Refugee Stories
Thanks to the Transatlantic Outreach Program and the Fulbright fellowship I participated in, I’ve been able to bring many lessons back to my students in […]
Refugees
- 30-Day Blogging Challenge
- Antiracism
- Beliefs
- Blogging
- Brazil
- Cambodia
- Civil Rights Trail
- Couchsurfing
- Cuba
- Digital Tools
- Equipment
- Food
- Fulbright
- Fund for Teachers
- Geography
- Germany
- Goals
- Grandparenting
- Grants
- Guatemala
- Home Exchange
- HomeExchange
- Honduras
- India
- Instructional Technology
- IT&DML Graduate Classes
- Japan
- Karen People
- Korea
- Language
- Laos
- Latin America
- Malaysia
- Mexico
- Middle East
- Nepal
- Networked Learning Project
- People
- Philippines
- Photography
- Places
- Planning
- Reading Reflections
- Reflections
- Refugees
- Religion
- Retirement
- Schools
- Shopping
- Sightseeing
- Social Studies
- Society
- South America
- Teaching
- Technology
- Thailand
- TOP Study Tour
- Transportation
- Travel Tales
- Travel Thoughts
- Travel Tips
- Uncategorized
- Vietnam
- Volunteering
- Westerly
The Living Room
Wohnzimmer It simply means living room. This is the name of a project in Fulda, a city in central Germany. We visited Wohmzimmer during our […]
A Powerful Lesson from Students
One of the privileges of participating in this TOP Tour in Germany is having access to people, places, and stories we would not ordinarily encounter […]
Finding Community
Last summer, after returning from my year abroad, I joined a memoir writing class taught by author Ethan Gilsdorf. I wrote two pieces during the […]
Mae Ra Moe: Where I'm From
This is the final post in my series about the Mae Ra Moe refugee camp where I taught for three weeks. I taught autobiographical poetry […]
Mae Ra Moe: School Life
My main focus during my three weeks at the Mae Ra Moe refugee camp was to teach English at two different schools. Education There are […]
Mae Ra Moe: The Karen People
The Karen people are an ethnic group from eastern Myanmar (Burma) and Thailand. Many live in Karen State in Myanmar. They have their own language, […]
Mae Ra Moe: Camp Life
I’ve written dozens of pages about my three weeks at the Mae Ra Moe refugee camp, thinking I would use it for a series of […]
Opportunity Knocks
There are just two months left in this year abroad, and the end seems to be coming at a fast pace. Sorry to my friends […]