Lauren Walters

Review of Greenheart Travel

Greenheart are a fantastic company for supporting ...

Greenheart are a fantastic company for supporting you from the moment you enrol on to one of their programmes. Upon landing in Bangkok, I was immediately put at ease when I was picked up from the airport and taken to my hotel. I then spent the next week with other new teachers having help to manage applications for teaching jobs filled in and participate in wonderful activities such as trips to temples, an Artists village, Rescue Paws dog sanctuary, beach BBQ's, muai thai lessons and visiting an elephant sanctuary and a pineapple farm. I felt 100% supported by greenheart staff to get a teaching job, although flexibility on this front was required on my part as this changed once or twice before it was finalised. as well as emotionally and academically supported for the rest of my time in Thailand. They also were a massive help with all the boring stuff like VISA, documentation, getting a Thai bank account and a Thai SIM card, all of which would have been very difficult to do alone. Greenheart helped me find a job in a school and a learning centre in Ayutthaya, a beautiful historic town, the learning centre was fantastic, wonderfully organised and gave me a variety of students in terms of age and requirements. The school was less organised however, and I had some trouble here with lessons, student punctuality and discipline, however, I felt i could call upon Greenheart should I encounter any problems. I found the culture, teaching and language lessons provided by Greenheart at the beginning very helpful, as well insightful and fun! I had a wonderful placement and a perfect place to live, and still keep in touch now with some of the fellow teacher I met there. Working with Greenheart as a fantastic experience, so much so that I decided to use them again in 2018 for a home stay programme. Of course it would be nice if the programme was a little more affordable for everyone, although I did make plenty of money once I was out there. I also got discount for my next programme, which was a homestay in China.