Jamesibasco
2/22/2012 04:08 EST
Hello Everyone,
Laba Diena!
I got married to a lithuanian girl 4 years now, we were living in the UK for 3 1/2 years and decided to give lithuania a try.
I originally from Philippines, far east asia, me and my wife got married in the UK, and had a daughter. She wanted to try the life in LT for our family. Her family is very supportive, she lives in a town called lekeciai, were people are friendly, curious and polite (most of the time).
At the moment, I speak very common lithuanian phrases, I can catch up with some words but too shy to reply back and I do really need some learning to do.
There are a lot of similarities from my own culture in Lithuania, mostly 90% in my country, the religion os catholic, we also love basketball, we take care of our elderly and many other things. But even if so, Im still worried of what kind of life waits for me here.
There is no job opportunities here in lekeciai, im not sure about kaunas but most of my lithuanian friends from UK told me that I have more chances in Vilnius. Is this true??
Also, I am really looking forward to meet with new friends here in Lithuania, either Lithuanian nationals or foreigners.
Please advice and sorry for my long topic...
Aciu
James Ibasco
email: james_ibasco@yahoo.com
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richard9567
3/30/2012 02:14 EST
HI Jamie,
Like you, I'm an expat australian living here. I've lived in klaipeda for almost two years and it's a fantastic place. However, there are plenty of things to be aware of.
1) unfortunately, racism is very strong here and as you're from the phillipines and therefore are asian in apprearance, you'll be automatically marked, the fact that you're catholic and have a lot of cultural similarities is good, but many people from the smaller villiages wont even give you the chance to speak before labelling you. It takes a lot of time to build up trust here but, once you have, you have an automatically exyended family :-)
2) at some point you'll need a pazyma or authorisation to stay,....the govt here don't understand that they're here to serve you, they believe it's the other way around. One way to get over this, is when you manage to make an appointment, take a small gift with you to say thankyou for them seeing you at short notice ;-)
3)be aware of the drivers here......for some reason ( and even lithuanians say this ) as soon as you put a lithuanian behind the wheel of a car, he seems to think that he's schumacher and forgets that other people are using the road as well.
4)know that coming from the UK you will be seen as having more money than normal here.......if you go out to a club or something, ( until you're known) expect to pay tourist prices and/or, for mistakes to be made on your bill.
5) lastlly, when you get here, take some lithuanian lessons, the differnece it makes when you speak their language is profound.
Good luck and if you want anymore advice, I can be contacted on englishunlimited.lt@gmail.com
Cheers
Richard
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richard9567
3/30/2012 02:14 EST
HI Jamie,
Like you, I'm an expat australian living here. I've lived in klaipeda for almost two years and it's a fantastic place. However, there are plenty of things to be aware of.
1) unfortunately, racism is very strong here and as you're from the phillipines and therefore are asian in apprearance, you'll be automatically marked, the fact that you're catholic and have a lot of cultural similarities is good, but many people from the smaller villiages wont even give you the chance to speak before labelling you. It takes a lot of time to build up trust here but, once you have, you have an automatically exyended family :-)
2) at some point you'll need a pazyma or authorisation to stay,....the govt here don't understand that they're here to serve you, they believe it's the other way around. One way to get over this, is when you manage to make an appointment, take a small gift with you to say thankyou for them seeing you at short notice ;-)
3)be aware of the drivers here......for some reason ( and even lithuanians say this ) as soon as you put a lithuanian behind the wheel of a car, he seems to think that he's schumacher and forgets that other people are using the road as well.
4)know that coming from the UK you will be seen as having more money than normal here.......if you go out to a club or something, ( until you're known) expect to pay tourist prices and/or, for mistakes to be made on your bill.
5) lastlly, when you get here, take some lithuanian lessons, the differnece it makes when you speak their language is profound.
Good luck and if you want anymore advice, I can be contacted on englishunlimited.lt@gmail.com
Cheers
Richard
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Mikas
4/23/2012 12:35 EST
True, without knowing Lithuanian language, it will be near impossible to get a job, unless you know Russian.
DON'T bring a gift to migracija! You will be in a big room in front of many people, everyone will be able to see what you are doing, and even hear you if they listen. If you are going to end up giving a "gift" to anyone that works there, it will be through someone else, and you will NEVER see the recipient, although you might get service.. kind of a "friend of a friend" network.
Also, migracija is actually part of the police, and you will already be at the police station!
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Mikas
8/8/2012 10:02 EST
I was at Migracija three times in the last year, and I know people that work there. About the job info.... I have family working at Darbo Birzas.
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nigeldeo
10/5/2012 01:20 EST
hi everyone, I live in west lithiania, jurbarkas on the kalingrad border. I work as a consultant, my wife teaches lithuanian, english and russian with degrees in both. If you need any help or advice please feel free to contact me. this is a great place to live it just takes time to learn characteristics.
aciu
nigeldeo@gmail.com
jurbarlas
LT
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