It’s with pleasure that we welcome this week’s new students to LEXIS Brisbane. Please make them feel welcome as they join their classes and get involved in the life of the school.
Fabricio Ravazi (Brazil) and Mauricio Menossi (Brazil)
Welcome to this week’s new students who have just joined LEXIS Brisbane. We wish you have a wonderful time and enjoy your studies while you are staying here.
Julius Henne (Germany) and Asami Furuta (Japan)
Tomaz Zitek, who was studying with us for 40 weeks, was successful in finding a company that was happy to sponsor him for a Business visa.
He is a very likeable, mature and highly informed student. Whenever the class struggled with some specific information, Tomaz had the answer ready!
We are all very proud and happy that he has landed himself this job restoring pipe organs for the Brisbane City Town Hall.
We would like to share his success story and new challenge!
Hi, Thomas. Can you tell us something about yourself?
Yes, certainly, my name is Thomas Zitek, I come from Slovenia. It is a small country at the heart of Europe. In May this year I completed 40 years.
Why did you decide to study English in Australia?
Last year, 2010, due to the economic crisis, I was made redundant twice as a “technological surplus”. Sometime in May, the decision was made to a third dismissal do not think waiting around in the company I was employed as an Assistant designer. In addition, I had some time thinking about resettling elsewhere, “warmer”. I am a man who does not like winter, snow and ice on roads in the morning. On the Internet I found the current migration agent, who advised me for another school, due to better prices but I decided on Global Village.
When did you arrive in Brisbane?
I arrived in Brisbane last December. I started to attend lessons the week before Christmas, 20th December. After passing the test, I was classified as Pre-Intermediate.
An interesting fact is your attendance. How were youso regular?
Often times I watched other students when they are missing at times. But they do not worry, they are taken care of their parents when who pay for school. If you pay by yourself, you watch that you are always present, because you know how to respect money and you don’t want to throw it away. Finally I took the whole course very seriously so as to go to work. I’m really only missing once and even then I had a meeting with the agent on the Sunshine Coast and a few times I missed out on afternoon-class options.
I heard that you managed to get a very interesting job. How did you do it?
I mentioned that I come from Slovenia and I have more than 18 years of work experience. The first 15 years I worked as a designer in an Organ Workshop in Maribor, which operates under the auspices of the Archdiocese of Maribor. In 15 years, I designed over 70 new pipe organs. Due to the very poor pay Jul 2007 I left the company and began in a nearby crane company. And then came the crisis …
In Australia I actually came to find a job and get off the ground here; in short, I shall move here and create my own home. But to achieve this you need some knowledge of English and a job that allows you to survive and a bunch of money for the migration office or the sponsor, which is the best option.
I should mention that from April this year I’m looking for intensive work at least part-time but by the middle of September I found. In the middle of August I sent a request to work on all major Organ workshops in Australia. And a miracle happened. On the third day, I got an email with the message to come to the workshop for an interview. Can you imagine what this means?
Can you describe how your interview took place?
On Monday afternoon I agreed to appear in the company. The Administrator adopted me and we waited for the owner, who arrived a few minutes after me. The interview with the owner was quite relaxed; also present was the foreman. They showed me a home workshop and rented warehouse where they stored the main parts of the Brisbane City Hall organ, which is currently undergoing renovation and restoration. Along the way I asked a few technical issues, revealing how we protect vital organ parts of the organ from moisture, etc. After returning to their home workshop with the owners we talked and he told me that he wanted someone who would know exactly details of the organ and would be able to construct and prepare documents, manage the whole project construction, down to the last detail. Here my past work references from my former company opened the door to Australia.
I was so happy when he informed me that I have the job. We agreed to finish school first because the company works to 3.30pm, and I started on Monday, 3rdOctober.
So you finally got the job?
Yes. I did, and I’m happy that way. In the beginning, I’ll work on the reconstruction of the organ at the Brisbane City Hall.
Oh, congratulations. Excellent Tomaz. Do you have anything to add?
Yes, definitely. Sincere thanks to all teachers at the school and all my classmates who adopted me as one of the older students; nine months is quite a long period of study!
Thanks again, and all the best to everyone.
I should also tell you that I passed my IELTS test, so I can apply for residency!
This is my story – come here, learn to speak English and get back my dream job.
What do you want more beautiful. In Slovenia we say: “His ax fell in the honey.”
It’s with pleasure that we welcome this week’s new students to LEXIS Brisbane. Please make them feel welcome as they join their classes and get involved in the life of the school.
Seungbae Bang (South Korea), Mingi Park (South Korea), Chien-Jung Chiu (Taiwan), Camille Winterhalter (Switzerland), Camila Cardellini (Brazil)
Welcome to this week’s new students who have just joined LEXIS Brisbane. We wish you have a wonderful time and enjoy your studies while you are staying here.
Melani Nujic (Switzerland), Min Jang (South Korea), Catia Cardoso (Switzerland), Haruko Kurita (Japan), Micheli Goulart (Brazil), Gustavo Morsoleto (Brazil)
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It’s with pleasure that we welcome this week’s new students to LEXIS Brisbane. Please make them feel welcome as they join their classes and get involved in the life of the school.
Daesung Kim (South Korea), Hong Kyoung Lee (South Korea), Daisuke Yamamoto (Japan), Michiru Yoshida (Japan)
Welcome to this week’s new students who have just joined LEXIS Brisbane. We wish you have a wonderful time and enjoy your studies while you are staying here.
Cezar Dizon (Philippines) and Hui Jeong Kang (South Korea)
It’s with pleasure that we welcome this week’s new students to LEXIS Brisbane. Please make them feel welcome as they join their classes and get involved in the life of the school.
Paschoal Midea (Brazil), Fernanda Copeleto (Brazil), Insung Her (South Korea)
Welcome to this week’s new students who have just joined LEXIS Brisbane. Although it was raining during the city tour today, students were excited with new school and new classmates. We wish you have a wonderful time and enjoy your studies while you are staying here.
Sandra Eicher (Switzerland), Samira Wahbi (Switzerland), Peter Schindler (Germany), Julien Laroye (France), Yong Hun Kang (South Korea), Sumin Lee (South Korea), Matthias Schug (Germany)
It’s with pleasure that we welcome this week’s new students to LEXIS Brisbane. Please make them feel welcome as they join their classes and get involved in the life of the school.
Kota Inoue (Japan), Estefania Nardella (Spain), Danja Maeder (Switzerland), Dongwon Choi (South Korea)
Welcome to this week’s new students who have just joined LEXIS Brisbane. We have a great mixture of different nationalities this week. We wish you have a wonderful time and enjoy your studies while you are staying here.
Stefan Schwarz (Germany), Roman Suter (Switzerland), Anne Vogt (Germany), Youmi Kim (South Korea), Younghyun Jeon (South Korea), Jozsef Fekete (Hungary), Francisco Vazquez (Spain), Laurie Trochu (France), Nicolas Eugster (Switzerland), Elina Fevrier (France), Luis Bellam (Brazil), Camila Morais (Brazil), Denise Gottert (Germany), Rebecca Rime (Switzerland), Yui Kujuro (Japan)
It’s with pleasure that we welcome this week’s new students to LEXIS Brisbane. Please make them feel welcome as they join their classes and get involved in the life of the school.
Stefan Gehrig (Switzerland), Anita Gehrig (Switzerland), Corina Deuber (Switzerland), Thomas Delechat (France), Zi-Jie Ku (Taiwan), Soyeon Jung (South Korea), Jae Haeng Kim (South Korea), Gabriel Sargi (Brazil)
Welcome to this week’s new students who have just joined LEXIS Brisbane. The students could enjoy the warm weather and beautiful city views during the city tour. We wish you have a wonderful time and enjoy your studies while you are staying here.
Alice Duchefdelaville (France), Arlette Roffler (Switzerland), Maria Moreno (Colombia), Joonbum Leem (South Korea), Dongkyoo Lim (South Korea), Fumie Otani (Japan)
It’s with pleasure that we welcome this week’s new students to LEXIS Brisbane. Please make them feel welcome as they join their classes and get involved in the life of the school.
Rebecca Gisin (Switzerland), Andrea Mueller (Switzerland), Sara Petermann (Switzerland), Woojin Jung (South Korea), Jia Wan (China), Tomoya Mizutani (Japan), Man So (Hong Kong)
On Tuesday there was an English Speaking Competition organised by English Australia (EA) and the English Speaking Union (ESU) at ESU House in Milton. There were several representative English language schools in Brisbane including universities and LEXIS English won one of the competitions.
Focusing on a group work
Soo Jeong Yang, Bianca Wong, Jonathan Vasquez
Group photo
Having fun with playing soccer
Welcome to this week’s new students who have just joined LEXIS Brisbane. We have a great mixture of different nationalities this week. We wish you have a wonderful time and enjoy your studies while you are staying here.
Viengkhnoe Saensomdy (Laos), Hyerim Jo (South Korea), Keito Isaka (Japan), Yoko Yamada (Japan), Do Yeon Lee (South Korea), Natsumi Ota (Japan), Young-Geol Bae (South Korea), Titinan Wattananurak (Thailand), Valentina Parisi (Italy), Yui Hisamoto (Japan)
Yesterday LEXIS Brisbane held a baby shower for one of our students, Maria at the student’s lounge area. Some of students, teachers and staff bought some gifts for her baby and gave her a wish for her exciting life.
Baby shower for Maria
Opening a present
Welcome to this week’s new students who have just joined GV Brisbane. We wish you have a wonderful time and enjoy your studies while you are staying here.
Sang Jun Lee (South Korea), Cecile Demaurex (Switzerland), Andres Moya (Spain), Cesar Miranda (Brazil), Heeri Moon (South Korea), Shogo Inaguma (Japan), Miku Honjo (Japan), Yeonjoo Jung (South Korea), Marina Nakamura (Japan), Masataka Suzuki (Japan), Miryoung Eom (South Korea)
It’s with pleasure that we welcome this week’s new students to GV Brisbane. Please make them feel welcome as they join their classes and get involved in the life of the school.
Vanessa Todt (Switzerland), Alexandra Todt (Switzerland), Elisa Geay (France), Ryohei Furutani (Japan), Yeison Leon (Colombia)
A big welcome to the new students who have arrived at GV Brisbane this week. We know you will have great time studying, getting to know people from all around the world and experiencing the Australian way of life!
Suzuka Matsuda (Japan), Cintia Misikami (Brazil), Jae Beom Kwon (South Korea), Paul Servanty (France), Jungbin Ha (South Korea), Fabio Conceicao (Brazil), Eliane Morais (Brazil)
Sam's team
Rafael's team
The supporters
We are pleased to announce that, from 01st September 2011, Global Village’s schools in Australia will be known Lexis | English.
This exciting new brand has been created to highlight the dynamism and energy of our schools, their unique locations and the high quality tuition, facilities and lifestyle that you enrolled for at Global Village.
You may have already seen our new logo, website, brochure, blogs, Facebook pages and Twitter feeds, which we feel reflect your student experience more closely, but other than our name and branding, nothing else has changed.
Our school are still owned, managed and operated by the same caring and supportive teams of academic and administrative staff, who continue to work hard to ensure a smooth transition from GV to Lexis | English.
We hope that you will feel as excited as we do about our new look and feel and that you will take a few moments to join the growing Lexis | English online community via the links below.
Should you have any questions about our new name and what this means for you, please do not hesitate to speak to Linda, your Director of Studies, who will be happy to tell you more about Lexis | English.
It’s with pleasure that we welcome this week’s new students to GV Brisbane. Please make them feel welcome as they join their classes and get involved in the life of the school.
Naoko Nagao (Japan), Da Young Lee (South Korea), Camila Chinen (Brazil), Nawon Yu (South Korea), Yoshie Amano (Japan), Jirina Hajkova (Czech Republic), Aya Kagoi (Japan), Yung Yi Chen (Taiwan), Joshua Schelbert (Switzerland), Ryoichi Akagawa (Japan), Yuki Sakai (Japan)
Welcome to this week’s new students who have just joined GV Brisbane. We have a great mixture of different nationalities this week and also have a first student who is from Gabon. We wish you have a wonderful time and enjoy your studies while you are staying here.
Benjamin Ugarte (Chile), Gilles Nguema (Gabon), Patrick Im (Switzerland), Min-Yi Yao (Taiwan), Alisa Wiedemann (Germany), Lucas Bonelli (Brazil), Naiara Rojas (Brazil), Fang-Kuei Wu (Taiwan), Won Seok Cho (South Korea)
Today a group of 30 GV Brisbane students caught a bus and headed up to the Mt Coot-tha lookout. The iconic Brisbane Lookout at scenic Mt. Coot-tha has been a favourite destination for locals and visitors for more than a century.
At the Mt Coot-tha Lookout
Waiting for the bus
It’s with pleasure that we welcome this week’s new students to GV Brisbane. Please make them feel welcome as they join their classes and get involved in the life of the school.
Bobby Kainikara (Germany), Song Yee Choi (South Korea), Hiroshi Amino (Japan), Eric Fan (Taiwan)
