Haphazard Beauty
When I started writing this post, I was certain that someone famous had said something famous about life being like a mosaic, with all...
Success is...
The curriculum that I teach is set up so that each lesson works to answer a question. There is one question that the students try to...
No, I'm done!
I think it finally hit me - the reason why I haven't been able to write blog posts since I got to Korea - I'm too tired. The words don't...
Well, that's my life.
In my six year old classes, we are learning about trees. Right now, we are focusing on the parts of a tree. But earlier in the semester,...
Pimento
Somewhere around the 3 month mark of this newest adventure, I stumbled upon Pimento. Well, at that point he wasn't Pimento (and I didn't...
Rose-colored glasses
Sometimes, when I'm bored, I go back through my blog posts. I look at the pictures, I reread the stories (/correct some of the grammar...
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times."
As the first day of school gets closer, and the fact that I won’t be in China when it gets here becomes more and more real, I’ve been...
"Teacherrrrrrrrrrrr"
“This is an apple tree, tree. Not a me, Tree, tree.” At my desk, I have a bunch of pictures that students have given me over this year....
"I don't really know where we are...but it's very pretty!"
Carly and I have a few games that we like to play when we are bored: the word association game, the name everything you would eat if you...
Dear China,
Over the course of my 22 years and your many,-many-more-than-22-years, we have spent a total of 14 months together – and they have been...