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John - 2006-05-24

You will be asked to sign a contract for 34 hours teaching - you may think this is not a realistic situation and sign regardless you would be wrong!
They also dont mention the possibility of an 8.00am start, and a 9.30pm finish, in fact at the interview they will stress an early start gets and early finish wrong!
You will be offered initial accommodation in a village close to Avellino. The accommodation is great (you pay of course), and they tell you the buses are regular wrong!
Well in fact the buses are supposed to be regular, but unfortunately this is on the worst bus route in Southern Italy coming direct from Naples - & you never know when a bus will arrive (if at all).
Also they tell you the bus home from town leaves the bus station in Avellino at 9.20pm, so if you run from your lesson which finishes at 9.30 youll make it easily wrong!
It took me a week to discover that the bus officially leaves at 9.20 and you will always miss it! (they are on time going towards Naples),so you then have to wait in the open air until 10.35 for the next one!
So you arrive home at 11 to leave the next morning at 8? Nice.

I was working between 34 & 38 hours a week, but actually spending 60 or 70 hours out of the house every week.

They will show you an apartment or two in the town, but the norm in Italy is to rent without furniture (or even a kitchen) so your choices are severely limited.

You arrive, and your first days training is to watch the inlingua DVD and thats it! Now this is not a normal TEFL method, in fact its awful, but you must learn it because next comes your practice lesson teaching the boss. You will say the exact words laid out in the method or you will repeat it again & again until you reach robotic tendencies! When youre in the classroom you can do what you want, but in the training you will do it the inlingua way!

inlingua is of course a franchise but this school strays so far outside the inlingua way of operating its ridiculous- no pay for no-shows, no holiday pay, working hours overload, etc etc.

Not a pleasant experience and one to be avoided

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