Congrats! You received your TEFL certification and got hired to teach your first class, wherever in the world that may be! Teaching for the first time is both scary and extremely exciting. I’ll never forget my first time teaching in front of a class in Barcelona. I spent about a week planning the perfect first lesson and barely slept the night before. I was absolutely terrified of failing my students who I hadn’t even met yet.  Looking back on my first TEFL class, I realize now there was no reason to be so stressed out about it — and you shouldn’t be either! You were hired over other candidates for…

So you’ve thought about quitting your job, selling all your things, and moving abroad for a while now. You know you want a change but you don’t know the exact logistics of actually being able to support yourself abroad. You have heard of people teaching English overseas before and it always seemed like something a little too off-the-beaten-track for you. You never considered it as a “real” job as you wouldn’t be spending your days inside a corporate office chained to a desk, which is what we have have been trained our whole lives to achieve. Sound somewhat familiar? This is the exact predicament I found myself in a year…