Travels
Vacation!
On vacation these days. Life is good. Plenty to blog about but right now isn’t the time, the blog isn’t dead, just in hibernation.
A Return to Studies
Once again my poor little blog suffers the pain of its negligent owner. It’s been a busy semester. I am now officially back in Grad School with a paper due at the end of May. To that end I bought a new iPad, which I’m using at this very moment to write this post. The new ...
TESOL Arabia Conference in Dubai
Right now I’m at the TESOL Arabia conference in Dubai. The conference itself has been ok, so far I’ve been to 4 workshops and a plenary (i.e. big speech given in auditorium). 1st Workshop: Empowering L2 Learners Through Technology My thoughts going in? Wow! This should be really good. I’ve been looking for ways to bring technology ...
The First of Six
My first semester teaching at college is finished! We had exams 2 weeks ago and I spent the last week doing an Instructor Skills Workshop (ISW). Overall, I’d say my first few months in middle east have been a positive experience. The School It’s definitely admin-heavy, but after getting all my HR stuff sorted out things settled ...
90 Days in the Desert…
I’ve just passed the three month mark. The adjustments to life in the GCC are nothing like I imagined. I’m up on workdays around 5 o’clock. Food and living over here are far cheaper than I imagined they would be. Even cheap-eats over here taste fairly good. So I’ve been eating out a lot. Expat culture ...
Fujisan… Part Deux
The next stop on the Japan travels, Mt Fuji. My previous trip here ended with me opening up a gash under my knee, hiking off the mountain and going to an emergency room in Tokyo. So Fuji and I had unfinished business. I caught a shinkansen train from Kyoto to Fujisan, a city at the ...