Adventure and Cultural Travel with a Sustainable Twist
Goodbyes are never pleasant, and to be honest I’ve been putting off writing this post for a while because I just couldn’t handle it emotionally. Just editing these photos brought me to tears. English exams As I’d been teaching English for 5 months (an unprecedented amount of time for Continue Reading
Little victories in school (The school year has now ended, so I’m looking back on my 5-month teaching stint with the benefit of some hindsight.) The first and second graders were my most challenging class, because the first graders can’t really read or write. A previous volunteer very helpfully left flashcards Continue Reading
Teaching After the one-week school vacation, I went back to teaching. It’s great that I have a lot of support from Profesora Blanca, the regular teacher. She wants the kids to take English classes more seriously and stop treating it like a vacation, so she told me to give them Continue Reading
With roughly 3 weeks of teaching here under my belt, friends have been asking how it’s going. It’s hard to answer in a few lines over Whatsapp (and I really prefer typing with an actual keyboard), so I hope this (1000+ words) post adds some flavour! The primary school has 27 kids Continue Reading