Almost ready to go and am sitting surrounded by boxes, with my bags packed, and experiencing a strange mixture of emotions - a reluctance to leave Spain and friends mixed with expectation and a nervous excitment about what the next few months will hold. It's so good to be living in an age of Facebook, Skype and mobiles for keeping in contact with family and friends - although we'll have to wait to see how we manage to find our way around the sim cards and dongles available and the 6 hour time difference will be interesting.
So we set off for a new adventure - an intensive TEFL course in Costa Rica (Teaching English as a Foriegn Language) with the aim of obtaining a professional qualification which will open up a new world of employment to help us secure future work experience and jobs. We know we won't earn a fortune doing this but we should be able to earn enough to get by. It's brilliant to be able to do this in Costa Rica - we'll still be practising our Spanish (which in my case needs the practice) and it's an amazing country to explore and spend time in whilst studying and re-training (enabling us to 'go travelling' at an age when we should probably know better)!
Costa Rica is a developing country where learning English can literally change someone's life prospects. However, it's also interesting to note that, whilst the Spanish economy is currently rather gloomy, Spain is a country investing in trying to ensure that as many people as possible are able to speak English. In fact there are quite a lot of TEFL job opportunities here, in Spain, second only to China. Workwise we'll just have to see what happens, and what we can make happen - which I'm sure is plenty!
In the meantime we've checked in online, chosen our seats on the plane and the decision is made - my beautiful shoes are packed and ready to go!!
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