hello,

thanks for your responses. I understand exactly what you mean about feeling safe walking around. What I was more referring to was political climate - i.e. in Canada, there might be some crime in Toronto but I'm reasonably sure that I'm in a democracy and it would be insanely unlikely for the goverment to crumble or riots to break out. I guess that' the sort of thing they're addressing on the CBC; political climate in a global sense. I understand that no where is 100% safe.

I'm not sure why you would feel the need, pikefish, to jump down my throat when i asked a simple question but I empathise with the fact that you feel safer in SE Asia than you do in America. All the best to you.

Thanks again for the other more constructive responses. I'm continuing to look into it and I appreciate your input.

Beth

Hello,

I'm wonding if anyone is in SE Asia, specifically Singapore, Jakarta, Thailand, Kuala Lumpur...and can tell me what it's like there at the moment. Do you feel safe? My husband is at this point putting the kybosh on applying to those places because he doesn't think it's a safe place to be and too unstable.

Thoughts?

Thanks! :)

Beth

hello,

thanks for your amazing stories. you sound like us right now - family all around us, jobs, two kids, and sitting on the fence trying to decide for september 2011. and i hear you about the RESEARCH. i've been looking at everything.

i'd love to ask you some more questions about where you were, etc. i wish the pm feature wasn't disabled! it would be great to be able to talk to someone one on one about the job fair situation and everything. i always feel like i'm just finding bits and pieces of information different places, and you always have to be wondering if the people who post the reviews are just bitter.

thanks again,

Beth :)

Thanks for your reply. I appreciate it. The othe one I'm looking into is Qatar Academy in Doha. It gets pretty mixed reviews but the latest ones look good...I'm going to be an expert in schools of the middle east before I'm through with all this! :)

beth

hello,

I'm wondering if anyone can share a good experience in Doha with me? I'm looking into ASD at the moment. We're a Canadian teaching couple with two school-aged children.

Thanks so much. :)

Beth

thanks for the reply! there are a couple of schools i'm interested in in oman. would you mind if i contacted you to talk about your school? i can't make the pm function work here. do you know how to make it work?

Thanks! :)

Hello...

I'm new to these boards but not so much to the game...I taught at two international schools in Italy years ago and now my family are looking to go abroad again. I have a couple of questions that maybe someone can answer.

I was thinking I would do the fair thing but I'm reading around and now I think that maybe I should start just contacting schools directly. (for sept., 2011) Do schools hire that way? Do most people do the hiring fair thing or should I be sending my c.v.? I'm thinking of trying to find somewhere in the UAE or possibly Oman or Singapore or Bangkok. I would probably go to Europe again but I've sort of done that and would like to try something different. Also a break from cold winters would be grand. :)

Another question - do most schools want a medical history and if they do, how picky are they about that? We are a teaching couple with two school aged kids. If you have a medical condition that's stable and you've been working with no problems for years, do you think it would be a problem? I notice some places want to know that.

Thanks in advance. Any other tips or advice, please feel free to pm me. I'd love to hear from anyone at a school in any of those places with your take on it.

Thanks again.