Blogroll: Loving and Letting Go
If I haven’t made this clear recently, let me do so now: I LOVE my life. I love it exactly as it is right now. I have an incredible job with students who bring laughter to my heart and provoke new avenues of research/interest in my mind. No matter the weather, the attitudes (mine or others’), or the relative (un)eventfulness, a day that I teach is never truly dull. I work with wonderful people who treat me like a colleague despite the fact that most of them are old enough to be my parent, and I am treated both at school and in society in general with a level of respect that, sadly, few American educators can aspire to despite any true differentiation between myself and them.
Blogroll: The Beginning of the End
Two weeks from today I will be on a plane on my way back to the States. I must admit, there were times during this year when I thought that day couldn’t come fast enough. There were times when I was homesick, and lonely, and struggling to understand this totally upside-down culture. And all I wanted was to go back to my momma’s house, curl under the covers, and be a kid again. Growing up is hard. Living abroad is hard.
Blogroll: (Danielle Teacher’s) Korean Students Speak
From a young age, Korean students are trained to memorize mountains of information with the hope of attending a prestigious university one day. In this strict, regimented education system, there is little room for creative thought or personal expression. Last fall, some of my peers sought to address this very issue by creating an online project called “Korean Students Speak”. The premise of this project is simple. With a marker and blank piece of paper, students can creatively voice their opinion to the world.