Let go of the past and live for today.

Today I spent a couple hours writing this blog. And shed a few tears while doing so. This is more for myself than for anyone else. But it is necessary, for me, to do this.

I have a couple new students, a father and son, and the father says he will be asking me to add another hour per week to work with his twin sons. And a student that will be with me for 3 months only, but in that time she will be doing 10 hours per week of lessons.

Today, May 31, marks 2 years in Colombia, 2 years in Barranquilla. What has this experience been like so far? Is this new life what I expected? If not, how is it different from what I expected?

Before I came here, when I was just going through the TEFL courses to get certified as an EFL teacher, I had no expectations. I had no idea what to expect from a life in a different country, doing a job I had no experience doing.

As mentioned in the title - coffee and salt don't mix. hehehehe. So, here's what happened - I was getting very low on sugar, so I went to the tienda to buy some. I'm at the store and I walk through the aisle, see the bags of white stuff, assume it's sugar, grab it and buy it. I never bothered to check the print on the package. After I got home I then poured the stuff into the sugar canister, which had some sugar left in it.

Things are going well here. My teaching schedule is filling up. And it looks like I will have even more students starting in the next week or two. So, for those of you who pray, pray about this: 3-5 new students possibly starting in the next week or two, all in the same business office, one other new student who operates a brand new panaderia just around the corner from me (I talked to him just last night), and the wife of my newest student.

Thursday, 26 February 2015 Teaching English and El Día de Amor y Amistad

Have you ever stopped and given thought to the letter 'u'? Probably not. Why would you? It's just a vowel. Nothing special. But I discovered that the letter 'u' has many sounds, not just what we think of as the traditional "long" and "short" sounds.

Some words to consider: