I just finished reading Beyond the Sky and Earth a few days ago. It was a great travel narrative and I highly recommend it. The author Jamie Zeppa is 23 when she travels to Bhutan to teach English. The story chronicles her three year stay in the country. She starts out teaching children in a [...]
alt : The US vs. John Lennon Trailer I watched two documentaries recently, “The US vs. John Lennon” & “Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride: Hunter S. Thompson on Film”. Both were decent films, however the Hunter S. Thompson film was a bit shaky and had some problems, in my opinion of course. Maybe that’s [...]
Well, I sent off my first job application today. It was for a university job at Chonnam National University in Yeosu. I didn’t have as much time as I would have liked to prepare before the deadline. I guess we’ll see if I get a call. I’ll be researching and sending more off over the [...]
A buttefly shot at Phipps Conservatory in Pittsburgh. Black & white channel conversion with sepia toning in photoshop. It’s been a while since my last update. Things have been ok lately. Finished off the last of the TEFL requirements and the deep research and job hunting has started. It’s a bit overwhelming and mind numbing [...]
A picture of our LADO TEFL group on the last day of class. The last week of training went quickly. The last two teaching days on Monday and Tuesday went well overall. I felt much more comfortable preparing materials and working through the lesson in my mind. The class always turns out differently than what [...]
Week three ended this Friday with a successful speaking lesson with the lower intermediate group. As the students get more comfortable with each other and each of us as teachers, their personalities and abilities truely come out. It is a nice feeling to know that you are helping them speak and make progress on their [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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