(chill synthesizer music)
- Good morning everyone!
It's Erin, coming to you from San Juan Del Sur, Nicaragua.
I am from Austin, Texas and have been living here
for about a year and a half.
I am about to get ready for school,
but I just wanted to show you guys a view from
my balcony in my apartment.
I live right in town, and about three blocks from the beach.
So, I've actually already gotten a few questions
in my personal DMs about my visa.
I'm on a tourist visa, so I leave the country every 90 days,
and I just do a quick in and out to Costa Rica.
It takes about two hours usually each.
Okay, guys, I am about to finish getting ready,
but send me your questions, and I will see you at school.
Okay, guys, I just got to school.
It's about 7:30 a.m.,
I'm gonna just show you a bit.
This is our playground.
That's the secondary school over there.
It's located on a huge farm,
so plenty of room for the kiddos to run around.
This is my classroom over here.
I teach a group of 18 two to four year olds.
And about 90% of them are ESL.
(kids and teacher singing "The Ants go Marching")
Teacher Erin is the best.
I am on my way home from school now, I don't have
transportation so I ride the bus home with the
little kiddos. Um, yah take a look at the farm.
(kids giggling and talking)
So I notice a lot of you guys are sending me messages
to my personal account, which is awesome.
I just wanted to make it a little bit easier,
and give you guys my handle.
I've received a lot of questions about teaching online,
I taught online for my first year living here in San Juan.
The apartments here do not provide adequate wifi
but you can rent a modem for about $60 a month.
They'll set it up in your home and for most online
companies it is adequate speed for online teaching.
So I just posted a cost of living break down,
as you can see right now I am currently breaking even.
However it is very possible to save if you are teaching
online as well.
One of the best parts of my day is
an afternoon beach walk.
San Juan is so beautiful.
It's about to be rainy season so the clouds are out.
I volunteered to couch swim class today and just wanted
to show off my-
Not bad.
A lot of you have asked my favorite part of Nicaragua,
and I am going to show you.
I just got home and wanted to answer a few of your
guys' questions before I sign off for the night.
The first one being 'is a bachelor's degree required to
teach abroad', in my case I do have a bachelor's degree.
So it wasn't an issue for me, I think in Nicaragua you
could find a job without one if you had enough
supplemental experience.
I have also gotten a lot of questions about how safe I feel,
being a woman and along with all of the political turmoil
happening in Nicaragua.
Here in San Juan it's more of a tourist town,
it's very community-centered, so I've never felt unsafe
here. It's kind of like a productive bubble.
There's lots of members of the community both local and
ex-pat that I feel very safe.
Okay guys, I'm signing off for the night but please
feel free to message me on my personal Instagram if you
have any other questions about Nicaragua.
I love it here and would be happy to help you guys
in any way that I can. Thanks!
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