information I m french , i m in Venezuela with my family , 2 kids, 8 and 11 years old. We make a round trip around the world with our sailing boat. we plan to go to Santa Marta in 2011, we would like our kids to learn both english and spanish. Is it possible to enter in your school, what would be the price.
thank you for your answer
Sandrine Peyramond
At that moment they do the CNED, it's school by correspondance
Car boot sales in London? Hello, I am also interested in car boot sales. I will be visiting London this month, but unfortunately I find only outdated articles on the internet. Can anyone point me to a location or some info regarding the locations and schedule of car boot sales in London? Thank you!
Hola Se trata de un collegio bilingue Ingelz-Espanol donde la majorie des clases son en Ingles. Es por ninos de 3-4 anos hasta edad de collegio (15-16) probablemente. Creo que eso es el website:
http://www.crmnet.info/bilinguesantamarta/
Mucha suerte! x
informaciones sobre el colegio Disculpa me por la molestia pero no he encontrado nada sobre el colegio de Santa Marta en internet, unicamente su blog!
Soy francesa y vivo desde 4 años en Peru.
Vamos a regresar a Francia por 2 años pero despues, nos gustaria ir a Santa Marta.
Tenemos 2 niños entonces, me gustaria tener informaciones sobre el colegio donde usted trabaja ( como la edad de los niños, los horarios, los precios, en que barrio esta, si todos los cursos son en ingles...).
Muchas gracias por todas las repuestas que me pueda dar.
Raphaele.
It really depends on personal circumstances... Hi Katy
Thanks for your message. I must say I agree with you to a certain extent. It's true, there is hope for a better Romania with a better system and hopefully no corruption, there are kind and lovely doctors who treat patients equally, regardless if they give them bribe or not. My personal circumstances are sadly very different. I was born with a congenital hear disease and have been in hospitals since a baby. I was told I would die before turning 4 by a competent cardiologist and they basically gave me no chance. Can't really blame that on the doctors,though, back then in 1980 we probably did not have the technology for such a complicated surgery, nor the know-how. The only doctor who offered to help fled the country during Ceusescu regime. My parents applied through Red Cross and other international charities but got no response. Luckily they had good friends living in Germany and they offered to help. The doctors who saw me there, in a big clinc in Dusseldorf told my parents on the spot that there was a complicated procedure, but that my problem was surely fixable. I had to stay there for 6 months and ended up having 2 surgeries and I was all right in the end. Though it was a great amount of money they managed to fund raise the necessary amount and my parents did not pay a dime. They would not have afforded it anyways. Back home in Romania I had to go to regular check-ups to be monitored on how the shunt was adjusting to my body. My parents returned to the country with a brand new, western mentality. So they refused to give any money to the doctor that saw us back home. The outcome: we were given the cold shoulder instead of being congratulated on such a great feat.
You are totally right to say that we, the people make the system and if I strongly disagree and disapprove, then I should not play the game by their rules. But you know why I do it? Simply because I am sick of waiting in bloody stupid queues as we don't have a simple appointment system and I just want things done quickly, pain-free and if possible, with a bit of smile on somebody's face. I just pay this money so that I could get out of there as quickly as possible. It is the whole atmosphere, the whole ambient that just scream 'Stay away!'
I've lived in England for 2 years and had 2 surgeries here as well. People do their job professionally and treat all patients equally. After dealing with this system, it's really hard to get back home and be treated so much differently.
I'm not saying I'm right, in fact I would say that you are right and I agree that if this is what I believe, than this is the way I should act. I just can't be bothered, I prefer to pay for whatever it is customary in my country and get the hell out. This is for little things. Because for anything major I would not be caught dead in a Romanian hospital. You're right, there are problems in the UK as well, I know! But if you compare the 2 systems, I bet you'll give more credit to the English one.
I guess circumstances are different, but I have been in hospitals all my life so unfortunately this is experience talking, not hear-say, and in Romanian hospitals it's only been good and positive when I went to private clinics, but that's a totally different story.
it's not all like that! I moved to Romania 10 years ago with my family. While there are cases of coruption it's true, please don't assume it' all like that cos it's not. Neither I nor any of my family have ever given a bribe - if you don't agree with it, why do you do it and propogate an unfair system developed during a previous regime. Two of my children have had surgery here by lovely kind professional doctors and have been nursed by kind, caring though overworked nurses.
My daughter is now a doctor and she says that while its true there are a few corrupt doctors, the majority are not. Times have changed and are changing but we as individuals have to do our part too. my foreign friends at the beginning told me if i didn't pay bribes i would get nothing done ... we have never ever given even one small bribe. Yes, being completely honest, there have been a few times when things would have moved faster ... but we as a family took a stand.
We work with street people and poor families and know of many, many of them who have had babies, surgery and other treatment without giving any money.
Yes Romania has a way to go with this issue ... but if all the people like you (and there are many) who don't believe in bribing just give in to it ... then how will things change?
Don't despair ... please ... Britain isn't all as good as your experience - I could give you many examples.
Be one of the brave ones ... stand up and be counted ... , make a difference!
and most of all ... don't give up hope for a better future, Romania and her people (well, most of them) deserve it ... honest!
I came across your blog by accident, but I was interested because I've always been curious to visit Romania. The difference it in writing styles is very interesting. My blog is looking for travel photos, experiences, reviews, etc, to share. If you have the time, check it out at dirty-hippies.blogspot.com, or email us at dirtyhippiesblog@gmail.com. Perhaps there's something you'd like to share, about your experience teaching in Romania?! Continued fun on your travels!
Heather :)
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Hello.. wow I enjoyed reading your blog :) I will be going there during this summer as part of my AIESEC experience; however, I noticed you got to meet a mexican. (Oh I forgot to mention that I'm mexican) :P Is there any chance, in case you do have it, that you could put me in contact with him? I would really like to ask him a lot of things about his experience.
Thanks a lot!! :D
Chema
Currently applying there... Hi, I am currently applying to work as a teacher at Colegio Bilingue, hopefully will make it for the next semester...! Any practical info will be appreciated.
well... i think that one of the reason is that here in romania, many people who have something that don t use anymore won t go to a car boot sale as they are "too important" to do this. In uk i saw audi q7 , porshe owners, but i can t imagine that someone from our country with a car like this would actually come to the fair.in uk this ideea succedeed because most of the people go there for relaxing and for socializing while in romania most of them come here in order to earn some money for eating.anyway, i love car boot !
Too bad this is happening in European country I come from Kenya, been staying here in Romania for almost two years, my wife's grandma surprised me one day with bundles of 10 Lei tones ( almost 100 notes) - I could not understand at first as I guess is the case to you. She has cancer, was going to hospital for almost one week and while driving her there she asked me to first pass through a bank and get small denominations ( 10 Lei notes) for 1000 Lei. I could not understand why the hell she wanted these small denominations until my wife later explained to me that she need to 'bribe' the nurses - very very unfortunate. I tried to explain that these nurses are paid to do their job, but she explained to me carefully that this is how it is done here in Romania. The Doctor was receiving bigger denominations. Not mentioning the long queues which can be avoided by proper time programming!!!!
The system here is bogus. When I was getting married, I was being tossed from one office to another - each contradicting one another. I realized serious incompetence from the side of many government employees. Wasted so much time going to the mayor’s office and one time a colleague of mine told me to do things Romanian way he told me that I needed to carry chocolate when going to the office and ‘kiss’ the employees there and give them the chocolate plus some African stuff(e.g. Necklace). I didn’t believe that this is the ‘Romanian way’, from where I come from if you try to corrupt government officials then you are likely to get one of the following three treatments:
1. If the employees are the low paid ones they will solve your problem there and then on the stop with a small bribe as small as 0.3 Euro. 60 %
2. If the employees are well educated and well paid they will instead call police to arrest you. 20 %
3. Or simply they will take the bribe and solve the issue at their normal pace or simply refuse to take your bribe and simply help you without the bribe. 20 %
Taking in mind the above I decided to stand on my ground and do things the right way but I had to scare them by telling them that I was headed to the Ministry of foreign affairs concerning the harassment I was receiving at that moment they realized that they were not playing with the ‘normal’ African.
I must mention that some systems function smoothly like the RAR/ITP they do nice programming only that the cashiers unfortunately take their time to smoke while a lot of people are waiting.
Anyway Romania is a wonderful country but if not checked then a few years say 100 or 150 it will not be any better than my failed country.
Good Romanians keep up your good work and those who are eager to get rich overnight please get down to your senses and know that what you doing is killing your country and stop it immediately.
The saddest part is that after all the pain, time, ‘thank you(s)’ and so forth today the doctor treating grandma said that she has less than one month!!!!! Felt desperate to look for other means and landed here.
La mult ani toate lumea. God bless you all
goldenseal41@hotmail.com Hi again Mona. I got a reply - probably an automated one from this page - which was in my junk mail and I deleted it by mistake. I hope it wasn't from you. If it was, could you send it again?
Sorry for the trouble.
Leslie Ryan
Prague
This blog is an account of my travels, my experience living abroad, starting with Turkey in 2004, straight after graduating from university, my teaching internship in Colombia for a whole year and my 2 years spent in London where I signed up for several Teacher Training Development Courses and even tried a little bit of Marketing.
I'm back in Romania where I set up a small language center which is now (2014) a Cambridge Exams Authorised Preparation Centre. I literally invested every penny I had in this project, putting all of my energy, dedication, passion for languages and know-how into pr... full info
nicoleta
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um it nice what you have to say and im sorry you got sick in romania, but not everybosy there is currupted thank you very much lady!!!