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Ask Matt: How Do I Find a Teaching Job in Taiwan?

September 14, 2015September 20, 2010 by Matt

Dear Matt,

I’m thinking of moving to Taiwan, but I’ve heard there are not as many teaching jobs as there used to be. Are there still many jobs? How can I improve my chances of finding one?

Thanks!

Cliff

Dear Cliff,

When I first arrived in Tainan six years ago I would be approached on the street and in restaurants by people who needed teachers. When I went to an interview, I would be interviewing the school, rather than the school interviewing me. Teachers were in very high demand. Schools would accept anybody.

Traveling with Children: An Interview with Debbie Dubrow of Delicious Baby Part 2

September 14, 2015September 19, 2010 by Matt

This is the second part of a two-part interview with Debbie Dubrow, author of Delicious Baby. Part 1 can be read here.

MG: Were you nervous the first time you traveled with your children? What did you expect it to be like?

Traveling with Children: An Interview with Debbie Dubrow of Delicious Baby Part 1

November 22, 2012September 5, 2010 by Matt

Sure, Tim Cahill will go drunken diving for poisonous sea snakes, and Rolf Potts will try to sneak onto the set of The Beach in a Thai fishing boat, but that’s nothing. If you want brave, talk to Debbie Dubrow. She travels with her husband and their three children aged 5, 3, and 1. That’s three children to take care of on airplanes and in hotel rooms, restaurants, and taxicabs all over the globe.

Tony Eitnier and Thomas Arnold of Contemporary Nomad on Travel Blogging | Transitions Abroad

April 27, 2011August 31, 2010 by Matt

An interview with Tony Eitnier and Thomas Arnold, a couple who were forced into perpetual travel when the exclusionary marriage laws in their respective countries prevented them both from obtaining a visa in the other’s home country.

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Check It Out: A Photographer’s Journey Through Sri Lanka

November 26, 2019August 26, 2010 by Matt

My friend Garret Clarke went to Sri Lanka for two weeks this summer to shoot a reclusive and rarely photographed tribe called the Dambana Vedda, but he came back from the trip with five sweet series’.

Ask Matt: Finding a Teaching Job in Taiwan Through a Recruiter

September 15, 2015August 23, 2010 by Matt

Hi Matt, I like your site!

I just landed a job at a language school in Taiwan, teaching both kindergarten and elementary age kids. I found the job through IACC.

I have a few questions:

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Ten Quotes About Walking

November 22, 2012July 26, 2010 by Matt

Why would I write a list of walking quotes? Today wrote a a query letter to a magazine editor about an article about different walks that a person can take in Taiwan. While looking up quotations to use in the query I suddenly remembered how much I used to enjoy walking. When I first started traveling, whenever I arrived in a new city, after putting my things in a hostel, the first thing I would do was walk down random streets and alleys and I wouldn’t stop until I had gotten myself good and lost. That would usually take one or two hours, and finding my way back several more. One my first trip outside of North America ( I was 18 at the time) I spent eight hours lost in Madrid at night. It was the most exciting thing that I had ever done. I explored cobblestone alleys and unknown plazas and wandered among centuries old pillars holding up centuries old roofs. I saw gangs of street hoods and tapa bars filled with overweight, overly made-up prostitutes — things I’d never seen before in my life. I was even accosted by one extremely persistent old hooker missing several teeth who insisted in walking arm-in-arm with me and chattering away to me in Spanish even though it was obvious that I didn’t speak Spanish and wasn’t going to give her any money.