I am a Sierra Leonean presently living in the Netherlands.During the ten-year period I covered in my first country of refuge-Liberia,I earned some two-year college education in the Bishop John Collins Teachers College of the Polytechnic in Monrovia under the tutelage of the UNHCR-Liberia.Today an invited refugee here in Holland,I find myself in a relatively strange and complicating situation where I am like coerced to only study a language that does'nt hold as much importance as the English language-a leading international language.Most striking of all,I belive without at least a first degree in a particular discipline,I must find it perplexing to build any brighter future.With such in and with my understanding that every second,minute and hour adds to my age hence takes me closer to my grave, I wish to employ this medium to humbly plead with the world to help me fulfil my ambition in completing the course I earlier started pursuing while in L iberia over the last decade.
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Go to Jamaica cheap education & they are based on the British Education System
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I have been there. And so have my kids. It is a frustrating and engaging experience that gives everyone a lot of hope. \n\nThe War in Iraq, the unequal distribution of wealth in this country, lack of value for human life EVERYWHERE, even in the U.S. and corruption in the political process everywhere certainly is the impetus for young people, like you to know where to start. \n\nDon't throw up your hands in despair. That would be really depressing. Now is the time to roll up your sleeves and get to work.\n\nWhen I was 18, many years ago, I didn't like it that black people couldn't go to a restaurant and have a cup of coffee like white people did. I rolled up my sleeves and I started the first coeducational dormitory in my state college where black ladies and white ladies were actually roommates.\n\nMy parents thought it was great. My parent's neighbors thought I was a crazy liberal chick who caught a dreadful disease from hanging out with black people. Today, the notion that black people have to live in separate neighborhoods or eat at separate restaurants is dreadful. But back then, it was the way things were. I made a difference by just changing my college dormitory.\n\nIn 1980 I was working in a state legislature. I had small children and a job in legislature. A group of young people came in with signs saying, "End Apartheid in South Africa" and their demonstration outside was spilling inside the state capitol. I had to throw the kids out of the building because their signs couldn't be inside the building. Later, at lunch, I ran into one of them. She said, "I know you hate me, but I have to eat lunch." I told her, "I don't hate you, but I have to do my job. If I didn't have to pay for my daughter's orthodontia, pay my house payment and get my timing chain on my car fixed, I would be out there with the same signs you are carrying. But I need to do my job so that I can raise my kids to carry on in your place in another 20 years."\n\nIn 1996 my daughter got an assignment in her World Politics class to explain the controversy in East Timor. She sat down to examine the political and economic issues surrounding the government oppression of the East Timor people and she became furious at the exploitation of the East Timor peasants at the hands of robber baron coffee magnates and the corruption in the Indonesian government. \n\nIn 1998, when the World Trade Organization met in Seattle, she was one of the demonstrators. Later she became an environmental activist. \n\nI couldn't help but remember that lady who brought the anti-apartheid poster into the capitol. \n\nSomewhere between where I helped to integrate a dorm room and where my daughter sat in a tree to stop a forest from being cut down, there was a lady that I only met once, who was holding down the fort and standing up to some issue that really ignited her passions. \n\nRoll up your sleeves. Take a stand and fight for it. Go into politics. The old geezers who are there are corrupt because they have been there so long that it is an inside job to them. \n\nChange the rules. There has got to be a better way and by your challenging the old geezers who have been there too long, you are making a difference that comes with some solutions.
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Stand outside primary and junior schools in England and ask mothers dropping off their brats in their 4X4 s to sponser you. Try to emulate Mark thatcher and get lost - and you'll get on the news. With luck they won't find you....  Learn to spell across before you go and have some injections and that sort of thing. Second thoughts - that's for wimps - go and catch something nasty and tell us all about it when you get back. Shites across Africa with luck!
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Correcto, mi hermano,hermana, i have my girlfriend from Dominican, and it would be crazy to translate that hymn into dutch. A hymn has to be in the original language.
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How about volunteering with something like Doctors without borders - or the Peace Corp.  lots of change, adventure, shouldn't cost you too much and you would be doing something great.\n\nOr - get a cottage on the coast somewhere and write a great novel about your life in Scotland, or Austrailia!  I'd love to read it.
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I believe Kutztown State University\n(Kutztown, Pensylvania) may have what you're looking for.\nIt's a fine college set in the Pennsylvania Dutch country.\nYou can find them here;\nhttp://www.kutztown.edu/\n\nAlso, give this a try;\nThe University Of Wisconsin - Madison\nhttp://polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/german/dutch/\n\n\nGood Luck!
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Very well done!  I spent my childhood in West Africa and knew no hatred for others.  It truly hurt to come home and find it here.
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Well, there is a difference between moving to a country to settle, in which case it is perfectly reasonable to expect to learn the language, and just visiting!\nI've just finished reading J K Jerome's 'Three men on the Bummel' which was written over  100 years ago, but raises a similar point, about the prevalence of anglophones in Europe compared with our lack of polyglot skills ourselves. He put it down to weaknesses in our education system, and I think he had a point. For example, I can't speak French, I can only speak 'O level French' which seems to be a language unique to English schools!
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Hey, agno -- here's a news flash for you, baby!  Shouldn't you be in class right now, learning to read and write? Geez, I don't know which is worse -- your stupidity or your illiteracy.  \n\nI'll tell you something for free -- I don't know a soul who gives a rat's ass who wants to stay in the stone age and who doesn't. My theory is -- you want to live in a mud hut and drink muddy water while your local tribal council chooses not to dig a new well, or build a school, then you feel free to stay right where you are.  Anyone who wants to get up and walk out of the dung heap and try for a little fresh air is welcome to do so too.\n\nYou wouldn't be squalling if your ass was stuck over there in the mud. \n\nDamn shame you live here and you can't even be bothered to take advantage of the opportunities laid before you -- like learning to write.  Damn, your comments are about the most discombobulated I've seen in days.\n\nMaybe you'd like a free ride over there. I'd wager someone out there would pay your ticket.  \n\nSo, why don't you get with the program.  Run along to school now, and leave the big talk to the grown-ups, okay?
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There is a lot of money out there for schooling. You have to put in the initiative to find it. I am on the East coast of the US and I know of very successful people from Ethiopia who are hear doing their studies. First look up scholarships that you qualify for as a student your age. You need to start looking online at some colleges you would want to get your education at, and what you have to do as an international student to get in. I can help you further with research because I am doing a graduate school/scholarship search for myself right now. Email me and I can help you further. sama784@yahoo.com
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If you haven't already gotten your Masters or PhD (because you sound like you're certainly qualified to do so), I would suggest a part time career solution. Go overseas and volunteer with an NGO for a while. There, you will probably be able to get some hands-on experience, as well as a feel for the political and social issues at rift in the area. All this will look great on a resume and could lead to a very prosperous career in research in the future.
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Hi it's your lucky day. I'm willing to help you I speak Dutch, English and other. how can I be of help. Mail me.\nzapit333@yahoo.com
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The best way, in my experience, is go to one of those total immersion programs (many universities over this type of program during the summer), or better yet, spend a couple of years in a country where the language is primarily spoken. \n\nThere are lots of ways to do this, to name just a few: Peace Corps, colleges and university programs, missionary organizations.\n\nNothing else will ever get you to the point where you are really comfortable with the language, unless you live with a native speaker of the language. Even then it's tough!
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If you look for something bad you will find it... every country has racists... you will only have a miserable time if you go out there expecting to a victim of that.... my family moved to The Netherlands and I had the same fears that you have... my sister and I were the first and only black people in our neighborhood and school...  \n\nThe best thing you can do for yourself is learn the language... that way you can also appreciate the good things that are said to you.... at least that worked for us... try it!!\n\nWishing you the best!
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have you thought about joining the peace corps? my brother was going to do that....they offered him an intensive course in Spanish...and training. Don't know if it is right for you...hard work...but you get it see the world...and help out.  As long as you have a Bachelors degree you can join up. Usually you can pick where you want to go....out of available places.\n\nAlso looks great on your resume...
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Hi Ruvim!\n\nIm 17 and I live in New Zealand and Im applying to a few exchange programs! I've got msn so feel free to add me its goldprincess89@hotmail.com. Where are you interested in going to? Im trying out for Italy and Spain! I love both cultures and would love to be immersed in a different world. \n\nHope to hear from you!
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Send your resume to any of there centers in your country... do lots of humanitarian work... be very good in studied... they will call you.