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GF
Joined: 08 Jun 2003
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Location: Tallinn
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| jonniboy wrote: |
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| There are only two language schools that hire foreigners in Tallinn |
ILS and International House? There must be more than that surely? There are at least six in Riga.
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| private students are an endangered species. The crisis has hit hard here. |
Here too the crisis has hit hard but the privates market has been surprisingly buoyant. I've been full all year. More people want to leave / change jobs / find new jobs / do IELTS etc. |
There are plenty of language schools, but all but two hire only locals (who are cheaper and often as good as native speakers).
Privates are tough because again the locals are cheaper to hire and can be just as good. Luckily, I don't depend on this at all. Any privates I get are just party money. |
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rusmeister
Joined: 15 Jun 2006
Posts: 867
Location: Russia
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| Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2009 2:01 am Post subject: |
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I'll bet the FSB would be curious about that. Certainly your motives are questionable. Why don't you just say what you really want and apply for a visa that is appropriate to that? (Unless it is something dishonest and immoral, in which case, worst of luck to you...)
Or else this is just trolling... |
Hahaha. You are a funny guy/gal rusmeister, aren't you? What do you know about FSB that I who was born in Russia don�t know and what is so questionable about my motives?
I am entitled to Russian temporary residency without quota. The processing of my application will take at least 6 months. I can stay in Russia without leaving the country for that long only on work or student visa. I have a TESL certificate and I want to use it to get work visa as a volunteer. Does it make me dishonest and immoral or a troll? |
What one can do does not make one dishonest or immoral. It is what they do do, and the thing that leads to that is what they want to do.
So,,,what motivates you to go work in a hardship country for free? WHY do you want to do it? (and what you are eligible for is irrelevant here) |
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opex
Joined: 26 Mar 2009
Posts: 12
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| Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2009 4:59 am Post subject: |
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| rusmeister wrote: |
What one can do does not make one dishonest or immoral. It is what they do do, and the thing that leads to that is what they want to do.
So,,,what motivates you to go work in a hardship country for free? WHY do you want to do it? (and what you are eligible for is irrelevant here) |
rusmeister, ты можешь называть себя обрусевшим американцем до умопомрачения, России ты не знал, не знаешь и знать никогда не будешь. Иди, лечи тех на этом форуме, которое приезжают в Россию по деловой визе и незаконно преподают за наличные и учат частных студентов нелегально. Или ты сам один из них? В таком случае посмотри в зеркало на бесчестного и аморального типа. Вам гнилым непонятно, как это кто-то может приехать в Россию и работать волонтером пока ждет разрешения на временное проживание и разрешение на работу, которое позволит работать где угодно и сколько угодно, после чего можно будет получить вид на жительство, что равносильно вашей зеленой карте. Тобой, кстати, ЦРУ не интересуется за такое длительное пребывание в России? |
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rusmeister
Joined: 15 Jun 2006
Posts: 867
Location: Russia
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| Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2009 5:17 pm Post subject: |
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| opex wrote: |
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What one can do does not make one dishonest or immoral. It is what they do do, and the thing that leads to that is what they want to do.
So,,,what motivates you to go work in a hardship country for free? WHY do you want to do it? (and what you are eligible for is irrelevant here) |
rusmeister, ты можешь называть себя обрусевшим американцем до умопомрачения, России ты не знал, не знаешь и знать никогда не будешь. Иди, лечи тех на этом форуме, которое приезжают в Россию по деловой визе и незаконно преподают за наличные и учат частных студентов нелегально. Или ты сам один из них? В таком случае посмотри в зеркало на бесчестного и аморального типа. Вам гнилым непонятно, как это кто-то может приехать в Россию и работать волонтером пока ждет разрешения на временное проживание и разрешение на работу, которое позволит работать где угодно и сколько угодно, после чего можно будет получить вид на жительство, что равносильно вашей зеленой карте. Тобой, кстати, ЦРУ не интересуется за такое длительное пребывание в России? |
Hi Opex,
I'm sure they do and I couldn't care less. If they (both the CIA and FSB) haven't figured out who I am and what I stand for by now, then we're probably all doomed.
I'm legal, have legal work, am a permanent resident, and am doing all right. I don't make much money, but I don't work for free either. I have three children, one on the way, a wife and 2 elderly in-laws to support. No hidden motives here.
I probably deserve your emotional response. I was a little too straight-forward and inconsiderate, and apologize for the trolling comment. But it is not accurate to say that I do not know (anything about) Russia.
Still, what I find interesting is your consistent evasion of motive - WHY do you dream of working in Russia for free? What do you want a visa for that is wholly inconsistent with what you state you want and don't want? Maybe you are a charitable person with lots of money and the desire to help others for nothing - but why don't you come out and say so, if that's the case, and how you came to be that way? It's just that anybody would find the facts, as you have stated them, rather odd and even suspicious. (If you do have good motives, it would help you to present them.) |
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BELS
Joined: 24 Mar 2005
Posts: 402
Location: Moscow
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| Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2009 6:33 pm Post subject: |
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| GF wrote: |
| jonniboy wrote: |
| GF wrote: |
| There are only two language schools that hire foreigners in Tallinn |
ILS and International House? There must be more than that surely? There are at least six in Riga.
| GF wrote: |
| private students are an endangered species. The crisis has hit hard here. |
Here too the crisis has hit hard but the privates market has been surprisingly buoyant. I've been full all year. More people want to leave / change jobs / find new jobs / do IELTS etc. |
There are plenty of language schools, but all but two hire only locals (who are cheaper and often as good as native speakers).
Privates are tough because again the locals are cheaper to hire and can be just as good. Luckily, I don't depend on this at all. Any privates I get are just party money. |
The locals are cheaper????? I don't believe that, otherwise why bother being a teacher. Why not use your talents in being a translator or interpretor, or working for an international company. Why would you be here if the income is crap! No Russians need a good income because the inflation is much higher than Britain for example. Your bare necessities such as food, rent, and the cost is much more, with much lower quality!
Sorry! I don't believe Russians are cheaper than native speakers. But they do have a tough time competing with native English teachers, especially when they discover that the local customers know that native English teachers are producing greater results. They do try to state that native English can't teach beginners or gramm,ar, but eventually they realise that comes on deaf ears. |
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opex
Joined: 26 Mar 2009
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