Hello everybody!
My name is Chris and I am an American student who is moving to Donetsk next month to study for a year at Donetsk National University. I am just finishing up a three-year masters degree in Krakow (yes, a polish-quality masters degree
and wanted to spend a year in Eastern Ukraine before heading back to the US for a doctoral program. My thesis was on US influence on Polish-Russian relations; Ukraine of course is a major piece of that relationship.
Anyway, I have spent quite a bit of time in Ukraine and have always really enjoyed myself. I can speak fairly good Russian, which makes everything more enjoyable. (Actually I mostly just take Russian words and plug them into Polish grammatical structures ... works at least 90% of the time)
Although I am never been a real (ie "certified") English teacher, I have spent summers volunteering at English language summer camps for Russian speaking teenagers both in Estonia and in Russia. This past summer I worked for a language school in New York teaching (read: babysitting) wealthy kids whose parents shipped them off to a school across the ocean.
Despite the babysitting though, it was still a great time. I would be interested in finding a job at a language school in Donetsk if I were able to teach without it affecting my class schedule too much. ( Most likely I wont be taking very many classes anyway...) Phone numbers, names, addresses .... anything you guys might know about schools there would be appreciated.
Ok, so that is my somewhat verbose introduction/help me. Thanks again and hopefully over the course of the year I will get to know some of you better! So, once again, Hello!
Chris
