Norm Blaisdell
norm624@excite.com


Hello! Yes I really mean hello to all of you. It is a great pleasure to see a web site like ESL Job Find where one can post something like this. Well, life is exciting if you are in Asia. My experiences in this part of the world began with Japan, followed by Taiwan, S Korea and China.

Japan was great but most people where I was, seemed friendly and helpful but cold to Americans at times. The kids were like all kids, interested in what you are doing or what is going on, plus they like to really have fun.

Taipei was very crowded, dirty congested with obnoxious motorclyce drivers with disgusting taxi drivers or bus drivers who chew on some form of nuit and spit it out the window. The school where I worked was huge and had many branches and you can be sent to as many 3 of them in one day and never did they let you remain in one place in Taipei although if you were in the southern parts where only one school was, you stayed there. They were extremely secretive about who owned the school, where the office was and many other things.

Being an inquistive individual and eager to learn about them, my investigation came up with many interesting things and I knew more about them in the end. Basically, it is a front and a good one at that, but then they were not very kind to the teachers; paying a very low amount of money, giving nothing else and they really lied to you just to get you to come and work. They did not screen anyone and most of the teachers were not that great either.

S Korea well I got the shaft and still am owed a great deal of money. I really would not like to go back and work, but to visit is a greater adventure than anything else really. China is wonderful. Nice people and very friendly. Have been here 2 years and at 2 different schools. Love my recuiter and she works hard to make sure I get the best. I will go on to another city in the fall which is great and seeing more of this vast land is wonderful.