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jebjeb · Joined: 03 Mar 2004 Posts: 12

I'm wondering if anyone has any ideas for interesting summer positions in Turkey? I live and teach in Ankara, but my school is out for 4 months. I could go away, away, but I have a lease and cats to deal with. I'll do dershanes if I have to, but I'd love to hear other ideas. Thanks!

dmb · Joined: 12 Feb 2003 Posts: 8397

Every year I see a summer camp in Bursa advertise. I don't know the address but I guess they will advertise quite soon. Keep an eye on the job boards.

Otterman Ollie · Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2004 11:16 am Post subject: summer positions

Hi
The only position one is interested in is the horozontol kind with a beer or five and a naughty nubile member of the tender gender,not thats a real summer position ,any chance of that here I wonder ?

ghost · Joined: 30 Jan 2003 Posts: 1693 Location: Saudi Arabia

If you can endure hot conditions from mid June to the end of August you have a chance of working in Antalya, Turkey.

There is a school there called 'Amerika Kultur Dernegi' and they run summer courses there. Many of those courses are for kids so you need patience.

The person to contact there is a guy by the name of Halil Cil, who is a friendly guy and willing to get you started. The advantage with this place is that they do 'short' contracts, which is not always the case with other schools.

Antalya is hot in summer but you have the beach which you can use. It is 3km from the town centre where Amerika Kultur located and you can easily get there by tram.

Poster was offered $15 u.s. an hour to work at Amerika Kultur, and that is the price you should ask for too.

You can find small hotels in Antalya where you can pay about 8-10 million a day if you stay for a month or longer.

ghost · Joined: 30 Jan 2003 Posts: 1693 Location: Saudi Arabia

Folks in the previous post one made a mistake about the pay rates at Amerikan Kultur, Antalya. Poster was not offered $15 u.s. per hour but rather 15.000.000 (15 million turk lira) turk per hour.

After a gruelling journey from Hanoi (North Vietnam) poster is now in Vientiane, capital of Laos.

The atmosphere in Laos is very different to Vietnam, Thailand, and to a lesser extent Cambodia. The capital (Vientiane) is a small one in comparison to the over crowded cities of Bangkok (Thailand), Ho Chi Minh and Hanoi (Vietnam) and even Phnom Penh (Cambodia). Vientiane only has around 130.000 people, and feels like a big village. The pace of life is slow, and the Laos are a gentle, unaggressive people, especially when comparing them with the pushy, money hungry Vietnamese.

If you like a slow pace of life, then Lao may be for you. There is work for teachers at the following school in Vientiane (Laos).

Home of English Business School, #204 Ban Wat Chanh, Luang Prabang Rd., Vientiane, Lao PDR. Tel: (856-21) 243 321-2
E-mail: [email protected]

The person to speak with is an American by the name of Stephen Billington. There are also other Home of English branches in Cambodia, in Phnom Penh and Sihanoukville, so you can choose your working venue, depending on where you want to be.

Pay rates at Home of English in Vientiane (Laos) vary between $6-$9 dollars an hour, depending on your qualifications and the classes you teach.

Poster is living in a guest house in Vientiane, and paying $6 per day, but if teaching long term (several months) you could get the rate down to about $3 per day. Food costs between $1 to $2 per meal. If you eat in the street like the Laos, you can eat for about 25 cents for a basic meal.
Remember per capita income in Laos is only around $200 a year. Most Laos earn less than $1 a day.

After following the example of an American guru, expert on these parts, poster is no longer eating any meat, but does consume fish. Feeling better for it, and have already lost 2 kilos (do you hear this Yaramaz?....although hard to be a veggie in Turkey with all those delicious doners etc.....).

Living in South East Asia can often be frustrating because of the communication problem. It is all very well to be smiling like a fish all day, but at the end of the day, one needs some hardcore communication which does not fall into the scripted version, so common here.

Turkey is a decent compromise, because the culture is not so radically different from what we know, and one does not feel like an alien there. This is unfortunately the case here....and there is no way to get away from that fact. We will always be "falangs" in these parts (South East Asia)
and that gets tired quickly.

dmb · Joined: 12 Feb 2003 Posts: 8397

"smiling like a fish" Confused

Mike_2003 · Joined: 27 Mar 2003 Posts: 344 Location: Bucharest, Romania

He'll soon be smelling like one too if he carries on with that diet! Smile

jebjeb · Joined: 03 Mar 2004 Posts: 12

besides the horizontal one & its variations, are there any ideas for non-teaching positions here in turkey for the summer?

yaramaz · Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2004 10:52 am Post subject:

dmb · Joined: 12 Feb 2003 Posts: 8397

Yaramaz, I saw you on your website. You like great. Don't listen to anything Ghost says

yaramaz · Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2004 1:29 pm Post subject:

Thanks dmb! I'm still a bit baffled by ghost's remark, especially given the number of self-confessed fat men on Dave's Cafe (especially in the China forum--- they all seem to be happily fat and drunk lol).

At any rate, I think any comments about a person's body or eating habits are really out of line, especially when we dont actually know each other and ESPECIALLY when the actual topic is teaching overseas!!! This is not a diet site... I dont think... Shocked

ghost · Joined: 30 Jan 2003 Posts: 1693 Location: Saudi Arabia

Yaramaz - the remarks about the fish diet were not specifically aimed at you, but since we already did meet (remember June 2003, Kayseri) and knowing your interest in all things pertaining to health and quality of life in general, one thought that the new diet remarks one is going through might be of interest to you.

Diet is important in teaching since, sometimes, teachers make the mistake of consuming a large meal before a class. This is not wise, because the heavy meal will make you lethargic and your pedagogic performance will be less. It is better to go into class slightly hungry, you will have more energy and you will bounce around the class a lot more, and your thinking will be more clear......give it a try.

The American guru convinced me to seriously curtail one's intake of meat, because he has shown one how unhealthy it is to base one's diet on the stuff.

Back to Vientiane, Laos. How does one compare it to living in Turkey? Completely different. The Laos are quiet, unassuming people, and the atmosphere is just chill, however a trifle boring for someone who likes a bit of action. Example, at night one just sits in a bar drinking Lao beer, but none of the Laos get excited or shout, as one would expect in a place where alcohol is served. The most animated thing they (the Laos) might do in a bar setting would be to giggle quietly.

Poster has submitted resume and credentials to 'Home of English Business School' (Vientiane, Laos), but the application is more for information purposes rather than a determination to actually work there.

Options will be weighed as where to teach, and have choices of Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam and Laos. No rushing.