Chris Backe left Kentucky for Korea, where he lived in Seoul and taught English as a way to create for himself an opportunity to make travel a bigger, more regular part of his day-to-day.
Last year, he and his wife moved to Thailand -where they’ve been bouncing between cities and exploring as much as they can of a very popular country.
But to make things interesting, Chris has this fascination with the WEIRD things he encounters on his travels and he covers the beat of weird across Asia on his blog, One Weird Globe. In this session, we'll discuss why he’s choosing a life of travel, and how he does it — which includes what it took for him to get a job teaching English in Korea and manage his own classroom of children in a foreign country — along with what 'weird' means to him and his relationship to it, and how travel can help us redefine and become comfortable with the weirdness in all of us.
So, if weird’s your thing, let’s get weird.
What We Cover:
Chris left his job teaching computer classes at a library to teach english in Korea before eventually wanting even more, which led him to Thailand
Good skills and experience to have to get your ESL certification and a job teaching English overseas
How teaching English overseas can be a great way to teach English overseas
How Chris got into weird things and how his definition of weird has changed by exposing him to increasingly weird things.
Explore Further:
One Weird Globe
Chris' Wanderlust Box
Music credit: Moth’s Wings (Artec Remix), Passion Pit; Intrepid Journey, by Aaron Static
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