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TALKING about teaching in Beirut
Last month Alexa Hart interviewed me for her website Atlas Sliced. We talked about what it’s like living and teaching in Beirut, including how I got the job, what the benefits are, how to meet people, and of course the … Continue reading
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Tagged atlas sliced, interview, teaching, video
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Back to School
Tomorrow is the first day back to school for students which makes tonight the first official school night. Eek! Waking up early tomorrow is going to be hard. (We teachers have been back to work for over a week now, … Continue reading
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Tagged back to school, school, teaching
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How I Found My First International Teaching Job
Taking a break from the regularly scheduled travel posts . . . I bring you this article that I wrote for The International Educator (Tie Online). It’s all about how I decided to go to an international school fair and … Continue reading
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Not Quite Summer
Although we’ve passed the mid-June mark, temperatures have finally made it into the 90s on a regular basis, and I’ve been to the beach on more than one occasion, it’s not quite summer for those of us who work at … Continue reading
Posted in life in lebanon, Southeast Asia, teaching in Lebanon, Travel
Tagged planning, SEA, summer, teaching, travel, work
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The Last to Know
Last night I returned to Beirut after a lovely and relaxing triathlon weekend in Batroun to some frantic tweets from my students wanting to know if we had school the next day or not. Completely clueless I asked (or tweeted, … Continue reading
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Lebanon: It’s a Love/Hate Relationship
There are so many things to love about this country and yet an equal amount of things to drive you completely insane. Yesterday I went skiing up at Faraya and it was such a perfectly gorgeous ski day that I … Continue reading
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Tagged faraya, mountain, ski, slopes, snow, teacher's day, traffic
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Field Trip to Baalbeck
I went to Baalbeck on a field trip with my sixth graders today. It was my third time there but surprisingly many of my students had never been there before. I thought they might think it was kind of boring … Continue reading
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Tagged 6th graders, baalbeck, field trip, ruins
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“Day of Anger”
Today has been such a surreal day. I got to school at 9:15 (I start late on Tuesdays!) to find my third period English class only had nine students (half the class) present. A lot of parents kept their kids … Continue reading
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Rain!
Friday afternoon it rained. Actually, poured buckets of water from the sky seems like a more accurate description. The streets were like rushing rivers and the only thing to do was walk home from school right through the water as … Continue reading
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Things you can’t do at school when the electricity goes out for an extended period of time:
• Use the projector to display your writing questions. • Get into your email to find the writing questions you have saved as an attachment. • Make a photo copy of the one hard copy of the writing questions you … Continue reading
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