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May 26, 202110 min read
Deja Vu
It’s been almost a month since I last wrote a post and like always a lot has changed. However, not all the change was for the best this...
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May 6, 202118 min read
Working Hard and Hardly Working
With the end of the school year insight I don’t like to waste a weekend with nothing to do. I have lots of locations and activities still...
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Apr 13, 202113 min read
Staying Busy
From scuba to square dance it seems like the past month I’ve covered it all. Following my pool scuba class where I learned how to put...
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Mar 23, 202110 min read
Transition Almost Complete
The end of Winter break marked the beginning of my last semester as a teacher. I have to say that although I don’t think my calling is to...
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Jan 29, 202110 min read
Final Wrap Up
Fulbright tries to support us as much as possible so that when we enter the classroom we know how to help and what we can do to aid the...
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Dec 28, 202013 min read
Holiday Cheer
We have now passed the month of holiday cheer, the month that last year was accompanied by a level of homesickness that went unmatched. I...
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Dec 18, 20209 min read
The Good in the Bad
Some of the skills that have become more developed this semester has been my ability to roll with the punches, to stay on my toes at all...
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Oct 18, 20207 min read
Video Proposal
Sometimes I worry that by accepting my Fulbright grant the first, and also the second time, that I have pushed my dream of going into...
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Oct 10, 20207 min read
Learning New Skills and Perfecting Old
A second year in Taiwan has helped me learn about myself and learn more about others around me.
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Sep 21, 20207 min read
A Smashing Success
This time last year I was always so confused and unsure of what I should be doing. I hadn’t known my place at my school and was always...
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Sep 4, 20207 min read
The first of many
It started. After a couple weeks of quarantine, a month of orientation and teacher re-training we started school. I would’ve been...
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Aug 27, 202010 min read
Let the Presentations and Teaching Commence
All of last week was gearing up for the all ETA conference in Taipei at the end of the week. It was the first time we would all ~35 ETAs...
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Mar 30, 202014 min read
The Email that changed it all
Sadly, my time in Taiwan has come to an end too fast. Despite having 3 months left teaching and 4 months left on my visa, Fulbright has...
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Mar 3, 202015 min read
School Continues
School has begun again and it feels almost like the first day again. I was so nervous to see how things changed and was completely in the...
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Feb 3, 20207 min read
Last Week till Freedom
*A little late to post, but I'll post it anyways It has been the last week of classes and then I get a three-week vacation where I plan...
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Jan 6, 20208 min read
Starting 2020 off Right
Learning calligraphy, watching the fireworks off Taipei 101, and climbing a volcano. That has been how I started 2020. Not a bad start to...
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Dec 29, 201917 min read
Halfway There
Its New Years. The time to make a New Year’s Resolution that I keep for a month and then slowly forget about. More importantly, New...
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Dec 11, 20196 min read
Almost a Professional Photographer
I am at 崁頂國小to teach English, and yet I found myself at a county level singing competition this Tuesday as 崁頂國小’s photographer. I had...
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Dec 4, 20198 min read
Culture Class
Every day I have seen and looked at红石山 towering over my house in Guanshan. It’s a huge mountain compared to the small hills I am used to...
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Nov 19, 20195 min read
Highs and Lows
I have started to get in a routine of sorts which has made living here pretty nice and relaxing for the most part with my teaching...
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