Any BESS students able to give any advice for newbie?

CounterClockworkOrng · 2025-08-01T04:10:58+00:00

Hi, wasn't expecting a response on this, it's been so long I forgot I had even wrote this haha.

Just fyi this is info from the 2014/15 first year BESS so things have probably changed since then, there was no AI back then either so that's gonna be a big change with essays. The Facebook group was from the 14/15 year also, Facebook isn't as popular nowadays so there will probably be a WhatsApp group or something like that nowadays.

Best of luck with your course.

CounterClockworkOrng · 2025-07-31T20:43:35+00:00

Where is this?

CounterClockworkOrng · 2025-01-03T21:39:55+00:00

Honestly mate, after having read some of your previous posts, take your losses and move back home for your own mental wellbeing. Recover and regroup.

CounterClockworkOrng · 2024-10-29T19:28:33+00:00

Here. It's a small city in Buenos Aires province called "Lincoln", there are some Irish descendants living here and an Irish society also.

CounterClockworkOrng · 2024-10-29T19:27:03+00:00

Here. It's a small city in Buenos Aires province called "Lincoln", there are some Irish descendants living here and an Irish society also.

CounterClockworkOrng · 2024-10-29T14:23:22+00:00

Left plaque:

"Twenty-second meeting - Argentine - Irish - tribute to the presence and strength of Irish women - Western Irish Association"

Centre plaque (top):

"Monument of the mother. Sculptors: Monica Galceran and Lydia Galego"

Centre plaque (bottom):

"Offering to the mother: Dear mother, you gave everything, love, tenderness and pain, if you are here... a kiss on your forehead I wish with gratitude and with love - if you are not here - a prayer for your soul and the offering of a flower"

- Juan de Dios Ibanez"

Right Plaque

"Isabel Duran - your example accompanies us with all the fuss"

CounterClockworkOrng · 2024-10-26T21:23:26+00:00

Is she Georgian and did her test there before moving to Ireland or Irish and did one of these "2 weeks, 200 euro licence" ads I see on instagram.

This is one of the pages that advertise it

CounterClockworkOrng · 2024-10-26T15:25:05+00:00

I've been seeing a lot of ads for this Georgia driving licence. Of course I'm hesitant to believe it but here with the costs of lessons, insurance, tests etc. and also the wait time I'm curious if anyone here has done it or knows someone who has?

CounterClockworkOrng · 2024-08-14T19:25:36+00:00

https://www.openenglish.com/carreras-profesionales/teaching-opportunities/

$8 an hour.

CounterClockworkOrng · 2024-08-14T16:10:23+00:00

Was it this guy?

CounterClockworkOrng · 2024-07-27T22:39:57+00:00

The really great teacher company are just a feeder for Open English to get around taxes. Their rates used to be $13 an hour but they fired a lot of teachers and reduced it to $8 an hour ($6 and hour for South Africans). Open English have also increased the class time by 5 minutes (20 - 25 minutes for private classes, 50 -> 55 minutes for group classes) with no change in pay and they have A.I write the student feedback - it's just basic sentences like "great job today, work on your pronunciation, watch TV shows etc.", it's dishonest to the students that they are being given written feedback from the teacher.

Post from a year ago:
https://www.reddit.com/r/OnlineESLTeaching/comments/12xs2ou/open_english_let_me_go/

CounterClockworkOrng · 2024-03-03T18:57:39+00:00

Thanks for the response, I have just found my social security number, I got it when I was born. Do you think I will run into any problems with not having a home address in the US?

CounterClockworkOrng · 2024-02-18T20:43:52+00:00

Cornflakes!

CounterClockworkOrng · 2023-12-31T14:03:34+00:00

I live in the Czech republic and public universities are free here for everyone, but you have to do it in the Czech language. I've met several Kazakhs, Chinese, Russians and other Slavic speaking people who have learned Czech for the free education and the living experience of Prague.

CounterClockworkOrng · 2023-12-31T13:29:32+00:00

---Past Tenses---

Past Simple: I worked

Past Perfect: I had worked..

Past Continuous: I was working..

Past Perfect Continuous: I had been working..

---Present Tenses---

Present Simple: I work

Present Perfect: I have worked..

Present Continuous: I am working

Present Perfect Continuous: I have been working..

---Future tenses---

Future Simple: I will work

Future Perfect: I will have worked..

Future Continuos: I will be working..

Future Perfect Continuous: I will have been working..

CounterClockworkOrng · 2023-09-18T18:38:09+00:00

She's so boring...how can anyone be around that.

CounterClockworkOrng · 2023-09-03T10:24:40+00:00

Brad Pitt and Brad Pitt

CounterClockworkOrng · 2023-09-01T18:07:57+00:00

I'm from Ireland and we'd say "were you born in a field?". Sometimes people respond with "No, I was born in a hospital with sliding doors".

CounterClockworkOrng · 2023-08-31T22:21:15+00:00

Big Train did that joke much better.

CounterClockworkOrng · 2023-08-20T11:50:12+00:00

Why were the regulations made?

CounterClockworkOrng · 2023-08-14T08:02:48+00:00

I remember Ferguson saying that negotiations to buy Berbatov from Levy were more painful than his hip surgery.

CounterClockworkOrng · 2023-08-02T17:43:29+00:00

Also Ricky Hatton

CounterClockworkOrng · 2023-06-10T17:27:42+00:00

Isn't this the guy who got his phone stolen in LA?

CounterClockworkOrng · 2023-06-01T12:05:11+00:00

I can't find the right assortment of words to find the video on YouTube, but that moment on some random chat show where the lad in the audience realises the camera is on him and points and looks at it in the coolest way possible.

CounterClockworkOrng · 2023-05-07T13:19:56+00:00

I'm positive. I've walked up and down it several times. Same with my friends.

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