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kiwi4 wrote:

Thanks esajh for your feedback but I have to disagree, apart from schooling I think everything else is really cheap, we are moving to KL for the experience so that my girls can view a different sort of lifestyle to the one they currently have. Life is too short and it's great to have the opportunity to be able to have different life experiences.

Hi Kiwi4

I am very certain there are pros & cons of moving to a new country to live. I would love to share this with you and anyone who intend to move to Malaysia.

My ex-boss and his family came to Malaysia (they initially worked in Sarawak and later moved to Penang). After several years here with a daughter and son who tagged along, they are all back in Canada now.

Both children had been schooled in Malaysia since teens and now they are in their college/university. The children have only good comments about their growing up in a foreign country. Their experiences are very exotic and which their friends back home will never have the opportunity to go through it, of course and their friends really envy them. Their parents enjoyed their stay here and are still keeping-in-touch with great friends made.

Look at the positive side of life and I know you will........

Welcome to Malaysia very soon!

Cheers,
Chris

Esajh wrote:

I can聮t argue with you about that Kiwi4; however, saying 聯apart from schooling I think everything else is really cheap聟聰 is tantamount to Warren Buffet saying, 聯apart from my multibillion dollar bank account I think everything else in my life is really cheap.聰   

Sure Warren drives his own station wagon, buys off the shelf suits (well use to) lives in a modest house in Omaha that does not even have a fence 聳 yet he is still the third or fourth richest man in the world. 

As for life experience, you will not find anyone that agrees with you more.  My children (11, 13, and 16) have lived on many continents.  Our goal is to not only educate them in the teachings of Hypatia of Alexandria or Kepler of Germany but of 聯All that is, and ever was, and ever will be.聰

My oldest lived with us in Central America for 3 years, after which we moved to Russia/Ukraine where all the boys lived for 4 years.  Currently we live in the Middle East for 6+ years and KL was our planned next exposure for them.

We are an 聯outside聰 family that not only scuba dives (all PADI certified) but also snow skies, races jet skis and fly airplanes (my oldest just received his PPL license as does my wife, CPL and I, ATP).  They are fluent in English, Russian and Arabic while conversational in German (and my oldest understands Spanish if spoken slowly.) 

Of course we did the Tommy Tourist things to Paris and London as well as Sidney and Washington DC.  But more importantly we spent 3 weeks following the wild dogs of the Kalahari, 10 days in Kathmandu learning from monks, 15 days with the isolated pearl farmers of Raiatea, a week with the opal miners outside Alice Springs and numerous treks from the temple of Tikal to the temple of Amun Ra Karnak - where we watch the sunrise on the winter solstice at 9:47 AM (local time) on Monday, December 21, 2009.

You will find no argument from me that life is short and experience is extremely important.  From our history you can see that my children are devoid of learning from one important region of the planet 聳 Asia.  And for that reason alone I wanted to accept the position in KL.  Asia is a hole in their planetary understanding that I do not wish to implode into a singularity.

Alas, as in all our endeavors we come to the requirements of reality and education in KL is as strong a slap in the face as a family could receive.  I do not mean to be argumentative; I am merely disappointed for I wanted to fulfill that regional void by several years in KL.

Esajh

Hi Esajh

Wow, very impressive life style for you and your family. They are lucky!!! Hope you will have the opportunity to experience Asia soon. 

Samantha72 wrote:

Hi,
I spotted that you wanted to visit TENBY International School and consider them as an option for your children. I have just pulled my children out of TENBY together with 200 other children who had left at the end of the academic year. The core senior management have no clue on how to run a school, the teachers are not qualified and the whole schooling experience leaves much to be desired. Pls pls pls don't send your children there...

Very dramatic statement, samantha72, could you please give us more information because, as I have been looking for schools for my children, I find that the school is a mixture of expatriate and local staff, and the expatriate staff certainly are degree holders with internationally recognised teaching certificates. You mention that the core senior management 'have no clue' as to how a school is run; can you elaborate on that? Do you have information on the public examination results and definite information as to your claim that 200 students left at the end of the academic year? As a potential parent I am interested in reliable information rather than sweeping statements.

sugan wrote:

My gal is starting in ELC this September too,

Sugan..are you taking your gal out of Kingsley? Tell us more about Kingsley. thanks

Chippies wrote:

Update from me...

My two girls are starting at ELC school in September. I've been to look round it twice now and am impressed with what I've seen. I'll keep you posted when they start there.