With six years of experience as English language teachers, we’ve amassed some…interesting…stories related to our time overseas.
This is the spot where we’ll answer questions like the following: did Tara and Luke really live inside a kindergarten disguised as a castle? Why would anyone want to learn English at 2:30 a.m. using early 2000s video-conferencing technology? How excited can two people get about eating at a Taco Bell, honestly? Find the answers to these questions and more, as we give everyone a peek behind the expat veil.
Escape from Kindergarten
I imagine an untold number of escape plans have been thwarted over the years because of one prisoner’s inability to mask their enthusiasm for the outside world. The other guys involved in the scheme are all telling Mr. Excitement to play it cool in order to keep the guards in the dark, but he just …
EFL Stories: Payday in Osaka
Becoming a vampire has its benefits. I’m not referring to your Bram Stokers, Vlad the Impaler, or even the twinkling variety of vampires—I mean being a functional adult while the rest of the city’s sleeping kind of undead. One such benefit is the ability to take advantage of a nearly empty bar while everyone else …
EFL Stories: Uranus
I’m not sure where it all came from, but something inside of my head just snapped the moment I was handed the microphone. Do it. No one’s gonna know. There were approximately two dozen of us foreign teachers on a stage looking out into a sea of Korean faces, and it was my turn to …
