April
25
/ 2011
Culture Worthy of Your Calendar: The Sound of Music – In So Many Ways! by Josh Garrick
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My daughter works for a wildlife rescue centre in Thailand and recently, she came home on a whirlwind visit to pick up veterinary supplies to take back to an animal hospital in Petchaburi. While she was here she reminded me of the time I visited her at the centre, some months ago.
After sleeping under the stars with snoring teens in
April
23
/ 2011
April
22
/ 2011
As world travelers, we're ALWAYS looking for great luggage! I've found a fantastic resource for hundreds of luggage brands - Kolobags.
April
22
/ 2011
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.
April
21
/ 2011
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.
April
20
/ 2011
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