Gathering my thoughts to write about my experiences of the last three months here in Thai Binh is going to be a bit like herding cats, I’m afraid. My memory of it is a jumbled, frantic mess. I wish I’d taken more notes about my teaching experiences, but honestly, who had time? Usually after a long day of classes I’d be so exhausted I’d just … Continue reading Coming up for air……
Starting a new job is almost always at least a bit stressful, yes? There are so many things to learn: procedures and rules, getting to know all the new people and trying to remember their names (let alone trying to pronounce them correctly), actually performing the job….you know, learning the ropes. I’d taken an online ‘TEFL’ course while I was still in Chico as preparation … Continue reading Future tense perfect past progressive
Busy, busy, busy….. Since I last wrote, I’ve moved from Hanoi to Thai Binh. I’ve settled into my small yet sufficient room. I’ve taught one class so far. ….and I’ve been struggling with either another cold or just remnants of gunk left in my lungs from Hanoi. With cleaner air here in Thai Binh, I’m hoping that’ll clear up soon. The class I taught was … Continue reading Ho hum…..
The day after I’d been out to that one-day job (and got home at midnight), I had a commitment to take a bus to Thai Binh, which is where my new job is. I’d learned the buses leave about every half hour and decided to take the noon bus, so at 11:30 I grabbed a taxi. I’d got the bus station address off the internet. … Continue reading Have I mentioned….?
Two days ago I had a one day job in a small city 2 hours outside of Hanoi. In this job I was to stand around, smile, look Anglo-Saxon and speak English. No, really. Luckily for them, they’d hired a professional….I can do that stuff with my eyes closed. I was picked up by the administrator…..or something…of the school. We also stopped and picked up … Continue reading Job Posting – Native English Speaker for talking
I had written (yet another) post on being stressed about things, but I trashed it because I thought, “Who am I to be feeling down? I’m traveling! I’m in Vietnam for crying out loud – how cool is that?” At the same time….I’m human and I still have my down days. I wrote about growing pains….and that I still have a lot of growing up … Continue reading D-oh! We had it backwards……
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