Notes from the TEFL Graveyard

Wistful reflections, petty glories.

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Location: The House of Usher, Brazil

I'm a flailing TEFL teacher who entered the profession over a decade ago to kill some time whilst I tried to find out what I really wanted to do. I like trying to write comedy (I once got to the semi-finals of a BBC Talent competition, ironically writing a sitcom based on TEFL), whilst trying to conquer genetically inherited procrastination... I am now based in Brazil, where I live with my wife and two chins.

Thursday, 30 April 2009

... IT IS NOW!

Today is my last day at the school.

It'll be a relief, not least because I've been combining it with ploughing my way through a variety of enormous translations, like a 16th-century Bandeirante hacking his way throught the Mata Atlântica, and various tribes of breakfasting indigenous peoples, with a razor sharp facão.

Thanks to all who have sent their missives of advice, best wishes, and ego-eroding insults, the latter of which, the sages tell us, are the work of our greatest friends.

I recently received an entertaining drive-by insult, which is the very stuff that makes the Internet such a bubbling cauldron of free speech. For those that missed it, here it is reproduced verbatim for posterity:


Anonymous said...
I am watching you AND your irksome architraves. Behind my veil I am LUGHING HA HA HA at your woebegone non-spark FAILURE OF EFFULGENCE.
I am THE breakfast man.


The spelling, the syntax, the inventive use of a moulded or ornamental band framing a rectangular opening - it all points to it being a current or ex-student of mine.

Another good reason to pack up my troubles in my old kit bag and smile, smile, smile.

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4 Comments:

Blogger Gadjo Dilo said...

This is a momentous day: I do hope that you'll bring a Kalashnikov into skool or perhaps leave an enormous, steaming jobby on the classroom carpet.

(But if I was you I wouldn't emphasise the fact that this orthographically challenged leftover from the breakfasting indigenous peoples is a current or ex-student of yours).

1 May 2009 at 03:09  
Blogger The TEFL Tradesman said...

No, that's definitely the talented ALbanian bloke I trained for an interview with RADA. I think he flunked the interrogation, and is now teaching EFL himself...

1 May 2009 at 14:17  
Blogger No Good Boyo said...

Edward Lear's living was not in vain.

6 May 2009 at 06:47  
Anonymous Bert said...

good luck MC, you know I wish you the best! promise to avoid brahma on the 23rd!

ta ta

13 May 2009 at 08:27  

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