So, here it is. The reason I ended up taking a TEFL course. About eight years ago I decided to return to Colombia from The United States. I had been living there for many years. I was around fifteen when I got there. I hadn´t pursued a career path, and I was willing to do pretty much anything while I was living there. I had taken a few classes in college, but nothing outside the required English classes. When I returned to Colombia, I worked initially for some friends in their restaurant since I had a little experience in that from the past. But the Good Lord had other plans for my life. I went into a church led by North American folk and they pointed to an opportunity with a language institute here in the city of Bogotá, Called ICL. There were three teachers in this institute who wanted to lend me a hand and offered to show me the ropes. Show me the ropes for the ones not familiar with this expression means to teach a certain way of doing things in a job or any other event. So I trained with them for around Three months and was offered a job at a school. My experience in the school was bitter and sweet at the same time. I experienced many interesting aspects of teaching but I didn’t know enough about teaching English to have success. After that the years to follow would be filled with similar learnig experiences, but never a complete success. During the year 2004, I had many life changing events happening in my life. I had to return to The united States because of an illness in my my family. I spent a year there, and was able to take a certificate course in early childhood education. I took the course inspired by a new friend who was teaching young children of low income backgrounds here in Bogotá. I returned to Colombia to be with the rest of my family and recently became familiar with the TEFL scene through a free seminary I found in the paper. I was very interested but set the idea aside. Finally I was introduced to a gentleman who would became one of my employers. He interviewed me and told me that he had some pre-requisites for me if I was to be employed by him. He asked that I take the TEFL course and he would provide the work time for me to earn the money and pay for the course. So I enrolled for a TEFL course , to start on November first of 2006. Here I am more than half way done with the course and I would like to share with you, my experience and the results form this experience. I am going to write in this blog as much as I can remember and can share with you.
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