All Entries Tagged With: "ESL teaching"

A Holiday for ME!

It’s nice to know that other places around the world invent holidays for the flower industry. I have just experienced my first Teacher’s Day in Vietnam! November 20th is a major holiday here in Vietnam; Teacher’s Day. Granted – you don’t get the day off of work, but it is well celebrated. In fact, it’s [...]

I Will Survive

Let’s take inventory. I’ve been in Saigon for two months now. It’s honestly been good and bad. Maybe bad is the wrong word…it’s more like “challenging”. Considering I’m a challenge junkie, one would think that I could have rolled with all of this massive change in my life a bit better, but alas…I am human.
I [...]

Bringing Home the Bacon

 
There’s a reason it’s called Work.
Work is still work. After two years of being out of work, my mini retirement has ended for a while. There’s a part of me that is happy that I have a place to settle for a bit, however there’s a larger part of me that would rather stay unemployed [...]

Hands for Help - Final Thoughts

Dhal Bhat Days – vol13
9/15/08
While in Nepal I heard from my old students in India; they wished me a happy teacher day via email; it took me completely off guard, and shook me up a bit . It had been a year ago that I was there living in Delhi teaching my wonderful group of young [...]

School Days

Dhal Bhat Days – Vol. 8
9/8/08

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The whole reason I came to Nepal was to volunteer and teach. In some way I was trying to recapture my rewarding experience that I had in [...]

Spice Diaries – Vol 12 - Sep. 6, 2007

No more pencils, no more books, no more teacher’s dirty looks…
Over the past year I have had many reasons to smile. Yet today was probably one of the most memorable reasons to smile this entire year of adventure and work free lifestyle. The strangest thing is that this smile spreads across my face uncontrollably and [...]