After spending time on Sunday in the beach town of White Rock, Monday was our day to explore North Vancouver. North Vancouver is a separate city from Vancouver. People often refer to it as the North Shore since it is on the north side of Vancouver Harbor. It is also right next to the mountains so there are a number of activities related to the outdoors here as well. We split our day into two parts. For the first part…
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Last week I began sharing about my experience teaching English in a summer program in South Korea in 2006. The school was located near Seoul. I traveled there with some other American teachers. While we enjoyed working with our students, working with the administration had its challenges. One of the positive things for me at the school was their technology. I was teaching in a private school at that time, and our technology was not at a very high level.…
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One of my first posts was entitled “Why Travel?” I listed four reasons for traveling, but of course there are more reasons than that. One such reason is to travel to actually work. Businesses have often sent their workers to various locations to offer face to face contact with clients. In my case I traveled to do what I do best, teach. The location was South Korea. In 2006 recruiters came to the school where I was teaching with an…
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