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Languages, literature, film.
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I have experience volunteering at a homeless day centre, working in admin and as a furniture mover. I am currently studying a language studies degree at the open university in my second year. I exercise regularly. I like music , film, series, languages and literature.
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Musique
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Anglais: Courant
Espagnol: Débutant
Français: Débutant
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I am interested in improving my language skills and helping others improve theirs.
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I have experience volunteering at a homeless day centre, office admin, nightclub security and I work as a furniture mover. Graduated from school with grades BBC in A level maths, physics and chemistry. Im in my second year of a language studies degree. I can cook simple food and drive a car.
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Music, film/series, literature, golf, exercise.
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31 déc. 2023

Laissé par le workawayer () pour l'hôte (Help us at our English school ...)

Apologies for the late review, I was in Darkhan for a month from the end of September to the beginning of October. When I arrived, Turkish airlines had left my luggage in Turkey so I ended up missing the train to Darkhan. Mogi helped me get a taxi there and helped me to get my luggage back, so this review is mostly to say thank you to my host.… read more Also, this was my first time teaching and I would not have been able to do it without her help because she was there most of the time. She also helped sometimes when I needed something translated because I don't speak mongolian and showed me where to buy food and clothes.
The schedule for the teaching was 2 classes in the morning, then a lunch break which lasted a couple of hours, then 3 classes in the afternoon. Each class was an hour, 3 of them were for older kids and 2 of them were for younger ones.
In Mongolia getting a taxi is cheap and easy since anyone can be a taxi driver if they have a car. You can literally stand on the side of the road and someone will stop for you eventually. If I could give advice to anyone thinking about doing teaching for the first time or going to Mongolia, it would be to make sure you understand what you will be teaching and to have a plan for how to explain it. Basically be prepared. Also, get a sim card in mongolia so that you have data to be able to use google translate on your phone when you don't have wifi. Also, bear in mind that the language barrier between english and a latin language like french is different than the barrier between english and mongolian. For example, mongolian has a case system like turkish or russian which we don't have. Also, get Gboard on your phone so that you have the mongolian alphabet if you want. And work out how much it costs to get the taxi to and from the language centre so that you have enough cash. Work out how to pronounce the destination that you want to get to so that you can tell the taxi driver. For anyone interested in the language, "Colloquial Mongolian" and "Modern Mongolian a coursebook" are the ones I found that were most accessible to me. By the way, reading these two books once doesn't mean that you will be able to speak the language. If you are looking for english language teaching materials, islcollective has a lot of free stuff.
The place is pretty quiet and relaxed. It's at a high altitude and a pretty dry climate so drink a lot of water. There is a place right next to the language centre called apollo supermarket where you can get water,
The only things I found to watch out for are that Mongolia has strict drug laws, people drive aggressively (compared to London) and avoid tap water without boiling it or just stick to bottled water. This probably isn't out of the ordinary for anyone who travels a lot.
I am grateful for being given this opportunity to teach in Mongolia and for being treated so well by Mogi. I recommend this for anyone interested in teaching and visiting mongolia.

(Excellent)

2 août 2023

Laissé par le workawayer () pour l'hôte (Help us out in our ...)

I was made to feel welcome and had a good time at this Workaway. I will try to summarize my experience in Latvia so that potential workawayers can get an idea of what it’s like at the particular place that I was staying which was near vecaikava. To get there I took a taxi from the airport to Riga and then I walked to the train station and got the… read more train to Madonas. Then I took a bus to stalidzani and from there I got picked up by Andra, who showed me to my room in Norwegian House. The school is in the countryside surrounded by farmland although by bicycle it doesn’t take too long to get to a main road. Andra was our liaison with the school who organized our work and our daily routine. Although she didn’t speak English she managed to communicate with me effectively and made my stay comfortable. I was there with 3 other volunteers. Usually, everyone ate together 3 times a day. I cooked a few times and so did the other volunteers. I remember we had a lot of ice cream, sausage, eggs, chicken, Latvian bread, rice, potatoes, pork, soup vegetable/potato/chicken etc. I was there during the beginning of the summer holiday so I didn’t take part in the teaching. We found out what we were going to be doing each day at breakfast. The activities included chopping wood and stacking it for fire, dish washing and cleaning and gardening with mainly watering plants or cutting grass. The school is a boarding school with two buildings, one has classrooms, a crèche, little indoor basketball court, music room and a library/ lounge area. The other building is the kitchen and dining area with bedrooms upstairs. In Norwegian House we had a washing machine, a room with a shower and toilet and another room that was just a shower, both had sinks. There are mosquitoes and I got bitten many times but I was fine. If you don’t speak Latvian you can always use Google translate when one of the kids isn’t around to help translate, but everyone is understanding so it wasn’t a problem. I was treated very well by the staff and the students so I never felt anxious about being there. If you need to travel without being driven, you can walk about 45 minutes to the vecaikava bus stop to get to madonas, so there is a way to go into town to buy some things if you need to without a car. There is a hospital(poly clinic), a book shop and a small supermarket in Madonas if needed. For me, the best thing about this workaway was being in a place where the students and staff wanted to be there because In most schools where I come from, people don’t want to be there. So it was a pleasure to be at this Workaway and I hope that this school continues the great work of which I was lucky enough to see some of the results reflected in the students. I only have read one of these but if anyone wants to try and learn the language I found these two books. Latvian grammar by andra kalnaca and Ilze lokmane. Latvian an essential grammar by dace praulins. I was only there for a month but there was a 3 day festival/holiday, a camping trip and another celebration in Madonas with live music. Also we went to a lake where people can swim. I hope this review will help any prospective workawayers and I recommend this place to anyone interested in doing their Workaway in Latvia.

(Excellent)

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