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Current thoughts (2 days, 15 hours, 34 minutes to go)
Every twenty minutes or so I’ll get a knotted feeling in my gut, reminding me that my life is going to be turned upside down in three days. The same thought keeps running through my head, and it goes something like...
5th Grade: How was your weekend?
Last week, my fifth graders learned how to describe what they did in the past. Our last lesson this unit allowed them to create their own “newspapers” about what they did this past weekend. Some kids were so creative and...
Did You Know?
“Did you know, you can quit your job, you can leave university? You aren’t legally required to have a degree, it’s a social pressure and expectation, not the law, and no one is holding a gun to your head. You...
Two Weeks Gone
Last weekend, we had our very own Thai style labor-day weekend, well, except we didn’t get the Monday off. We decided to take a group trip to hike Pala-U waterfall. It was an eventful hike consisting of me falling on...
To Find Yourself, You Must Do It Alone
I am part of an online English teacher community. It is basically a Facebook group where all of us soon to be/current teachers are able to help out one another by answering any questions that many of us may have.
Your average day at Elementary School…
If you know me at all, you know that I have never really been a huge fan of children. They’re dirty, they’re loud, they’re blunt, and they’re always getting in your face. I took a gamble on myself when I...
When the World’s Not Watching
I have been in Thailand for exactly 367 days now. Lately I count them like a kid waiting on Christmas because now I’m waiting on home. When I decided to pack my life into boxes and leave them in the...
Ça continue en France
I arrived in Paris before the first streaks of sunlight shone through dawn. I had carefully balance all three of my suitcases on the trolley before setting off to locate the welcoming crew. The idea of me living in Paris...
Easy to Say, Difficult to Prove
I saw her from a distance. I was walking along a sidewalk in Bali when I noticed the skinny and frail woman in tattered clothing sitting beside the street with a young daughter. I reached for my wallet, and as...
“The Darkest Night is Ignorance”- Buddha
It seems as though my culture shock had come quickly and left just as fast. I am finally settled into my new apartment (basically a dorm room lol) and have been teaching my wonderful kindergarten class for about a week...