Teaching English as a Foreign Language is often both rewarding and frustrating, for the teacher and the students. Some days the learning can go so well, with key learning points being embedded and easily recalled by students. On these days the atmosphere is high and the engagement even higher! Yet in other days, the activities…
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Refugee Youth Symposium: 2nd June 2019
In June, Dan and I were fortunate enough to attend an event in Tokyo, held by World Vision Japan. The focus of the event was looking at the global refugee situation and how individuals, specifically the youth, can get more involved in spreading awareness of refugee issues. The most significant take aways from the conversation…
Part 2 (Of Lessons Learnt Living Abroad)
2. You can learn a lot. I love learning. In fact, I would go so far as to say I am a learning addict. Every day I fly through information on a quest to learn a little more. It is this insatiable drive that perhaps makes me Jack: “A jack of all trades is a…
Six Lessons I’ve Learnt Living Abroad: Part 1
My current job as an Assistant Language Teacher (ALT) on the JET programme is coming to an end this July. As it is only May, July is still a few months away. Still, I had to make the decision on whether I would recontact for 2019 in December 2017, so leaving our home in Shimonoseki…
Deer Self(ie)
Deer Self(ie), I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate you on your recent successes. To name a few, you are travelling parts of Japan you had never even heard of until your move here just less than four months ago. You are embracing the culture and studying the language. You challenge and ask…