Wanderlust

What an amazing experience this has been. I’ve met some wonderful people and really learnt to see myself as an individual again which for me has been invaluable after many years of being boring old Mum.

During my CELTA I felt more than a little jealous of the travels my fellow trainees were about to embark on and even in Kent, hearing about all of the adventures everyone had planned for the summer turned me slightly green with envy. But this trip is just the beginning of my adventure into the EFL world. I have learnt to think of myself as a teacher and to be more adaptable within lessons accepting that some activities will work better than others and sometimes you just can’t tell until you are in the thick of it.

I think the most important thing I will take away from this experience is that it doesn’t matter where in the world I start my teaching career. There’s a noisy little house in Norfolk, where my children play in the garden, my dog barks at the postman, my mother turns up unannounced, and my husband hides away from the chaos in his office, and I can think of no better place for me to be. So it’s in Norwich that I will find a job as an EFL teacher and I couldn’t be happier about it. My wanderlust is well and truly cured……for now.