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More classes
September 29, 2013
First of all, my computer has been dead due to a dead battery, due to a dead charger/ac adapter. I still have not had enough money to buy another adapter so am borrowing one. Hopefully soon I will have enough to buy an adapter/charger. I am quite surprised by the lack of HP computers and adapters/chargers here. Seems most laptops are not HP but Lenovo or other brands.
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More students, Yay!
September 9, 2013
This past week a friend of mine, or more accuratly, my girlfriend, Belkis, helped me with looking at some classifieds online for job listings for English teachers. There were a couple of promising ads so I created a CV letter and sent it off to them. The next day I got a phone call from one of the companies. They are called Starway and are a new company, a new branch of an existing company. So I got called in for an interview with Daniel and Alejandros.
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Looks like I'm playing sax again!
August 31, 2013
Hi! So what's new here? Let's see. I have been to at least 5 schools to ask about working for them as an English teacher, so far I get responses like "We will talk to the kids' parents and find out how many want lessons" or "We will talk to the administrators". Almost every school here has at least one English teacher teaching English classes. But what I have learned is that they are all Colombians who know English only well enough to teach it, and not fluent in the language.
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Jorge Borjas - scammer, liar, cheater
August 14, 2013
Jorge Borjas, the man who was supposed to be working with me to start an English school here in Soledad, is nothing more than a liar, a scammer no different from the ones in Nigeria or Ghana or many other countries, and a cheat. I could use much more 'colorful' language but I won't here.
Jorge Borjas - he supposedly added me to the legal papers making me 49% owner of his company and we were to open an English school. I've never seen such papers with my name on them, so I don't believe that ever happened.
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Billiards, Football and another strike
July 5, 2013
First off, last week I mentioned a bit about many roadside bars, restaurants and billiards places. Billiards if very popular here in Colombia. There are many, many billiards places all over the city, in just about every neighborhood. They may have from 2 billiards tables on up to a dozen or more. Most are just a few tables and a refrigerator for beer. Many of the roadside bars, if you can call them a bar, are just a small building, often no bigger than a typical American backyard shed, and some tables and chairs outside under an awning. The small building is just for storing the beer.
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