The time has (finally!) come for me to be off on my travels again.
In January-February, I qualified as an Teacher of English as a Foreign Language after 4 grueling weeks of sleep deprivation & a lot hard work lesson planning & writing my assignments. I've been working in London where I trained for a few weeks to gain some experience. However, this week, I have confirmed a position in Ecuador & I leave on March 23rd.
Everything feels as though it's happening very fast but then again, if life wasn't fast paced I'd
get bored!
So what exactly will I be doing?
This is a very good question - I don't have many details myself yet! I'll be living & working in Ecuador's main beach holiday destination, Salinas. This is approximately two hours away from Guayaquil, one of Ecuador's bigge
st cities.
I've been told that I'll be working in a public school & a private school though this is all I know at the moment. I'm also hoping to learn Spanish whilst I'm out there (to some level or another). It has been said by some *shifty eyes* that I only made a half hearted attempt to learn Chinese so what will be different about Spanish? Well, to start, Chinese was a completely alien language & I it took me a month to learn 1-10, let alone anything of much conversational substance! (And I can already count to 10 in Spanish, so I'm one step ahead of my Chinese skills!) Also, I learnt French at school which has some (though not many) similarities to Spanish which I'm hoping will help a bit.
However, before I start work, I will be in Peru for 8 days. I have signed up to do the Lares Trek from Cuzco, through the Inca region to the Machu Picchu. I'm very excited as I've never really done anything like this before but the Inca region seems a very interesting place, not to mention the rich history behind it. You can see the route we'll be taking below on the map & afterwards, I'll upload all my photos of "breathtaking beauty and scenery".
After the trek, I'll fly back to Guayaquil (April 5th) to begin work on April 7th in Salinas.
I'm assuming I'll be able to update the blog regularly as I did when I was in China, but obviously I don't quite know what to expect at the moment.
Wish me luck!
xx
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