Reflections on the LABCI Conference in Santiago
Last week I spent three days at a teaching conference in Santiago, and it was a great time. This particular conference was organized by the Latin American British Cultural Institute, and it included people from all over South America, the States, Europe, and even Australia. It happens every other year a different Latin American country, […]
An Updated Testing Experience with TOEFL
In case you haven’t heard yet, the TOEFL test is changing starting August 1st 2019. The test is being shortened from 3.5 hours to 3 hours, and my guess is that this is being done to be seen as comparable to IELTS in terms of test length. I know that if I had the choice […]
The Cost of Living in Santiago
Over my time here in Chile I’ve come across plenty of people that are surprised by the cost of living in Santiago. Some of them naively assumed that living in South America is cheap, or they are basing their ideas on having lived in other countries. The reality is that Santiago is an expensive city […]