Vacations

jibber · 06-03-2010, 05:01 PM

I live in Istanbul at the moment, I've been here since september. I love it over here, and I'm gonna come back here after travelling for another year and a bit.

FETCHER. · 06-03-2010, 05:07 PM

I've only stopped over in Istanbul a few times, for an overnight once too. All in all I've been to turkey 13 times, 14 once I come back from my holidays in july

How are you finding staying abroad? did you get accomodation/job easily? Sorry for the interogation but I plan on moving abroad soooon

ps do you have a degree or what that'd help you get a job and such

? or did you do it like im doing, finding a random job haha.

jibber · 06-03-2010, 05:12 PM

totally random. I came to turkey for a month long backpacking trip last may, and just fell into a bartending job for the summer in a little resort town on the mediterranean coast. After the summer I moved in with a friend of mine who i'd met a few months earlier who was already in Istanbul and she took me to her boss and I got a job teaching english right away. It was super easy getting set up with a job and apartment, slightly more difficult getting used to living in a MASSIVE city, but I really love it here now. Now I just need to work on my Turkish, haha.

FETCHER. · 06-03-2010, 05:20 PM

I'm so jealous you lucky beggar, I'm worried incase I go somewhere, find a good apartment/job, but not a decent job/apartment if you get me. A job teaching english would be perfect, but I assume I'd never some sort of qualification for that

jibber · 06-03-2010, 05:26 PM

Depends where you go. Over here if you're a native english speaker that's really all you need. I had no training, no experience, and only and online TEFL course (which is completely useless for all practical purposes but helps on the resume). In places like Japan and Korea you need a degree and some kind of esl training course (TEFL, CELTA, TEOSL etc.) You can get an online certification or do an actual classroom course (which would probably be much more helpful), but for the most part, if you're a native english speaker and you've been to uni, you can usually get yourself sorted with a job pretty easily.

FETCHER. · 06-03-2010, 05:30 PM

I'm from Scotland, I'm hoping to go over to france for a few months after my holiday, I'm 18 and never been to uni before, and I have no idea about housing markets, so much going against me but I'm determined to do it!

I may extend my holiday to Turkey this year haha if being an english speaker is all you really need!

glastonelle · 06-03-2010, 07:45 PM

I was born in Italy, so I like going back there during the summer. Havent made it for 4 years though

Otherwise my favourite holiday places are Santorini Island in Greece and Provence in France. I'd love to go to London though

Astronomer · 06-03-2010, 07:51 PM

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Originally Posted by glastonelle

I was born in Italy, so I like going back there during the summer. Havent made it for 4 years though

I am so jealous! Where abouts in Italy are you from? My dad is italian and I have an italian/ EU passport and citizenship but I have NEVER been there! I really want to go, I've got lots of family who I could stay with... just have to find the time and money for airfares!

glastonelle · 06-03-2010, 08:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Lateralus

I am so jealous! Where abouts in Italy are you from? My dad is italian and I have an italian/ EU passport and citizenship but I have NEVER been there! I really want to go, I've got lots of family who I could stay with... just have to find the time and money for airfares!

My dads Italian too! I was born in the town on Santa Margherita Ligure, in Liguria. Lived there for 6 years but then moved to NZ because my Mums from here.

You should go, its lovely. During the summer go by the coast, and in the winter head for somewhere like Milan. Its absolutely beautiful

Astronomer · 06-03-2010, 08:33 PM

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Originally Posted by glastonelle

My dads Italian too! I was born in the town on Santa Margherita Ligure, in Liguria. Lived there for 6 years but then moved to NZ because my Mums from here.

You should go, its lovely. During the summer go by the coast, and in the winter head for somewhere like Milan. Its absolutely beautiful

Sounds amazing. All of my family over there are located in quite rural areas, probably closest to Naples. Whenever my parents have gone they've shown me photographs and the countryside looks so pretty.

Also... that is very weird because my dad is italian and my mum is originally from New Zealand, too! Odd!

Parli italiano?

06-03-2010, 05:01 PM	#101 (permalink)
jibber Freeskier Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Istanbul was Constantinople now it's Istanbul not Constantinople... Posts: 1,536	I live in Istanbul at the moment, I've been here since september. I love it over here, and I'm gonna come back here after travelling for another year and a bit. __________________ What you've done becomes the judge of what you're going to do -- especially in other people's minds. When you're traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road. William Least Heat Moon, Blue Highways Your toughest competitor lives in your head. Some days his name is fear, or pain, or gravity. Stomp his ass. HOOKED ON THE WHITE POWDER

06-03-2010, 05:12 PM	#103 (permalink)
jibber Freeskier Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Istanbul was Constantinople now it's Istanbul not Constantinople... Posts: 1,536	totally random. I came to turkey for a month long backpacking trip last may, and just fell into a bartending job for the summer in a little resort town on the mediterranean coast. After the summer I moved in with a friend of mine who i'd met a few months earlier who was already in Istanbul and she took me to her boss and I got a job teaching english right away. It was super easy getting set up with a job and apartment, slightly more difficult getting used to living in a MASSIVE city, but I really love it here now. Now I just need to work on my Turkish, haha. __________________ What you've done becomes the judge of what you're going to do -- especially in other people's minds. When you're traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road. William Least Heat Moon, Blue Highways Your toughest competitor lives in your head. Some days his name is fear, or pain, or gravity. Stomp his ass. HOOKED ON THE WHITE POWDER

06-03-2010, 05:26 PM	#105 (permalink)
jibber Freeskier Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Istanbul was Constantinople now it's Istanbul not Constantinople... Posts: 1,536	Depends where you go. Over here if you're a native english speaker that's really all you need. I had no training, no experience, and only and online TEFL course (which is completely useless for all practical purposes but helps on the resume). In places like Japan and Korea you need a degree and some kind of esl training course (TEFL, CELTA, TEOSL etc.) You can get an online certification or do an actual classroom course (which would probably be much more helpful), but for the most part, if you're a native english speaker and you've been to uni, you can usually get yourself sorted with a job pretty easily. __________________ What you've done becomes the judge of what you're going to do -- especially in other people's minds. When you're traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road. William Least Heat Moon, Blue Highways Your toughest competitor lives in your head. Some days his name is fear, or pain, or gravity. Stomp his ass. HOOKED ON THE WHITE POWDER

06-03-2010, 07:45 PM	#107 (permalink)
glastonelle lets make a mess, lioness Join Date: May 2010 Location: NZ Posts: 400	I was born in Italy, so I like going back there during the summer. Havent made it for 4 years though Otherwise my favourite holiday places are Santorini Island in Greece and Provence in France. I'd love to go to London though