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Posted in A God Thing, Teaching on Oct 2nd, 2008
God has been very involved in my teaching. He has blessed me greatly in the ability to communicate with my students about English. He has also helped me remember to be honoring to my school and supervisors. I find working much more pleasant knowing that I am not only working for some money, but also serving God [...]
Posted in Adventures, Teaching on Aug 6th, 2007
Tonight was my first day back to teaching after having 2 weeks off during which I traveled to Japan and China. The trip was really amazing. Some of the highlites include climbing Mt. Fuji, walking on the Great Wall, and riding some camels! Earlier today I struggled with motivation to get back into teacher mode, [...]
Posted in A God Thing, Teaching on Aug 4th, 2007
I have been in Taiwan for one year already. One of the most difficult things over the past year was teaching English (especially since I have never studied teaching). The job always took a lot of energy and emotion. But it was a great experience, because God continued to show me his [...]
This weekend is Tomb Sweeping Day across Taiwan. There is no school and many public businesses are closed. During the holiday most Taiwanese spend time at their family tomb site cleaning and maintaining the area. Many also use the time to respect or worship the previous generations (called BYE-BYE, English phonetics). [...]
Yesterday and today, I have not had to teach. I am still working, but instead we are having halloween parties with the students. It is a lot of fun to play games and competitions with them for the two hours of class (but also a lot of planning). The students in Taiwan [...]
Posted in Adventures, Taiwan, Teaching on Oct 13th, 2006
This last weekend Julie, Eric and I all had a 5 day weekend off of work and language study due to Moon Festival (10/6) and their independence day (10/10). We used the long weekend to travel with the rest of our ministry team to a place called Kenting, which is a vacationing spot in the southernmost tip [...]
Posted in Teaching on Sep 5th, 2006
Well, it is true. I had my first class of my own tonight. I found out at 3:30pm that I would be teaching the class at 5pm. It is kind of just they way things work around here. It went fine. You really just have to be flexible in that kids are in and out. [...]
Posted in Teaching on Aug 21st, 2006
Tonight, I had my first official teaching experience. Over the last week Julie and I spent time meeting with different schools and interviewing. It was really good and we got a few job offers. Praise God…now we are searching for the best of the offers, mostly the school we feel most comfortable at. But tonight [...]
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