Actually,

It was a cry for compassion!

unless you have been through it ..you wouldn t know

and FYI

i am very upbeat when the schools call..and recruiters..my voice does not waiver...I do not give the info about my son...that would hold me back.

i provide the docs they request and age and they e mail me to schedule a skype interview...

what kind of teachers are you ..if you cannot show compassion?

show ..not ..tell...

glad to know the last ten years = zero

Drive through hell and back to go and claim a child's body, use every available resource and savings you have to do it, pay rent and bills and try to maintain some sense of equilibrium..
while you drive 2k miles ...knowing that the only reason you are doing it is to bring yourself the worst grief imaginable..


then go thru your child's things, wait for his personal effects to be returned to you....remember lovingly all the letters you wrote him and read them again...look at the things he held dear ..and hold them in your hand...close up the trunk...take the flag they gave you...keep it in his flight bag for the return drive 2k miles back to where you live..

drive thru tornadoes while you sit on a highway and your car rocks and parts of your car...blow off the sides..and you wish it was your car going up in the funnels...

spend 10 days in a state in hotels because the governor says it is not safe to drive and the highway was closed...watch trucks flip, trees get torn in half..etc etc

then go through another tornado and heavy rains and dry lightning in another city..

and then you try to comfort the one son you have left who cannot come to the states due to having no funds due to his brother dying at such an inopportune time and you didn t earn enough money the month before..only 11 days and you

as a mother you listen to him weep on the phone .and you both break down in such a state ..never know if you will recover...and i still do not

to this day..know how i am getting through it when i wake up

and..it is only because i have the son in japan..that i feel that i must keep going for his sake..because
he would never recover if i didn t.

then and only then psyguy
can you tell a person..from the high perch you sit on..

the things that you say in your previous post..

hopefully..you and yours will never ever know the pain we are feeling...the overwhelming sense of loss ..and i mean that from the inside out.

i am hurting and your words should not have been put down in a public forum..

so...that being said..

i think i will refrain from visiting this forum too often...

I substitute taught for 4 years in public schools.
Taught chemistry labs for a year at a university and 2 labs for a semester at a community college.

several years in SK and a semester in Russia. Ya..the TEFL is an online..cert

talked to my son..he said i can come there..but have to get a rt or have another destination to go forward

However, two schools ...both colleges are interested and have up to 65 for age limit..so...will c

also...about the landlord..found out he has to give 30 days in writing...i have an agmt that says...30 days notice...that is the law in most states if you pay monthly...

plus..being over 59 ...i qualify for even another 30 days per the law...and he has to say this on a 30 day notice..

he cant give me one until Wed..so he ll just have to accept that...

and found out that i can pay a buck for the five days in NV..called my state UT and they say..if ur registration expires..u go to the local dmv and pay for the permit..and it is a buck for five days..then
i can get a 15 day drive away...after the time i need..can keep paying the buck for five days ...

per dmv
and then the car can go in a storage unit and i can go!

so think i have a handle on this...hopefully

keep your fingers crossed.....

I would have no funds to last in a hotel..trying to find work that way...

I know...I have been writing everywhere and I am 61
cut off is 60 most countries...some in China till 65

SA not great for women...really!

friend of mine went there..female...and male..friends
male gets out of the airport..female goes through the back way with curtains on both sides and gets on a bus with curtains all around...

shopping expeditions are of course chaperoned...you live on a compound, etc..like a fishbowl

Korea is a good place..they pay the airfare upfront..have office tels..good pay..first two years no tax..i taught there several years..

public school..not hagwons..private academies

have your friend do a TEFL course if not already...can do from anywhere usually..Korea too

Korea is hiring now...for aug and sept..they have great summer and winter intensive camps to earn cash..made 3k in a winter camp for four weeks ..at Inha university...so try that

sometimes ..at uni jobs you may have to pay insurance...friend pays 220 at age 50..i was told at one uni id have to pay 700 usd...wouldnt mind..
my son is in Japan and he pays 100 a month..but everyone does ..for medical insurance..he says..no matter the age
japan is very expensive to live...been there to visit and do visa runs in Fukuoka...expensive..not to great on using our ATM s at mcdonald s , restaurants, ets..if it weren t for a starbucks..i woulda starved on my visa run lol

korea requires fbi check..costs 18 and takes 4-6 weeks..so if your friend is in a hurry China way to go

just want to know if there is a mandatory age limit in Iraq.? .a school official wants to interview on Skype

Everyone has written back stating 61 is too old.

no one is offering any job whatsoever..not to teach chemistry or ESL.

plum running out of time..car needs registration by next week..(*that money was being saved for plane ticket)

lease ends the first and a new person is moving in..so that puts me in nowhere land..
and
too old to get anything at 61..grrrrr

I am applying all over the globe...the age thing is killing me here...

one school will go forward..a uni..as I was a referral to their admin person..$700 med ins a year

waiting to hear on that one..

in Vegas so applied to Mexico..not a lot of money..but live cheap..love tacos lol..not far from me

apps to Vietnam, Taiwan, Turkey, China..trying not to use recruiters..seem to be a waste of energy...and oxygen..lol

let the schools know up front am 61 and ask if it is an issue..so spent every night sending out apps..cvs

let s see if last night was productive!

I do use Dave's and have a resume posted..as do I on seriousteachers.com and responded to ads on the diff countries' Craigslist ads..

*Micky

Can you recommend places in China I can contact ..schools directly?

taught chem labs at two universites..plus subbed and taught overseas.

*cdn

urgent that I get to go somewhere to teach now..with upfront ticket


high interest loans ..for the ticket for me ..that route

since i had to take care of my son..after he was killed..AF took care of a lot..it still hurt me all the way around..

Not new to international..been in Russia and Korea.

but need to go ASAP

anyone know a school I can contact directly..I m a chemist as well as teach ESL.

Every school, every recruiter has told me I had to purchase my own ticket to get to China.

that is great for China..but Korea for example..even though I worked for a few yrs in 2009 will not accept anything less than federal...not even able to use a channeler like it is posted on FBI site..due to no apostille!

Do any schools pay airfare up front?

I did turn down the other job at Zibo.

However, so strapped for cash..that TIE is not an option right now.

My son in Japan needs to have me closer to him as he could not make it to the funeral.

He is overwhelmingly sad and needs me nearer.

I cannot pay the airfare to a school...can t get the FBI check fast enough for Korea..even though worked there until 2009

I did send letters to the schools given me..i.e. Clifford School and the like..no response yet.

Thailand only offered 20/hr and only part time work..that won t work..I can do that in the states at Walmart lol

so..IF someone knows a school that is hiring or is working at a school...let me know. pm me...or
dimnd@yahoo.com