Top 5 From Cities I’ve TEFL-ed In

At the end of a school year, a co-worker of mine sent out an email with her personal Top 10 of the city we’d all been working in. I’ve been around the block a few times as far as Eastern European cities go, so I won’t commit to a full Top 10, but here are my Top 5 from the cities I’ve worked in. Choose your own Top 5 or 10 and either post them as comments here or post them on your blog with a link! [Update: I've pilfered these from TEFLtastic: http://www.tefl.net/alexcase/archives/307]

Budapest

All of the bridges at night
The amazing variety of international food, yes, even including the canteen

That language. Egeszsegedre!
The easy transport system (well, easy as long as you have done everything right with your ticket)
The underground market at Nyugati Railway station

Bratislava

It’s an hour from Vienna
My Tuesday Night Club
Both western conveniences (coffee to go, Tesco that stocks tortillas) and a cute traditional old town
The Christmas Market
The nice couple I taught and socialized with

Sarajevo

The food
My little old landlady
Culture, such as the film festival and Bosnian music, which is modern and traditional at the same time, and which people do actually listen to.
Black humor in jokes, and more generally, people willing to tell jokes, sometimes about themselves.
The landscape – not only mountains, but socialist high-rises backing up to some of them, and the hills surrounding the city which light up at night with house lights.