SLOVENIA: DREAM OF ANY ROMANCE (continued, p.2) Another great advantage of living in Slovenia becomes obvious if you look at the map of Europe, namely the location of this country, and you will see numerous opportunities for trips on the weekend or for daily travel abroad. Christmas in Ljubljana imagined a cappuccino? Now go to Venice for one day. Christmas Fair? Well, then go to Austria. Beach? Croatia is just a number. Goulash chevapchichi (fried sausages, ground meat with onions and spices, approx. TRANSFER), Brandy? Then you are in Hungary, Bosnia, Serbia. I arrived in Slovenia at the end of September and started to teach English. I immediately felt that the work here is very different from teaching in Costa Rica. Slovenes are known for their qualities polyglots, most of them have a high level in several languages. So many of my students have advanced knowledge and studied business English. In fact, the most advanced class in Costa Rica there would be only slightly above average. View of Mount Triglav students in Costa Rica are often taught the language as a hobby to watch Hollywood movies or listen to British music, and in Slovenia English is required to work for negotiations with the Austrians, Italians and Croats. Daffodils on hillside Golitsa Among students of Costa Rica have been popular idioms and slang, while the Slovenians are not interested this part of the language because their colleagues or clients simply do not understand them. In Costa Rica, were very popular games and activities, which include some sort of fuss and just monkey business, and the training of Slovene students such methods do not work. I do not want to say that the lessons were boring, just the opposite. Now I like most about teaching is business English as well as exercise and the situation is a vital and useful, and students appreciate it most. Type the pass Vrshich Well, now, after enumerating the positive side, it's time to complain. After all, if everything was so wonderful, except I would have left. I would like to dwell on all of the above, but I can not. Pass Prisoynik The biggest drawback was the winter. This is not due to the fact that the winter of 2010 was severe in almost all of Europe, I just do not like winter. For several months it was very cold and very snowy. Need to carefully wrap oneself up every time you want somewhere to go, very tiring. Julian Alps worst effect that proyalyaetsya winter, a change of mood in people, they simply fall into a state of hibernation. When I first came to Slovenia, I whirled around interesting events. I received many invitations to various events or nightly forays into the city, or day trips. All this ended with the onset of winter. It seemed that my friends have switched from the Slovenians on the other foreigners. A large number of local spend all my free time to ski, I really worth it to try skiing, but I did not find time for this. The Valley Krma I said that he moved to Slovenia from behind the mountains. But since mid-October to mid-June, they actually closed due to weather conditions. The abundance of snow does not interfere with visiting mountain areas except climbers. I still tried to climb the mountains, but several dangerous trips (during which I got lost, fell into a crevice, etc.) I have fought off the hunt to climb higher. That is what I would do every weekend, I can do only four months a year. And is it worth for the four months to move to another country? Village Kuplzhenik big difference from teaching English to local schools in Costa Rica is the fact that, including me, there were only four teachers - native speakers. In Costa Rica, all the teachers come from the United States, Canada, Australia or Britain. All of them are going to provedsti in this country about a year, with no ties or acquaintances among the locals. Therefore, we always stick together, spent weekends at the beach, preparing for lessons, drinking beer after work and attended the party. I was expecting something like that in Slovenia, but here everything is different. Virtually all teachers - Slovenians, they have always lived here and their lives are already ordered. To make friends there, it took me more time and most of my Slovenian friends have nothing to do with school. Lake Bohinj If I really had a plaintive mood, I'd also complained about the fact that almost impossible to learn the local language (even though almost everything they say here in English), the fact that Ljubljana - a small village (although great that you can walk anywhere in town). One could complain, and the fact that it is very difficult to get close to people (although they are all very friendly), as well as the fact that I could not find a professional team in American football (even though every week playing cricket). Suburb of Ljubljana, however, as I suggested in his introduction, it was not conceived as a story, which forms a negative impression. With the advent of summer, I again fell in love with Slovenia. The teacher of English is not a lot of work in July and August, and during that time I met a lot of things: hiking in the mountains two or three times a week, while trying to see as much as possible, because in winter I only did what was running and reading (not simultaneously) to attend a party, barbecue, in the evenings to make forays into the city to participate in traditional festivals, drinking coffee by the river to sing karaoke in a Thai restaurant, spending time with friends who came to visit me, do not miss music events in Krizhanke (Summer Theatre, ca. Perevi.) walk on the evening football matches, to make water trips sail around the Kornati islands, to breathe the air in the Cinque Terre (National Park in Italy, ca. Perevi.) resting on the depressing factors of civilization in Rovinj (city in Croatia, approx. Perevi.) walk in hiking in Albania. And just where it was all winter? Thick woods near the village of Vrh So, now I'm leaving. I am sad that there still is a beautiful weather around there are many interesting events, and I came here as really good friends. But I'll be back. Maybe I'll move here, if global warming continues. And now I'm leaving, and to accelerate the process of raising the average temperature, to break some old refrigerators. Start material:
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