I’ve been putting off writing this post for a while. I also need to write something for my personal blog, but I thought I’d tackle this one first, since I’ve officially left TLG and, by extension, this blog. I’ve been in Georgia since January, so minus two months I spent home in the summer, almost […]
December 15, 2012
I have had an almost identical conversation with four of the six co-teachers I’ve had this year. It starts with a lesson involving meals, and my co-teacher will tell the children that breakfast is in the morning, lunch is a small meal consisting of tea or coffee and maybe a biscuit or fruit, dinner is […]
September 30, 2012
I have tried on various occasions to bake in foreign countries, and it’s always a serious challenge. I plan on attempting it again this fall with pumpkin pie and pumpkin bread. In the meantime, I made something infinitely easier and which may hit the spot for some of you North Americans out there. To give […]
September 27, 2012
I recently arrived for my second semester with TLG. It turns out that last spring I’d written most of a post about things I wished I had brought with me. I thought I’d revisit it and spruce it up for publication. Hopefully it’ll help some of you who are out there who are currently working […]
September 22, 2012
I have been in Georgia now for about a month and a half, and I have already had the opportunity to use our TLG medical insurance on two separate occasions. I thought I may as well turn my misfortune into your gain and tell you a bit about being sick in Georgia. If we could […]
June 6, 2012
Now, I know this is a blog run by English language teachers, so usually when we talk about non-native speakers we mean everyone but ourselves, the native English speakers. However, in this post, the non-native speakers I want to talk about are non-native Georgian speakers, and I want to look at how these children are […]
May 28, 2012
I recently discovered another difference between the American education system and Georgia’s – the process of deciding who gets to be a teacher. To be fair, I’m still not entirely sure what qualifications a teacher needs to have to be hired by a Georgian school, but I now know that he or she (ok, usually […]
February 1, 2013
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