Re: Cameroon and Ethiopa
Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2017 1:08 pm
@Thames Pirate
There's not a single African country safer than Thailand. More stable, perhaps - those tyrannical dictators sure keep an iron grip on power. If that's your idea of 'stable' then yeah sure, whatever.
'Keeping your pants on' is a hardship, as is using a condom. It comes across very clearly that you're a woman with those two phrases.
Many of 'the people' in Africa are so poverty stricken they would happily kill you for $5.
Unlimited internet is not a neccessity, but very few things in life are strictly 'neccessities'. It's still a hardship not to have it. Reading books and hiking is boring, and at any case can be done anywhere. You're trying to make the ordinary and the mundane into a positive, and I'm not buying it.
If I want to go sailing or horse riding, I'll join a club that supports it, there's no need for me to work at an IS in Africa to do it. This so-called extremely valuable 'IB experience' can be had in a great many countries, and in any case is definitely not worth putting up with the hardship of Africa to get. Most schools have opportunities for high performers to move into leadership roles, this isn't specific to Africa.
I maintain the only people who teach in Africa at the current compensation levels (outside of LIS Angola and AS Lagos) are those who are a few sandwiches short of a picnic. Or the insane.
There's not a single African country safer than Thailand. More stable, perhaps - those tyrannical dictators sure keep an iron grip on power. If that's your idea of 'stable' then yeah sure, whatever.
'Keeping your pants on' is a hardship, as is using a condom. It comes across very clearly that you're a woman with those two phrases.
Many of 'the people' in Africa are so poverty stricken they would happily kill you for $5.
Unlimited internet is not a neccessity, but very few things in life are strictly 'neccessities'. It's still a hardship not to have it. Reading books and hiking is boring, and at any case can be done anywhere. You're trying to make the ordinary and the mundane into a positive, and I'm not buying it.
If I want to go sailing or horse riding, I'll join a club that supports it, there's no need for me to work at an IS in Africa to do it. This so-called extremely valuable 'IB experience' can be had in a great many countries, and in any case is definitely not worth putting up with the hardship of Africa to get. Most schools have opportunities for high performers to move into leadership roles, this isn't specific to Africa.
I maintain the only people who teach in Africa at the current compensation levels (outside of LIS Angola and AS Lagos) are those who are a few sandwiches short of a picnic. Or the insane.