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reality · Joined: 13 Mar 2003 Posts: 105

What do you think are the most dangerous Countries or areas to work in?.

bnix · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Posts: 645

Hey,good choice! Smile

That Uranus,a tough one! But you know,now,a lot of the so-called ,would be "teachers' who cruise this forum will be wanting to know "How can I contact someone on Uranus about teaching there?"
You know the old line"I have no degree,but I WANT to Teach on Uranus!" Nice choice,but I think you have opened up the floodagates.Extrasterrestrial TESOL....we can call it "TESLE"..Teaching English as a Second Language to Extraterrestrials....and some scammy school can come up with a certificate program that "you just must have in order to teach on other planets" Poor Martians...poor ET's everywhere! Laughing

Roger · Joined: 19 Jan 2003 Posts: 9138

Ah, bnix, not so hostile, please! Maybe they don't want to teach English.
How about klingonian? If they advertised teaching this lingo all doors would open to them.
Uncle Rummy is rumoured to have discussed with the honchos of America's spy networks whether they could befriend fundamentalist terrorists simply by pushing a new world language to replace English ("American").
The world would be a lot safer if we all spoke no English anymore...
Who knows whether English is spoken on Uranus?

bnix · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Posts: 645

Not at all....just sarcastic...and telling the truth (yes okay,the truth from my point of view,before y'all get upset).Rog...as for that quote".....all doors would open to them"Please,Rog,let's leave "doors" out of this.At last report, he was either sitting in an oubliette somewhere in Qatar...or he had done a presto-chango and had beciome'Another poster".
I don't know.... biffenbaker.....mutt...something like that.Who knows?Who really cares? A TROLL BY ANY OTHER NAME IS STILL A TROLL! (Whoops!Fell back into that Ba-a--d habit of using the uppercase).

Who knows,maybe Uranus will become THE(Whoops!There I go again!) place to teach TESOL.Wonder if they know about Barbie and Ken yet... Laughing

biffinbridge · Joined: 05 May 2003 Posts: 701 Location: Frank's Wild Years

Hey that "doors" really did a job on bnix didn't he?The guy's like 'Clueso' in the 'Pink Panther' don't you think?

scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

Dangerous ? How about Algeria where 31 European tourists were kidnapped recently. Last I heard they were still missing, presumanly with their throats slit. The American media ignored this having other things to do, with the good guys kickcin sh** out of the Ayrakis.

Over on the Africa Forum there is a guy who reckons that Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of the Congo could be a nice spot for a gig TEFLing.
He has a buddy who goes there to buy goldfish and he says it is really safe.

I mean where do these people come from ?

R · Joined: 07 May 2003 Posts: 277 Location: United Kingdom

I know somebody who teaches in Atlantis. Apparently the wages are okay but he has school accomodation and it has a bad rising damp problem.

Kent F. Kruhoeffer · Joined: 22 Jan 2003 Posts: 2129 Location: 中国

Dear Reality:

Ok, a serious answer for you!

Here's an alphabetical list of countries that comes to mind when the topic is high rates of crime and/or general danger:

Angola
Balkans
Columbia
Cote D' Ivoire
India
Indonesia
Iraq
Israel
Nigeria
Pakistan
Philippines
South Africa
the USA
Uzbekistan
Venezuela
Zimbabwe

This list was brought to you by: www.aneki.com/dangerous.html

PS: Of the countries on this list, I have had the great fortune of living in 2 which are on the list: the USA and the Philippines, and I miraculously survived both. Cool

Kent F. Kruhoeffer · Joined: 22 Jan 2003 Posts: 2129 Location: 中国

Dear Reality:

For a much more comprehensive and very interesting quality-of-life index, try this link:

http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030303.wrank0303/BNStory/International

Regards,
keNt

Steiner · Joined: 21 Apr 2003 Posts: 573 Location: Hunan China

johnslat · Posted: Wed May 14, 2003 1:39 pm Post subject: Do you have an appointment?

Hey, when your number's up, what does it matter which country you're in?
Que sera, sera, kismet, fate. etc. I've already posted this on the Saudi forum, but just in case you missed it:

The speaker is Death

There was a merchant in Bagdad who sent his servant to market to buy provisions and in a little while the servant came back, white and trembling, and said, Master, just now when I was in the marketplace I was jostled by a woman in the crowd and when I turned I saw it was Death that jostled me. She looked at me and made a threatening gesture, now, lend me your horse, and I will ride away from this city and avoid my fate. I will go to Samarra and there Death will not find me. The merchant lent him his horse, and the servant mounted it, and he dug his spurs in its flanks and as fast as the horse could gallop he went. Then the merchant went down to the marketplace and he saw me standing in the crowd and he came to me and said, Why did you make a threating getsture to my servant when you saw him this morning? That was not a threatening gesture, I said, it was only a start of surprise. I was astonished to see him in Bagdad, for I had an appointment with him tonight in Samarra.

As we say over here, it's all inshallah.
Regards,
John

scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

Kent :Colombia or Columbia ?

Come on

It is the District of Columbia, but the place where the coke comes from is Colombia.

R · Joined: 07 May 2003 Posts: 277 Location: United Kingdom

Johnslat: very funny! Very Happy

Cheers,
Rob.

Stephen Jones · Joined: 21 Feb 2003 Posts: 4124

Kent - both lists suck big time.

How does India get on the most dangerous list? And look into some of their other statistics and it gets weirder - they have something called "GDP by purchasing power parity", which aappears to be a way of easing western consciences by making poverty disappear through statistics. They suggest that the adjusted GFP of India is a quarter that of Saudi, and that Sri Lanka is as rich as Syria and a third as rich as Saudi.

As for the list of cities. Most of the ones at the top come from Canada, New Zealand, Austrial and Germany. Quality of life? Maybe a load of quality but certainly no life!

M@tt · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Posts: 473 Location: here and there

http://www.aneki.com/rankeuwealth.html

I'm glad the Europeans found Jersey acceptable enough to adopt.