Gotoco teaching in Poland

I had a wonderful time teaching English as a Foreign Language with Gotoco in Poland! I taught English for three weeks in Poland through the company Angloville, and then went on Gotoco's 'cultural tour' of Warsaw and Krakow. Angloville provides paid 2-9-day 'cultural immersion' camps to for children and adults to practise speaking English in Poland and a range of other countries. I was on three 'junior' week-long summer programmes at the same venue in August 2022, which meant I was working with children aged 11-16. The days consisted of conversation sessions (40-minute conversations between two participants and one native speaker), presentation sessions (when 1-3 participants per native speaker developed a speaking presentation on a topic of their choice to be presented at the end of the week), games, challenges, art workshops and speaking to the participants in English at other times such as at mealtimes. The Angloville programmes were intense, with scheduled activities from 9am-9pm, but there were plenty of breaks within this, and the 'gamified' English-speaking format helped ease the exhaustion. If I hadn't done Angloville through Gotoco (who pay travel costs), I think I would have resented having to pay travel costs to volunteer on quite such an intense schedule. I found the teaching element lots of fun but slightly too repetitive by the end of three weeks at the same place. I really enjoyed the subsequent cultural tour, highlights being a Chopin concert in a park in Warsaw, walking tours in both cities, the night market in Warsaw and the salt mines and Jewish quarter in Krakow. Food, accommodation and travel costs were covered for the duration of the trip, a feature that sets Gotoco apart from many companies which offer TEFL opportunities. Gotoco provides a great chance to meet new people, a cheap way to travel, teaching experience and a good first taste of solo travel. I've made some close friends, developed my professional skills and experience, and had a wonderful time teaching and travelling through Gotoco.