My short bio: I am a 24 year old Danishman who took a break from my master program to go as a volunteer to Ghana for 5 months. I have been teaching in diffenrent schools in different places in Ghana, mainly in Math and Science, but also occasionally in English. The youngest students were around 11 years in a merged 5th-6th grade in primary school and the oldest were older than me in high school suplementary classes. AmA
Edit: I see now that I have managed to misspell taught in the titel - my apologies
My Proof: http://imgur.com/a/xgJGH
To give a bit more info, my school in the UK has a link with the school I'm teaching at in Ghana, and whilst they've sent kids over in the past, it was only for 3 or so weeks. However I've been here almost 3 months by myself and I have ten days to go. I don't get paid, but board and food is all free and I've had numerous visits (Akosombo Dam, Bunso Arboretum) all paid for. I'm staying in a small village in the Eastern Region and it's been absolutely fascinating seeing just how different life is here, having never left Europe before.
I see a lot of negativity about "voluntourism" in this sub, am I a voluntourist? Also, will my teaching and presence at the school have/have had a negative effect on the children?
A couple weeks after donating blood, I got something in the mail from the Blood donation place saying that I not only have O-negative blood, but I also have cmv negative blood. I had no idea what that meant but it turns out that people with O-negative/CMV negative blood can donate blood to anyone (O-neg) but also cmv negative blood can be used in babies. Babies that have health conditions, or those involved in traumas can only get cmv negative blood. And apparently only about 3% of the population has this blood type. I intend to start donating regularly. But I also feel really bad because in the past I would self harm and I can’t help but think about all the blood I lost and wasted. Maybe that’s silly but it’s how I feel. Anyways, I thought it was cool and that maybe I will end up being important in some little way to someone by donating the blood that could save a life.
I am already looking for a job.
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I am looking for the best episode to play to a classroom of high school seniors who will be attending community college next year.
Themes to think about: Campus life, time management, class selections, majors or anything that would be applicable and appropriate.
Yes. I am a for real Community College professor and my family and I absolutely love the show.
Hi all,
I was wondering if anyone who is currently an English Teacher of private JHS/SHS could share their experience leading up to getting the role.
I am currently an ALT (first year) with an initial curiosity in transitioning to teaching at a private JHS/SHS in Tokyo in the future. I don't have a degree in education. I only have previous volunteer experience teaching ESL students. Should things work out (and I'm still interested in such path), I would then like to hopefully obtain a "special license".
In particular, I'm interested in knowing:
- What kind of work did you do prior to becoming an English teacher of a private school?
- Are ALTs generally able obtain these jobs?
- What can I do now to improve my chances?
I would also love to hear your story/experience in general. TIA!
Melanie Suzanne Cooley left Nederland High School, where she was a senior, on April 15, 1975. She was last seen hitchhiking in Nederland, wearing jeans, a denim jacket and tan-colored boots.
A road maintenance worker found Melanie's body on May 2, 1975 in Coal Creek Canyon. She had been hit over the head repeatedly with a large rock, her face was badly beaten, and she’d been strangled. Her hands were tied in front with a yellow nylon cord - apparently “many, many feet of it, wrapped around and around."
Melanie lived with her family in the foothills halfway between Nederland and Boulder, on Magnolia Road. She was reportedly a good student; classmates and teachers alike either loved her or had a tough time getting along with her, as Suzi would speak her mind and didn’t always follow the rules, which got her in trouble at times.
Melanie took photographs for the high school yearbook, kept score for the basketball team, and worked at Eldora Ski Resort as a valet driver. She also did macrame, painted, made jewelry, wrote poetry, played guitar and sang. She embroidered a large eagle on the back of her denim jacket (the one she was wearing when last seen).
After school Melanie often hitchhiked home with neighbors who lived along Magnolia Road, as she apparently didn’t like riding the bus. Friends saw Melanie with her thumb out near the school the day of her disappearance.
She never made it home.
While gas receipts place notorious serial killer Ted Bundy in nearby Golden, CO a few days before Melanie disappeared, authorities continue to treat her homicide as a cold case.
Circumstantial factors linking Bundy to Melanie’s murder:
- Her age and appearance are in line with his preferred victim type (high school to college age, pretty, slender, long brown hair).
- Like Debbie Kent, Lynette Culver, and Kim Leach, Melanie may have been abducted shortly after leaving school.
- Like Melissa Smith and Laura Aime, Melanie was a small-town girl apparently abducted from or near the community where she lived.
- Also like Smith and Aime, her remains were found in the open and largely intact.
- Melanie’s murder took place firmly within Ted’s "Colorado period."
- She was known to hitchhike, and was actually seen with her thumb out that day. Ted was known to pick up hitchhikers.
- Gas receipts place Ted in Golden, CO - less than an hour away - earlier that month, proving he was at least somewhat familiar with the area. Bundy lived in Salt Lake City, so this is sig
Look folks, hear me out. My parents are so fucking abusive and the never leave me the fuck alone. They constantly are screaming at me, talking about me behind my back, comparing me to others, and taking away all the things that make me happy.
Some people tell me, “Oh it’s just a fee months more of this.” I appreciate their effort but I don’t wanna live like this for another half a year. I don’t wanna feel suicidal every other day as I have for the past 3 years. I don’t wanna ruin all my relationships because of how depressed I am that my parents act like a holes.
What the hell do I do? Nothing has worked for the past 3 years. I have just had video games to distract me from wanting to kill myself and I don’t wanna live like this anymore.
Have fun with that, fellow elders.
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