One thing that international teachers will want to see right way is an immediate solution to a problem and many will expect to see things run the way they do in their native country. Things may get done quickly and smoothly but that depends on the lifestyle of the people who are hosting you and the way governmental services operate. It takes time for the newcomer to adjust to the way of life in a new country and get used to peoples' habits but eventually either you accept them and move on or you allow them to nag you constantly.
When living in Europe I had to adjust to a new way of life in Italy, Poland and Italy. Italians were very curious and the people always asked me why I went there to live. I think this is so since many Italians live outside their country of origin. This helped me cope with their curiosity. But sometimes I met aggressive types that were kind of xenophobic, blaming the shortage of labor on the presence of foreign labor. I wanted to inform them that foreigners only counted for a small amount of the work force and if they wanted to get a grasp of a clear cause for discontent in there country, they should consider the downsizing of companies, which were introducing computer networking and were laying-off personnel around the globe.
Since I was contributing to the Italian need to know English as a second language I thought they should have considered that the need for some English personnel in the country far outweighed the discomfort of hosting only a relatively small portion of foreign teachers. Generally people were quite accepting all over Europe realizing that I could only help them adapt to the ever increasing need to learn English for their work or even act as an assistant at some of their schools alongside their own staff so that school kids could develop an ear for the language.
In other European countries like Poland or regions like Trieste, older people in the eighties made analogies at how Canada figured prominently during the last war and then there were others that were probably envious of the fact I had that I came from North America but I wanted to tell them that all is not glory on this side of the Atlantic and a lot of creative input comes from European talent and creativity.
