EGYPT!
My departure date is uncertain, as we are waiting for the Egyptian government to issue my work visa. School starts around September 18th, so it should be within a few weeks.
I haven't updated my blog, well really, at all lately. I have a feeling that once I settle in Cairo, I'll be back to blogging. I'll need something to come back to that feels familiar and will also offer a chance to express myself.
After a month in Egypt with my dear Ahmed, I came back to NH for a week before heading to Boston to take the strangely exalted CELTA course (Certificate of English Teaching to Adults). For some reason, the CELTA is the most sought after qualification for teaching in the Middle East. I had never heard of it before I started looking into a teaching career in Egypt. The course proved to be, indeed, difficult, in many different ways. Perhaps I'll post more on that later, but I'll say now that if I knew what I would have to endure during the course before doing it, I wouldn't have done it. Certification or not.
Anyway, the school that hired me is run by a corporation which has companies in telecomunnication and construction, and is also active in charity.
Here's a little commercial:
I'm looking forward to meeting my students and all the teachers and administration. I'll have freedom with my lessons, and these kids will have lots of fun as well as be challenged. I can't wait.
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