Posted by Kevin Morgan on Mon, Mar 15, 2010
Last week I posted a video about our volunteer abroad and teach abroad participants in Thailand - a ride on a motorcycle taxi. Following the "traffic" theme, I took this video from a taxi. I was visiting our Conversation Corps and Conversation Partner locations in Ho Chi Minh City. I am fascinated by how people get around in different parts of the world. In Vietnam you see cars, busses, but mostly motorcycles. Sometimes you'll see a family of five riding on the same bike. The lines painted in the middle of the road seem to be mere "suggestions"! Driving in Ho Chi Minh City means really being alert, and looking in ALL directions.
Vietnam is an incredible place to visit ... and even greater to come to for volunteering and teaching. With GeoVisions, you can help students at leading hospitality colleges improve their conversational English. You can choose to volunteer in Ho Chi Minh City for a month, then spend another month in the Mekong Delta, at Vietnam's incredible beaches, or in the capital city, Hanoi.
Vietnam has a 90%+ literacy rate. Young people spend a higher percentage of discretionary income on education than any other Asian country. Vietnam supplies laborers to countries where they NEED to speak English, or Japanese, or Chinese, or Korean -- and you can help them speak foreign languages better. Vietnam - 2010 - It's high on my list of places you've got to be!
Posted by Randy LeGrant on Sat, Jul 11, 2009
Volunteer 15 hours each week in Vietnam in exchange for free room and board.
Conversation Partners are placed in either Ho Chi Min City or Hanoi. Weekends are usually free for Conversation Partners to explore local sites. You can even choose to spend one month in Ho Chi Minh City and one month in Hanoi.
What is a Conversation Partner?
Volunteer to be a Conversation Partner and you will be speaking conversational English to the local police department, hotel staff, local business professionals, teachers, business importers and exporters, travel guides, students. You do not need to be a teacher or to have teaching experience to be a Conversation Partner. You just need to meet with the group each day (up to 15 hours each week) and converse in English with them. It's fun and rewarding.
You may live with a host family (free private room and 3 healthy home cooked meals each day) or you may live in a dorm in a private room or even a hotel (free private room and free meals each day).
Put in a couple of hours each day literally talking. The rest of your time is spent traveling and experiencing the culture of your host country in depth. "Meet" the group you will tutor in advance through email and phone calls. Each business or organization is interviewed and carefully screened by in-country staff.
Do you want to learn a new language or brush up on your current language skills? We can easily arrange optional language classes for you. It's up to you.
Placements in Vietnam as a Conversation Partner:
You can choose to be placed in Ho Chi Minh City. Work with college-age students at the Saigon Tourist Hospitality College. Live at the school or in a nearby apartment and have meals with the students and teachers at the school. This is a one-month placement.
Choose Hanoi for placement at a school that prepares students for overseas work in English-speaking countries. The school is operated by the Labour Overseas Deployment Corporation. You will work closely with English teachers. Students will be studying English, but need lots of help with conversation skills. In Hanoi, you will live in housing right at the school, as there are overseas teaching staff that live on site. This is a one-month placement.
Choose both placements for a 2-month stay.
Apply now for the opportunity of a liftetime and a very unique way to see Vietnam.