Following on the heels of her last article entitled 5 Things You Shouldn’t Expect While Teaching in Thailand, guest writer Andrea Emerson now writes about her top five reasons for teaching in Bangkok.
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Guest Article by Andrea Emerson This is Andrea Emerson, Bangkok based expat English teacher. I have spent over a year teaching English to hormone riddled teenagers, attempting to photograph fire balloons and generally not going on any dates, and now I would like to impart some of my wisdom from this crazy adventure. If you’d like to learn more about teaching in Thailand, Bangkok specifically, or even if you just want to know where on earth to buy women’s essentials in this land that doesn’t really ‘do’ tampons, you’ve come to the right place. Hello! Welcome to the Land of Smiles. As an expat teaching in Thailand, one of the first lessons you must learn is this: take what you think is logical, and forget it. I don’t say that to be harsh, whether to anyone visiting Thailand or its citizens. I say that to save you a lot of time ripping your hair out. So, let’s work backwards. Before you can decide whether teaching in Thailand is for you, it’s best to eliminate reasons that might make teaching in Thailand a bad fit. This will be done in no particular order. Also I would like to point out that
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