Saturday, August 16, 2008
¡Spain!
I've wanted to visit Spain for a while. It seemed like the perfect place to do a stint working and travelling, but after a little research I came to realize Spain's kind of a tough place for North American ESL teachers who prefer to work over the table when possible. The steady stream of Brits flowing into Spain with their EU work permits means no Spanish ESL school in going to go out of their way to arrange the papers for someone this side of the Atlantic. And working illegally can be tough, especially in the bigger cities where cost of living is high and it can be hard to make ends meet. Sigh.
But then I found out about the Auxiliares de Conversación program.
The Spanish government organizes for teachers from all over North America to work as native-English-speaking resources for Spanish ESL teachers in schools and language centres all over the country. Students get some exposure to a native speaker and learn about North American culture, and the North Americans get to know Spain from the inside out.
So I applied, and, well...I'm leaving September 15th! I'll be in Bilbao, in the Basque Country, until June 15th. I've been assigned to two secondary schools in the suburbs of Bilbao, where I'll be working for the 2008-2009 school year.
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