Mr. PFL and I are now proud owners of the ability to become TEFL-accredited thanks to the power of Groupon. For the low, low price of $39/each, we can complete 150 hours of online coursework, receive a certificate, and then be eligible for job placement assistance to Teach English as a Foreign Language. I am skeptical, to say the least, but having the possibility to teach English in my back pocket is worth a $39 investment. I’ve definitely wasted $39 on worse things, which is comforting in case this does turn out to be too good to be true. (This was a 92% discount.)
While I was at it, I also picked up a Groupon for 5 medium blizzards for $10 at Dairy Queen. (This was only a 54% discount.) A blizzard for every 30 hours of studying sounds delicious.
Now that I think about it, I almost made all $39 back today when Southwest was kind enough to reimburse me for the changes I made for our ill-fated Sunday flights. I only asked for the $61/each back that I paid to change our flights before they liberalized the change rules (they basically had no idea how bad this Aurora fire was going to mess with their schedule), but, for whatever reason, the Southwest agent wasn’t able to parse out just that transaction, and so she is reimbursing the entire unused portion of those tickets, which was about $94/each. (I had already used the other portion to book some flights.) That’s about $33 I wasn’t expecting. So, really, I’m only spending $6/person on TEFL. Thanks, Groupon!