Date: 25th May 2011


thank you!!

From Blog: Some Things Around Home

Date: 15th April 2011


Hi Kathy, I'm really glad you liked the blog. I learned a ton at EF, but I'm not sure if it's worth the price. The problem I had with it was that each individual school doesn't really communicate with the department you talk to at home (so for me the US offices and for you it'd be the Australian offices). The offices outside of the school don't really know what's going on in the schools and couldn't give me much accurate information. Also the living conditions weren't very good, I was moved 5 times, which is kind of a pain when you're there for (semi) long term. The "EF residences" were actually just hostels and the beautiful buildings advertised in the brochure were only in select cities. The best thing about EF for me in comparison to other schools was that almost all the students were around my age. The average was 19-22 years old. So as I said I did learn a lot, but the accommodations really weren't worth how much I payed. And also the communications between corporate EF and the schools: corporate EF requires that all the teachers be native speakers of the target language, but this school had no problem giving us teachers from Asia for German classes. It's just a problem that the corporation doesn't check up on their schools and give the customers accurate info. If you have any more questions about anything I'd love to help! Send me your email if I can help in anyway. Take care.

From Blog: Why I learn languages