Month: March 2011

We’re going kayaking! Now I know how much you all love every waking minute of your teaching jobs: those classes you just can’t get through without caffeine, the naughty kids, the piles of homework, the feeling that you might not actually be a teacher at all but a performing monkey/children’s TV presenter. (Ok, maybe the…
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Have Salsa Fever?  Thursday Night at Dunsung Dong Downtown area at Noche de Salsa (Night of Salsa) is where you need to be. There are dancers of all levels and different styles. You want to get in at 9pm because the place quickly fills up and the crowd takes over the whole floor. There are…
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After a week of non-stop rain, wind and generally miserable weather, I wasn’t expecting a great turn out for our day trip to Jiufen on Sunday. However, as you can see from the photos, I needn’t have worried. I had blue skies, glorious sunshine and plenty of great company! Seventeen of us met in Taipei…
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The classroom tips below are general in nature and are intended to be more of a navigational tool than anything else. As it is virtually impossible to account for every possible teaching style and method, think of these classroom tips for English teachers abroad as best practices.