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- Good morning from Puerto Montt, Chile, how's it going?
I'm about to start three classes,
it's 7 AM, so yeah.
Normally I would be in Concepcion,
but due to the Coronavirus and certain circumstances,
I am currently living in Puerto Montt,
in the South of Chile,
but it's certainly beautiful here.
So, I'll get into that later.
But for now I'm about to do three hours of classes.
So, I'll get back to you guys.
I'm gonna put something for you to
be able to put some questions in for me really early.
So, I'll be looking forward to those.
So, see you around.
Okay, I'm gonna start answering some questions.
The first one is this,
and the answer is yes.
I just posted some information about
how much it costs to live here
and how much I earn from my job.
But I'm gonna continue talking about this.
One of the most important things to know about Chile
is that in comparison to the rest of Latin America,
Chile has prices that resemble American
and European numbers.
But this does not mean that it's difficult to live here,
because you typically earn a wage that matches that.
And so, especially if you have a job that's online teaching
through International TEFL Academy.
This can be very convenient for you,
because I don't think it's difficult at all.
And your money goes a lot further.
So yes, my answer is definitely yes to this question.
Yes, I definitely agree.
So in the last post, I put some reasons
why anyone should move to Chile,
but in the next part, I'm gonna talk about
why I personally moved here
and why it was difficult and some problems I had.
So, like I was saying in the image,
the language school that I got hired by
allowed me to have a visa,
but I worked through italki
to get the majority of my income.
But no, I did this when I got here
and that's totally possible.
All right, so this is a typical day of me teaching
on the bed or on the desk that I showed you earlier.
I work on italki.
So, I'm gonna show you what the italki interface looks like.
This is a website that just let's students
pick whatever teacher they want, amongst thousands.
You can choose language,
you can choose the country that they're from,
and you can also put the price
on how much you want to sell you a product for.
And then you typically meet on Skype after that.
So, what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna show you guys
an interview of one of my students
telling you guys about our classes.
- Hello, my name is Alicia, I'm from Spain,
from the South of Spain called (indistinct)
from Seville but I have been living in Barcelona
for about 10 years.
And I started to learn,
I started learning English with Chris,
because I had to practice so much,
my speaking, how you can see.
I need it for my job.
I have just started in a new job, in may.
- And what do you do in classes?
Tell them what do you think about the classes
and what we typically do in a day of classes.
- Okay, I think that my classes with Chris
are so interesting,
because he focus
on the functional English
to make me speak English more fluently,
with all my partners.
It's not only focused on the grammar,
but I study.
- Okay, now we're going to the supermarket.
I'm gonna show you guys a little bit of the neighborhood,
how things look out here.
And then on top of that, of course, the supermarket.
So, you're gonna see that in a little bit.
One of the things I love about Chile
is that there's always places to buy food,
even in neighborhoods.
You can find that everywhere.
This is one of the places I'm talking about.
You can find a bunch of food all over.
In the neighborhood and there's always bread.
Chile is huge on bread,
number two eater of bread in the world.
So, now we're gonna go into the supermarket.
And of course, they take really strict measures,
nobody is allowed without a mask on
and you have to get your temperature taken.
So we're gonna go do that.
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