I'm Audrone from Lithuania

[Gerda]

Hi everybody!

My name is Audrone and I come from Lithuania. I work as a teacher at a small village school and I volunteer for Animal Protection Society in Lithuania. I am having a good time in this site and at the same time I want to improve my English.

Good luck in your studies for everyone!

[Eugene2114]

Hi Audrone, being a teacher himself by diploma couldn’t but reply. Have visited your county several times and took a shining /an idiom/ to its people. My respect for your volunteering, I mean it. My guess you teach Biology ? I used to... What part of Lithuania do you live in and how it is to be a village teacher there?
Best regards.

[Gerda]

Hi Eugene,

Thank you very much for your message. It is nice that you visited and liked my country. Where do you come from? I work as an English teacher, what about you? What do you teach?

Best regards,

Audrone

[Eugene2114]

Hello again, Audrone,
I’m Ukranian,live 10 km away from Kyiv. Teaching Biology was a three-year span just at the beginning of my working activity - was sent to live and work as a village teacher; that’s why I was interested how you cope with the disadvantages /I hope,you have none/ of living in a village.
Now earn my living as a sales manager. English is a kind of hobby for me, in short, it’s non-profitable practice, just for self-esteem.
Best wishes, Eugene

[Gerda]

Hi Eugene,

I have visited the Ukraine once, Kyiv is really stunning for its Othodox Churches, the Crimean Peninsulla is wondeerful because of its hot climate, warm sea and cliffy mountains. It's interesting how you managed to transfer your work from biology teacher to a sales manager? Can you share the information? In fact, I feel that I am not in right place working as a teacher, that I need something else to work. Or maybe it's too late for changes, because I am already 44?

Well, I don't live in the village, but in a little town called Ignalina and I commute 3 days a week to the village school that is about 10 km away. We share the car with my neighbour, so it is cheaper to travel. It was my own choice to go to work to the village school about 8 years ago, but to tell you the truth, I often regret this choice of mine. You see, they had previously offered me to work in my hometown's school, but the reason why I didn't want to work in that school is that I had finished this school myself from the 1st grade to 11th and didn'd want to return there again as a teacher.

The disadvantages that I see working in the village school are first of all travel expenses, secondly most (not all) students don't want to study and are satisfied with bad results. But I see some advantages while working in the village school, for example, small classes, few students, fewer aftercuricculum activities, as students have to go home by school bus at the scheduled time.

That's all for this time, Hope to hear from you soon.

Have a nice weekend!

Audrone

[Eugene2114]

Good evening Audrone,
Thank you for your openness,will try to be likewise in my reports. Firstly, being your age is all right, believe me -I’m over 50 and it’s OK with me. I mean if you feel ready to meet the changes in your life. All you told
me about I experienced myself, but to tell the truth, never had dreamt to be a teacher. Worked as an engineer at a plant, was involved in small business traveling with bags throughout Europe /remember the ’90-s?/.
My distant relatives from Lithuania then managed to get as far as London and lived there for about 6 years. You do have the proper passport, don’t you? Nowadays many of our women work abroad...
The point is - what you expect to happen to break the ice? Ignalina is a place where a nuclear plant is /or was/ situated, am I wrong? Is it far from Vilnius or other big city with more job opportunities? Did you think it up?
As to my transfer to a new job -many attempts, many resumes... There’s no other way to change the routine.
That’s all for now, with best wishes from Ukraine,
Eugene.

[Gregory7]

[Emchi]

We can got a big improvement in there! Good Luck!

[Xiaomuou]

Hello Audrone,

Welcome to English-test! I'm so happy to hear that you are enjoying your time here and I hope we will be seeing a lot more of you around the forum.

I was happy to hear that you volunteer for an animal protection society. I admire you for this. I think animals definitely need more people looking out for their well being in this world. Do you have any pets? My husband and I have a rescue dog from the local animal shelter. We've had him for over 7 years now (he's over 11 years old).

Take care!
Megan
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