After sleeping under the stars with snoring teens in
As world travelers, we're ALWAYS looking for great luggage! I've found a fantastic resource for hundreds of luggage brands - Kolobags.
Do you long to be a long-term nomad? It's a life that calls, like the Sirens, to all of us. Yet how many actually DO it, become long-term travelers, exploring the world (and ourselves)? I've long been following one global nomad, Angela Corrias, of Chasing the Unexpected.
Though it is peacetime, the people of Northern Ireland had another sectarian death to mourn recently: that of a 25-year-old PSNI constable named Ronan Kerr, murdered in early April in Omagh by a bomb attached to his car by the Real IRA.
I used to dread writing assignments. As a high school student, and even into college, my pre-conceived associations with writing tasks – boredom, time consumption, lack of relativity to everyday life – always seemed to ruin the assignment before it had a chance to breathe. For ESL students, the task of writing in a different language only adds to the challenge. Here are two pre-assignment tips to motivate students to write, and to write well.
Warmer: Making the topic relevant, familiar and interesting
A foreign teacher in China reflects about the 2008 news and calamities.
Good Morning, Thomas!.[1]
This morning when I wakened,
And saw the clouds above,