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Monthly Archives: July 2007

30 Jul

Weekend Family Gathering

My family back together again. This weekend my parents came down from Pennsylvania to visit us in Annapolis at my brother’s house. It has been a long while since we have done this sort of thing. So it was nice to get everyone together. I wish we had more time to spend with them, but [...]

29 Jul

LADO TEFL Journal – Week 2

Tanya, Natalia, Christina & Adriana. My first ESL students. Well, I made it, the half way point. I’m not really sure what to say about how I feel. The work load is still very challenging, I’m not sure that I really have it comfortably under control. I can say that I feel very at ease [...]

28 Jul

More TEFL Tales

This is a picture of Nancy and I at TJ’s apartment in Washington DC. It was taken mid-week. We were all working on our lesson plans for the next day of teaching. We look happy, but we were all VERY tired! hahaha… We ended up staying up until like 1-2 am working. The class the [...]

22 Jul

Teaching Journal – Week 1

Tomorrow starts my second week of TEFL teacher training at LADO. To be honest, I was surprised at the degree of difficulty the class has offered up. Maybe it’s because I haven’t been a student in many years, I’m not sure yet. But the first two days were absolute hell for me. It wasn’t fun, [...]

21 Jul

We survived the first week!

ok, so it’s now 12:46am and i just got home from washington dc. we went out to a bar on the georgetown waterfront after finishing our first week of TEFL training. we went out with our classmates, all except for Rhonda, she wanted to get home early. and i understand why! the first week of [...]

08 Jul

yeah yeah…

i know it’s been ages since i updated this blog… i’ve been busy. i’m still in philadelphia at the moment. things are going well and i’ve been getting out and about quite a bit. i hope to have some pics up soon from some of the latest adventures, but not at the moment… i logged [...]

01 Jul

Philly work space

ok, so a quick post that illustrates my Philadelphia work space. i think this one looks the most stylish so far somehow. The printer came from nancy’s parents. we went to the mac store to buy them a new imac! yay! my brainwashing worked. anyway, when you bought a new computer you got a brand [...]