Teaching English to Teachers (Lesson Plan: Teaching Classroom English)...sorta

A video sample of my Powerpoint presentation (I did this a while back)

I love learning languages and nothing is more painful to me than watching a language teacher, who has no facial expression, speaks with flat delivery and no vocal intonation. Painful.

 Learning a language is learning about cultural expressions, intonation, vocal pitch, gestures, facial

August Updates: Summer’s 3 Monumental Moments- Writing, Travel & Ending ESL Summer Camp!

In this issue of Shoutouts and Updates, my article "Finding Love in a Korean Love Motel" is in the August issue of Daegu Pockets. Woo hoo! But there's more than that. I'm winding up Summer English Camp with my final impressions and looking forward to my second GRRRL TRAVELER solo trip... to Vietnam! (click on the title bar above for this post)

GRRRL Goes Whimpery in Her New Korean Location

How do you take a bath in Korea?  Let me tell you how I just did it.  I washed over my sink and shaved my legs by propping them up on my toilet lid.  Yes, a toilet lid can have more uses than just one when you’re in an efficient country like Korea…

My Korean bathroom (sink/toilet/shower compressed in the same room) is smaller than my NYC apt bathroom

But all smart-assing aside…  You haven’t heard peep from me in a while as I’ve been in an intense transition, which just hit rocky; and the “rocky” is something I’m working through. I’ll fast-forward over my escape from the draft of flu, my partial hearing loss due to airplane travel with a cold and my