TEACHER TIME: WORLD EDITION

Every teacher I have ever met has had daunting stories of their first years of teaching. Everything is new. There are lesson plans to...

If you happened to talk to me during the planning of our trip to Thailand, you undoubtably heard me bursting with excitement at the...

When we originally planned our move to Bangkok, one of the many reasons we decided to come was that Thailand was among the top countries...

After one short week of quarantine freedom, our spring break arrived, and with it, never-ending opportunities for how we would spend our...

As the title suggests, we did not feel fully capable of answering that question for the first two weeks that we were in the country,...

The last time we checked in, we were waiting for our flight to Tokyo in the international terminal of LAX. We've been on quite the...

As we sit at the airport waiting for our flight to Bangkok to start boarding, we have had some time to reflect on the many months that...

As we are approaching the one year anniversary of coronavirus being considered a global pandemic, everyone has found themselves walking...

Back before graduating college in June, whenever I told anyone that I was majoring in English, they would imminently ask me, “Oh, so you...

At least in the teaching and distance learning world, these words “synchronous” and “asynchronous” get thrown around a lot. Most people...

If you have read our first blog post "First Stop: Coronavirus" (and I highly recommend that you do) you would know that Nolan and I had...

The reason that I got into teaching was because I wanted to positively affect the lives of the young people in our community so that they...

Zoom teaching has its challenges for any age group. Attention spans, learning environments, and general stresses about being at home...

Now, being a first time teacher comes with many challenges. Learning how to lesson plan, engage students, and create a supportive...