Hi,
Canada doesn't qualify as part of Asia... but for the sake of consistently telling my story of professional development, I'll add my blog to this website, if it's ok.
I start teaching at Global Village English in Calgary this coming Monday. I'm teaching an intermediate group of international students, who hopefully will be interested in what I have to offer.
I will work there for a month, and if all goes well, I'll keep working there for a while.
I also recently got my CELTA at Global Village in Vancouver. There are lots of great Korean restaurants in Vancouver. My colleagues and I went out for soju and samgyepsal (and cigars) one night. The next day, I helped my hangover along with a cup of hot yujacha (sp?)
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I just gave a little
I just gave a little education to my students on using the word 'foreigner'. Some students were looking at pictures taken from a recent event and called Canadians in the picture 'foreigners' (even though we're all in Canada here).
Who's not a foreigner?
I recall a professor once telling the class that also for some Chinese people, wherever they go, China is always apparently under them. She even did it herself (she's a Bulgarian-American, by the way) - talking about all the "foreigners" with her Chinese colleagues in the US.
Non-native ESL Teachers
Interesting phenomenon.
Currently, I try to investigate how nativeness on non-nativeness would affect teaching and learning.
If you teach English and you are not a native speaker, please kindly check this survey.
http://www.polldaddy.com/s/0B338E27687B3AE0/
regards,
hendi pratama