Thursday April 23, 2009
Sex, Drugs and ESL
Jessica Olien
In These Times
New laws policing foreign teachers in Thailand are mostly ignored.
Like many young English teachers abroad, I was enthusiastic about—but woefully under-qualified for— my new profession. I wanted to see some of the world before I transitioned to another “more respectable” job.
So, after graduating from college, I flew to Thailand and took a bus to a fishing village a few hours east of Bangkok, where I spent three weeks binge-drinking and hanging out on the beach with 15-or-so classmates—and emerged with certification to teach English to speakers of foreign languages.
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