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gugelhupf · Joined: 24 Jan 2004 Posts: 575 Location: Jabotabek

Tuan-tuan (dan puan-puan), I would appreciate it if anyone has any recent experience to share about working for EF franchises in Bandung, Solo and Yogya.

I am aware of the general, shall we say, features, of EF as a whole but I'm also aware that there can be a world of difference between individual franchises.

While I have a degree and teaching experience (and will have a Trinity House cert. shortly) I don't actually have any recent EFL teaching experience so I may not be in a strong position to pick and choose the very best employers in Indonesia. I have been told that TBI in Bandung are a professional lot and well worth working for but don't know anything about other schools in the area.

I live just two blocks away from EF's central recruitment division so it is very easy for me to deal with them.

On another, quite bizarre, subject: I am a former biologist with fascination for fireflies and glow-worms. Does Java have plenty of these beasties?

Many thanks.

ls650 · Joined: 10 May 2003 Posts: 3484 Location: British Columbia

Chalk me up as one of those rare folks who has actually had a reasonably good experience with EF. (WHAT?!? Is that possible? Wink

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What can I say? the franchise I work for is okay. Is there any way you can talk to the teachers there first?

As for glow worms and fireflies, I've never seen any such beasties here...

gugelhupf · Joined: 24 Jan 2004 Posts: 575 Location: Jabotabek

[quote="ls650"]Chalk me up as one of those rare folks who has actually had a reasonably good experience with EF. (WHAT?!? Is that possible? Wink

)

That doesn't surprise me at all. Some people seem to have a good time with EF while (judging from the horror stories elsewhere on this site) some have living nightmares. The difference in professionalism between individual franchises within the same area seems quite extreme, and I'm sure that erstwhile good schools can deteriorate very quickly if something goes *beep* up.

If anyone out there has RECENT experience of an Indo. EF establishment I'd be grateful to hear about it. I know that in many towns EF pay less than the others, but frankly I'm not choosing to go to Indonesia as a place to get rich - far more important to me right now is to find somewhere supportive to gain experience for a year and decide whether to stay longer. That said, I'm nobody's doormat and don't intend to get badly ripped off.

As regards geography, i've rather set my heart on Bandung, Yogya or Solo but would consider elsewhere.

willy · Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2004 6:51 pm Post subject:

Well as for those places I can�t say; the EF teachers in BOGOR seen to be happy although they are some of the rudest people I have ever met, a friend of mine got hit by her DOS in baksi.

I can say stay out of Jakarta if you want to keep your shirts white.

Firefly�s here? Maybe they got barbequed; glowworms, last ones I saw were in New Zealand.

ls650 · Joined: 10 May 2003 Posts: 3484 Location: British Columbia

willy · Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2004 3:16 pm Post subject:

JUST TO SET THINGS RIGHT, YOU SAID YOUR MAKING 10,000,000. A MONTH? AND YOU�RE WORKING AT EF? I HAVE NEVER OF ANY ONE GETTING MORE THAN 7,000,000.

ls650 · Joined: 10 May 2003 Posts: 3484 Location: British Columbia

willy · Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2004 9:08 pm Post subject:

O` thanks for the clarification, 7.25 that�s good for EF.

AC, is that =Academic Coordinator

Academic(adj) irrelevant in practice: theoretical and not of any practical relevance

and or Academic(n)
professor, instructor, teacher, lecturer, researcher, college lecturer, scholar, tutor, don

Coordinator(n)
manager, director, planner, controller, coordinator, arranger

And if we are teaching grammer do all the above apply, if so should it be AAC? Laughing

bayabule · Joined: 05 Feb 2004 Posts: 82 Location: East Java Indonesia

I saw millions of fireflies in the jungle in South Kalimantan about two years ago. It were right pretty... ahhhhh!