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coledavis
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 Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 4:59 pm Post subject: Windsor School |
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| Moving away from the discussions of advice versus condescension (I'm sure all parties mean well), does anybody know anything about this Windsor organisation in Moscow? They're advertising free accomm as well as pay in the current job listing. Anybody worked for them? |
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mdk
Joined: 09 Jun 2007
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| Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 8:46 pm Post subject: |
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| Personally my #1 concern is the visa. I want to be able to be there and not have to leave to get a new visa (this is advise I got from expat.ru) until I I have been able to get the residency. |
As to Visas it is a crap shoot. I was in Barcelona and BKC sent me a priglazenniye which the local consulate did everything but wipe his arse with and told me to go back to the US and re-apply. I called up BKC and they advised me to go to Madrid and try again. In Madrid I had to make an appointment and come back in a few days at which time they treated me like their long lost Uncle Vanya and I was on my way. I have entered and worked in Russia four times and I have four different visa stories. If you have to go to Riga overnight to get a visa then be glad you don't have to eat a round trip back to the states instead - which is entirely possible. I think you are well advised to have your visa in line before you leave home. If you go to www.baraban.com you can find lots of lawyers who deal with questions like this stateside.
Everybody has their own experience with a visa. Remember I said it wasn't like moving to Yuma. You have to pull up your socks and deal with it. Uncertainties like this are going to be part of your life as long as you are working in Russia. My advice is to learn to deal with it or find some way to bring your husband back to the states.
As to which school you would fit in well with - who can answer that without knowing you? I shouldn't be surprised if you do not require a fair amount of hand holding and support - for all of your reported experience in Afghanistan. I worked 7 months with BKC and felt I was treated well up until the last one. While people have many well-founded complaints about the organization, they at least have good experience dealing with starry-eyed newcomers. If you stay sober and work hard you may well do OK with them.
Once again, my understanding is that all of the large schools in Moscow are very similar. That is why you will see I have another thread dealing with how to get a job out of Moscow - which is certainly what I will do when and if I don't decide to return to Spain. |
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rusmeister
Joined: 15 Jun 2006
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Location: Russia
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| Posted: Sat May 31, 2008 1:52 am Post subject: |
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I am not A: looking for assurances that there are no problems in Moscow. I have lived in many place and can tell you that there are problems everywhere.
Or B: brimming with optimism
ALL I WANT IS TO KNOW ABOUT THE SCHOOLS!!!!
That is it. If you can't tell me then please respond to this post. I didn't ask specifics on Russia. I don't know how else to put this, but basically if you are all so wise it would be nice for me if you could impart some of you wisdom about the schools I mentioned. If I only last a week there that is my problem. I will deal with it. I can appriciate that you are all saying these things because you have either had bad experiences or have seen others have them but that is NOT what I am asking. If I wasn't concerned about the schools I won't be asking, would I?
Come you guys, some of you have either worked for or know people who worked for some of these schools? |
Hi, Newkid!
Please don't take offense!
This was the content of the OP:
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I really need help making an educated descision on what school to work for in Moscow. So far I have heard from EF, Languagelinks, BBLC, Sunny School Plus, and Inlingua.
I just want to make sure that they are good in terms of honoring their contracts, pay what they say, and of course that I don't have any problems with the visa. I also want to know that I will be working with a good group of people if anyone can tell me that? |
It is helpful that you have since provided more context for what you want. But that first one, standing on its own and read by others who can't read your mind, looks like a request for assurances that life will turn out OK, something that none of us can be sure of in the usual temporal sense, and so, it drew the responses that you got.
(Just so you don't think you fell into nastyville.) There are some posters here, and non-posters as well, that do come across as nasty on a regular basis. You just figure out who they are and ignore/avoid them. But most of the regulars are pretty good - that's a reason that I have (so far) stayed here in spite of some of the less pleasant aspects of the site. |
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