November 4, 2011

From Gambier to Mongolia: Teaching English for the Peace Corp - Features - Features - The Kenyon Collegian

From Gambier to Mongolia: Teaching English for the Peace Corp - Features - Features - The Kenyon Collegian: "Imagine trading your apartment single for a tent in the Gobi desert, 7,000 miles across the world. It was an exciting choice for Rob Galloway '09, who now works for the Peace Corps as a TOEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language) teacher in Mongolia.
Galloway didn't graduate from Kenyon with the specific goal of joining the Peace Corps, but it was his best option.
"I knew I wanted to travel after graduation for a while, and I ... explored a bunch of English teaching opportunities," Galloway said. "I applied to a couple of different options immediately upon graduation, [and] Peace Corps was the one that got back to me the fastest, which was about a year after graduation. That's when I finally left.""

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