Interesting Way To Get To Your TEFL Destination

I have always wanted to take a cruise. I think it would be a fun thing to go to my next teaching destination on a cruise. Ok, I know it sounds kind of crazy, but it’s actually a pretty cool way to get from one place to another. I remember that a school in Honduras was offering free transportation down to Honduras via container ship to anyone wanting to teach at their school. Alas, I never did take them up on that offer so I am still waiting for a TEFL cruise destination.

Teacher Tries To Find A Job

TEFL Teachers have a good sense of humor so it was not a surprise to see this really funny video from a guy who gave up his job and life in the US to go and live in Thailand. Like many new TEFL teachers, he fell into the career of teaching English in a foreign country. Join him as he looks for TEFL jobs in three different locations. It’s very funny, but it doesn’t quit seem true. He actually doesn’t take any the jobs because he has too much pride.

Nazi Celebration in Bangkok

Thewpaingarm School in Bangkok is just a funky place if reading the forums in any indication. In the forum thread, we got to read a little about the common problems that TEFL teachers everywhere complain about; unsupportive administration, low pay, bad students, etc. It was a run of the mill thread until the bomb dropped.

See Sports Day in Thailand is a little about sports, but more than that the school is divided into teams. These large teams take on a theme. Some might dress like cowboys, some might dress like ladyboys, some might dress like ??? You get the idea.

The bombshell was that the students had participated in a Nazi celebration complete with singing, dancing and a parade. I thought, yeah right. It ain’t true. That was until the pictures were posted and the truth got out there.

It’s a crazy, funky situation. Why the hell would any school let their students dress up like Nazis? I guess it goes to show how opening and welcoming of other cultural influences people in Thailand are ….and from the same people who supported the Axis in World War II.

I have attached a few pictures here but there are many more in the forum thread.

Update: 8/2008: The Simon Wiesenthal Center got involved shortly after the publicizing of these pictures and the school has supposedly apologized, but like many apologies, it seemed rather fake.