of Mexico, Erick García Plasencia has an unusual background for an ESL teacher abroad. A combination of an inspiring father and video games lead him to not only English fluency, but fluency in six languages! Read about his journey to Japan and home again—find the courage to start your own career as an ESL teacher abroad (whether or not you’re from a native English speaking country!). Befo...[Read More]