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- Buenos dias, good morning!
My name is Marisa
and I am from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in the United States,
and I am here in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.
So I chose to do my certification
in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, for two reasons:
one, because it's in Mexico,
and two, not only is it right next to the beach, but,
it also has these beautiful.
So I decided to take the in-person certification,
as opposed to the online certification,
because for me personally,
I really like to have that hands-on experience.
Okay, so, since I got up pretty early this morning,
I'm gonna grab some coffee before class
and show you guys my walk to school.
So I live right over there on that corner,
and the school is right across this street.
So the classroom is right here in this plaza,
across the street, and,
the coffee that I get every morning is right here.
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- Hey everyone, my name is Casey, I'm from Tucson, Arizona,
and the thing that I love most
about going through this program
is the teaching practice that we get to do.
It's real-life experience and we get to see
what it's like to be a teacher in the TEFL world.
- Hi, my name's Alan, and I am the program coordinator
in Puerto Vallarta for the TEFL course.
A good piece of advice for every
TEFL trainee that comes to our program is,
don't be intimidated by teaching, okay?
It is hard for everyone
when we begin at first.
Once you gain more classroom experience
and feel comfortable in the classroom,
then you will become more successful in
completing all your teaching practices and all your lessons
and in any classroom scenario that you actually insert.
- Okay, so I have a little bit of time
in between class and my teaching practice,
which is at the orphanage today at four o'clock,
so I just wanted to show you guys my house.
So we are offered student housing here in Puerto Vallarta.
You can choose between the AC housing
and the non-AC housing.
This is the non-AC housing,
which, it does get really hot.
Okay, so when you walk into the house,
you are in the kitchen.
And we are provided water by the school,
so you don't have to pay for drinking water.
This is the kitchen.
This is our kitchen, I'm currently cooking some beans.
And the fridge.
And this is the upstairs.
There are four of us that live in this house,
two downstairs, two upstairs, this is our lounge upstairs.
And this is my bedroom.
I put up some traditional decorations up here,
I put my clothes there, we do have a nice fan,
the ceiling fan, and this is my closet.
This is our bathroom.
It's pretty small but it gets the job done.
Now this is my favorite part about our house.
You go up these steps and to the roof.
So now that we are on the roof,
I'm just gonna do a little bit of a circle for you guys.
So you can see.
Okay so from the roof you can see the yard.
We do have a gate so it is protected.
Right across the street here, behind this fence
is the AC student housing, which,
they also have a pool in this complex.
Hey, so we're at the orphanage to do our teaching practice.
Little bit late (laughs).
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Okay, so, a little fact about tacos is, in Mexico,
they don't ever use hard tacos, it's just the soft shell.
All right, this is Kramer, and we're gonna
ask Kramer what his plans are
after he completes his TEFL certification.
(Marisa laughs)
- I'm gonna probably do more of eating and drinking things,
the ocean is nice I hear,
maybe teach some English at a certain point, you know.
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