Got a job offer in Rwanda. Anyone been there?

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its all cool tool u look outside your hotel window and these nikkas just pulled up

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My phd program. I should have traveled or taught away before beginning my academic career.

Arent you guys allowed defer your student loans for a year if you sign up to work for an American NGO upon graduation?

I know that one my American friends took up a teaching position in a disadvantaged qrea for a year so she could defer her loans and save up some cash.

Might be worth looking into.:yeshrug:

Whats your PhD in?
 

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its all cool tool u look outside your hotel window and these nikkas just pulled up

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Its actually really safe, bro. The crime rate is pretty low. Although the scars from the civil war loom large.

Civil wars are f*cking tragic. Rwanda amplifies that fact. You can visit some of the mass burial sites. If visiting one of them and learning about the events doesnt bring a tear to your eye - then there is something wrong with you.

F*cking Belgians. :deadhorse:
 

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I may be working there on a 6-month contract doing AIDS education


Mind giving extra info on the work? I'll be graduating soon as well and was looking for something like this to do after. What organization and what degree(s) do you have?
 

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Arent you guys allowed defer your student loans for a year if you sign up to work for an American NGO upon graduation?

I know that one my American friends took up a teaching position in a disadvantaged qrea for a year so she could defer her loans and save up some cash.

Might be worth looking into.:yeshrug:

Whats your PhD in?

Something like that would have been a great post undergrad/pre grad opportunity (and I actually did a US based Americorp program after undergrad). If I did it all over again, I have taught in Abu Dhabi after my Americorp program and before graduate school (I have a lot of friends/associates there now and they love it). However, with the current academic job market (research & publish or perish), my probable age at the time of graduation (32/33), and other priorities that I have for life (marriage and children), it's not something I would prioritize. My phd is in sociology with a statistics concentration. If/when I get tenure maybe I can write/pursue a grant to do research in a foreign country (I am really interested in post apartheid South Africa), but for now it's just coulda/shoulda.

Thank you for the encouragement though...you're not the typical coli poster.
 

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Something like that would have been a great post undergrad/pre grad opportunity (and I actually did a US based Americorp program after undergrad). If I did it all over again, I have taught in Abu Dhabi after my Americorp program and before graduate school (I have a lot of friends/associates there now and they love it). However, with the current academic job market (research & publish or perish), my probable age at the time of graduation (32/33), and other priorities that I have for life (marriage and children), it's not something I would prioritize. My phd is in sociology with a statistics concentration. If/when I get tenure maybe I can write/pursue a grant to do research in a foreign country (I am really interested in post apartheid South Africa), but for now it's just coulda/shoulda.

Thank you for the encouragement though...you're not the typical coli poster.

Abu Dhabi is an interesting place. How is it for blacks? I could deal with the whole no pork thing (bacon, sausages etc). I could deal with the repression. I could deal (barely) with their treatment of females. But to look down on me for being black....... Going postal.:whew:

South Africa is a beautiful place. But I fear that things may get ugly when Nelson Mandela passes away. Both the militant white and black nationalists have alluded to it. When Mandela passes, we war. Such a shame.

Genocidewatch.org has the white south africans at stage six of the genocidal process - preparation.

Thanks for the compliment btw. Aim for the stars.:yes:
 

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Abu Dhabi is an interesting place. How is it for blacks? I could deal with the whole no pork thing (bacon, sausages etc). I could deal with the repression. I could deal (barely) with their treatment of females. But to look down on me for being black....... Going postal.:whew:

South Africa is a beautiful place. But I fear that things may get ugly when Nelson Mandela passes away. Both the militant white and black nationalists have alluded to it. When Mandela passes, we war. Such a shame.

Genocidewatch.org has the white south africans at stage six of the genocidal process - preparation.

Thanks for the compliment btw. Aim for the stars.:yes:

:whew: I need to read up on that South Africa situation (had no idea). If that happens, I'm not even sure how I would react.

My friends in Abu Dhabi (men and women) LOVE it. They all describe it as one of the best things they ever did and they get paid sooo much money. Their traveling expenses back home are paid for and they are always vacationing in other countries for breaks. They seem like they are living the life and their students are very receptive to them (all of them are black).
 

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Abu Dhabi is an interesting place. How is it for blacks? I could deal with the whole no pork thing (bacon, sausages etc). I could deal with the repression. I could deal (barely) with their treatment of females. But to look down on me for being black....... Going postal.:whew:

South Africa is a beautiful place. But I fear that things may get ugly when Nelson Mandela passes away. Both the militant white and black nationalists have alluded to it. When Mandela passes, we war. Such a shame.

Genocidewatch.org has the white south africans at stage six of the genocidal process - preparation.


Thanks for the compliment btw. Aim for the stars.:yes:

damn :leon:

any more info on this?
 

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:whew: I need to read up on that South Africa situation (had no idea). If that happens, I'm not even sure how I would react.

My friends in Abu Dhabi (men and women) LOVE it. They all describe it as one of the best things they ever did and they get paid sooo much money. Their traveling expenses back home are paid for and they are always vacationing in other countries for breaks. They seem like they are living the life and their students are very receptive to them (all of them are black).

Are they teaching English? That is proving to be a decent lifestyle for those who take tefl serious.

One of my boys is over in Prague, teaching english. He was worried about racist reactions -but now he is turning down work and is enjoying a great lifestyle.

He was unemployed for a couple of months before he left. Maybe we expect to face racism too much and it may hold us back ?

Would that be a fair comment to make
 

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Are they teaching English? That is proving to be a decent lifestyle for those who take tefl serious.

One of my boys is over in Prague, teaching english. He was worried about racist reactions -but now he is turning down work and is enjoying a great lifestyle.

He was unemployed for a couple of months before he left. Maybe we expect to face racism too much and it may hold us back ?

Would that be a fair comment to make

I think they are teaching more than English because the programs they applied to require that they have an active teacher certification in the US.
 

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