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Colombiano_81 comments on do all good schools in Bogota ask for teaching certificates?

Hey Bill do you know any good ones that dont? that way I wont waste my time passing on resumes to the ones that do!

Colombiano_81 comments on Where to Buy Coca leaves in Bogotá?

bulevar niza mall has a naturals store and I saw the coca tea. Not the leaves mind you but the tea bags in a box. I bought this tea once at corferias on my first trips and I felt nothing. Now my cousin was jabbering all night long.

Colombiano_81 comments on Some questions to answer by our lefties, romy, dolfi and medefockllin and bushwill buck

I dont think youll get a straight answer form them commies.

Colombiano_81 comments on looking for old english language being difficult post

thanks guys but that one isnt it. It was a longer one and much more complicated talking about how one word can be pronounced in so many ways and have somany meanings etc etc sorry I dont have many details. Jimbo I dont need help with my English but thought itd be interesting to show one of my students that post from about 6 months or so ago I think it was.

Colombiano_81 comments on Failing Horribly...Should I call it quits or is there something I'm missing?

maBarker is that really you? I gotta warn you, im highly david deangelo trained so beware.

Colombiano_81 comments on Failing Horribly...Should I call it quits or is there something I'm missing?

bogoday I would go back to the states. Ive been here fo 3 years now almost and dying to go back to Canada with the family. Ive had enough of this place really. Now, I understand you want the experience and all so you might as well live it and find out for yourself what Colombia is all about and stuff or you´ll be killing yourself forever for having wasted the opportunity so my advice is to get giving classes! Try Cambridge Institute in heroes they are always hiring. Also Ingles Bogota and Berlitz. Try posting a native teacher post on mundoanuncio.com. It works like magic everytime I need a new student. Ive even gotten companies wanting English classes. Post Skype English classes ads on there to all over the world and see what happens...(I havent). . I might even have a couple of students I could pass on to you if you´re interested. Let me know. Good luck!

Colombiano_81 comments on Can someone in Bogota please help me?

Edwin, You are too much of a nice guy, too aplogetic, etc etc. Stop it ! Be a man! So many women will take advantage of this... I´m gonna give you The best advice youll ever get as how to deal with women. Trust it and you will NEVER go through something like this again. Google David D Anagelo dating guru. Hell if you want a free copy of his ebook PM me and I will send it to you. Itll change your life guaranteed my friend.

Colombiano_81 comments on Uribe

Yea they´re all thieves in the end but, would you rather have Chavez?

Colombiano_81 comments on Selling full size bed! 380k (Bogota only)

how is the matress? hard or soft? casata?

Colombiano_81 comments on Super beach near(ish) Barranquilla: Santa Veronica

the food looks like regulare veryday colombian food.

Colombiano_81 comments on Andorra court freezes bank accounts linked to Hugo Chávez

has anyone posted any articles about Correa´s drug mule father who spent time in an Atlanta jail?

Colombiano_81 comments on I'm so happy cause I don't work for IH Bogota anymore...

Thanks for the review. Let the morons whine if they dont like your opinion bob. I thought it was quite informative. The sad part is all institutes will give you those hours and in far away places. It comes with the field of work man. Couldnt help LOL at the comment of selling chiclets or sleeping on a bench..haha so true! Mostly for that godawful split (although my classes are private) I waste the transportation money back home or if there is a noon class stick around the internet in the chico (expensive as hell) area for a few hours.

Colombiano_81 comments on thinking of moving to Bogota in the new year

Easy to find a teaching job. Itll pay between 1million and 2 million freelance or with an institute. Or you can try a good school. Not sure about the pay but probably somewhere around the area. Cost of an apartment for the 2 of yous in a good zone around 500 thousand pesos.

Colombiano_81 comments on Tayron Info requested

oh great...then I guess lancha it is.

Colombiano_81 comments on Tayron Info requested

thnks for the advice sapo, chriscan and fred. Hey one last question...I will be taking one or 2 airplane style luggages as I dont own backpacker type ones. There I will have our food and clothes. Im guessing I cannot walk it to the camp so it d be the horse option. Does the horse come with a cart to put your things on? need to know! thnks.

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cedritos in Bogota rooftops

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Zipaquira school kids

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the ladies sit and watch the men drink and play

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Colombiano_81 comments on Drumroll..... T-Shirt voting

# 8b with the colombian hat

Colombiano_81 comments on Drumroll..... T-Shirt voting

can there be a top 3 final vote off?

Colombiano_81 comments on Tayrona cabins? camping?

thats ok rikito im done with you.

Colombiano_81 comments on Tayron Info requested

how much is a boat chriscan?

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thnks for deleting rikitos comment..itw a squite insulting joke or not

Colombiano_81 comments on Tayrona cabins? camping?

yes antithesis they deleted my post. just cuz i called him a diarretic fool that needs to shove his child abuse comments up his robbed behind...(also a joke) ....anyways he seems quite bitter and insults at will yet i dont see his posts being deleted..

Colombiano_81 comments on Tayrona cabins? camping?

who said i wanted to trek? I just wanna enjoy beautiful becahes. Problem? after your posts of child abuse and asking if i was crazy cuz i want to take my family to enjoy some beaches you sounded quite bitter to me old man. Didnt sound like a joke by the way on the post.

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if yall dont mind me not having a cabana and pool..ill just provide smokes and beer if thats ok...hahaha...would love to come. Are kids and wife ok?

Colombiano_81 comments on IQ tests for little kids in Bogota?

eat your hearts out celebrity kids! Mine are cuter.

Colombiano_81 comments on IQ tests for little kids in Bogota?

and check out senor SR and senorito JR

Colombiano_81 comments on IQ tests for little kids in Bogota?

thnks kat..ya think? lol. check out my little senorita at 14 months!

Colombiano_81 comments on Expat gatherings in Bogotá?

thursdays sound good...

Colombiano_81 comments on

is this meetup exclusive for people who already know each other in some way or sort?

Colombiano_81 comments on How would you describe the security situation in Colombia for someone travelling from the United States?

youll be fine and probably will even come to feel safer than home.

Colombiano_81 comments on Brasil, Chile and Spain worried about US Bases in Colombia

Correa had an interview a few days ago with el tiempo newspaper. Anyways I heard on the radio in a taxi cab that he told the reporter off record that he has continuosly asked the Colombian government to pass Ecuador the files of the Reyes computer. The reason, he says, that Uribe doesnt want to give Ecuador the files, is because Lula is mentioend alot in these FARC files. He is apparently protecting Lula from something.

Colombiano_81 comments on Tayrona cabins? camping?

Im taking the babies. Ill just sit around 1 or 2 beaches for 3 days and not walk around too much. maybe I wont get the full experience but wahtever. Did you see any little oens around or none at all? If I just stick around one area is it ok then to take the lil ones (aside from the horseback to get in and out)?

Colombiano_81 comments on Tayrona cabins? camping?

thnks span. What about your belongings? where didyou keep them? and did you have to get a yellow fever shot before youw ent there?

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Canyou take your own tent?

Colombiano_81 comments on T-Shirt Submission finalists (in no particular order).

that chiva on black looks great.

Colombiano_81 comments on How do I Prepare Teaching English to Bogotans? Also looking for an Apartment for me myself and I long term

hey learnersrealm the advice given here is good but you will have your falls and some will be big ones. The best thing you can do is really prepare yourself first if you have the chance to. I didnt and became a teacher through trial and error and it has its disadvantages. I remember getting all red when a student would ask me about something I didnt know how to answer or tried and then would totally contradict myself by mistake and they would find out. If you are not well prepared beforehand you will go through a couple of years of this obviously as time goes by these situations will diminish and you can look back and laugh but on the way they might cost you students and future students not referred because the teacher was just OK. You need to be great if you want work. The students WILL recommend you guaranteed and this is the way you will get class loads here. (By the way no problem getting individual students I can actually recommend some if youd like) My advice: get a basic grammar book with the rules and study. Understand in your head the whys and hows. But with just grammar knowledge its not enough. You also need to know how to manage a class (say 5 people) and also know how to deliver your lesson. I think knowing how you will teach is more important than knowing grammar (and im not talking about just class preparation here Im talking about a method of delivering the lesson). I taught grammar based and with my own style for about 2 and a half years and for almost a year I have been teaching with a method I learnt at a prestigious institute here in Bogota This method is also taught in other places as I have found out. Anyways this method concentrates on listening, repeating and speaking like a baby would learn the language. The method is very controlled, basic and easy to get ..there are specific ways to correct for errors and will show you how to manage the class (what do when and if). I highly recommend it. If you are ineterested in this (has saved me many headcahes) send me a private message. If not you can always pick up a copy of new Interchange levels 1 , 2 and 3 in the panamericana. These are comon here in Bogota and they are complete with student and teacher book so that you can prepeapre teh class the way teh book tells you to (im sure there are more english books like this but thses are the ones I know). But in my experience students tend to get bored as it is traditional classroom style teaching and they ahve seen thses books for a while now.