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Un-Educated by Accident of Birth
Yes this is the Bali that we all know. Verdunt green rice terraces, wonderful dance and costumes, lovely friendly welcoming people in the villages.
What you have to look very carefully to see is the desperation behind the myth.
Visualise being a young person under 12yo, born into a poor family in a village. To start your day, you will wake at around 4.30am, wearing the same clothing as you went to sleep in, on a rush mat entangled with your siblings. The morning Mandi will be cold water and your breakfast meagre. House or animal chores take the first hours then you will possibly be on the 7am school shift [there are two per day] You are most likely to have to walk a kilometre or two to get there. School is is most likely to be drab and bare as well as hot in concrete rooms with little air flow and no fan let alone AC. The class group will be around fifty or so and the resources meagre. Most learning will be rote since your family are unlikely to be able to afford exercise books and pens for you. At age 12 your education after five or so years will be poor by western standards in fact you will be barely literate. Your future? Many return to from whence they came and perpetuate the cycle. The really entrepreneural by nature and drive will always rise above the norm.
Indonesia has the fourth largest poulation in the world. Like all countries their natural resources are finite. They have gone from being an oil exporter twenty years ago to being an importer today. However the resource they have that is growing is their Human Resource. Education is the key to tapping this.

A small sum of $200 will supply a year of vocational education to a secondary student and open their future. This amount of money though is an insurmountable hurdle for too many village families. We at English Explorer are supporting and benefacting the Primary School at Les village in North West Bali, our longer term goal is to support, with your help and contributions, the secondary students from the village to attend vocational training.
Please drop me a mail and discuss how you can become involved in this very worthwhile project.
harrycs@englishexplorer.net.au

WE VALUE ADD UPTO $400 FOR YOU
Its been a while, in fact too long since I wrote for general distribution. This post gives me a great sense of pleasure though because we are value adding upto $400 for you when you enrol to train with us.English Explorer is a small business and as such requires a lot of time just planning where to and servicing the right now. By staying very small we preserve - we hope - a very high level of personal engagement with you our clients, students and friends. Too often I see wages staff just filling space. My question on pay day would allways be "what have you contributed this week and what was its value". So if its been a while between posts its because of our time spent on engaging with clients needs.
Recently we have had a serious update session on our website. We have also been able to change some pricing- to your benefit! To compete vigorously and remain as price setters in a global market place - and be a quality provider of TESOL with AQTF as well as international accreditation- we have to run lean and mean at homebase. Our Professional TESOL Certificate, Advanced Professional Certificate, Diploma and Advanced Diploma have just become a much better deal. To do this we have had to add price penalties to the buying courses in small modules. We cannot all be winners, but those that support us are now being well rewarded with upto $400 in potential value adding available. We are committed to being price setters as well as simply the Best trainers available. Our ethos is summed up in the acronym FISH.
Friendly, Informative, Supportive and Helpful.


We have been active in teaching Chinese meat workers on a weekly basis over the last four years. The families arrived with little or no English and it has been extremely gratifying in having guided them to progressively, achieveing driving licenses and then their permanent residency based on English language ability. These sorts of activities enable us to keep our TESOL units meaningful and relevant. We create all of our own learning units, based on real classroom experiences. We do not on sell off the shelf pre packed courses that have been around for years and are tired and need a funeral. Our work with these migrants has been made even more successful by two great Trainers Margaret and Aaron who work for us on contract.
Why would you not join our learning family and take your TESOL journey with us?
Drop me a mail to harrycs@englishexplorer.net.au any time for a chat or SKYPE me at englishexplorer. Harry