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Mexico City Road Hockey

Thursday, January 11th, 2007

TEFL hockey

Several years ago, I got it into my head that it would be scads of fun to play road or ice hockey in Mexico City. I’d hoped that there would be some interest on the part of kids here to learn a new sport they weren’t familiar with. Mostly, I’d probably hoped somehow to recreate my own childhood (and to be honest, much of my adulthood) in Canada where the boys would get together every Sunday to play out in a vacant parking lot. Spring, summer, winter, fall and in any weather, we used to grab the sticks and a ball and play all day.

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Cultural Exchanges

Wednesday, January 10th, 2007

Package

I posted a story on Dave’s ESL Cafe about an interesting package I received in the mail the other day.

An unexpected package arrived at the school today. It didn’t blow up after a little shake, so I opened it.

Three school kids from a Midwest US school sent us a ‘Welcome to Our Culture’ pack. In the package were two US flags, a fuzzy soft football, as well as cutout pictures of cows, a dictionary, a map of the US, and of Hindu god Shiva. There was also a CD by Dirks Bentley, a video cassette of ‘an old cowboy movie’ called ‘The Sacketts’, and a two page note explaining their project.

Here is a picture of what they’d sent.

Teachers Latin America

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TEFL – Teaching About Culture…But How Much?

Tuesday, January 9th, 2007
A debate has developed over on one of my favorite EFL employment discussion forums, regarding how far one should go when bringing the idea of cultural points of view into the EFL classroom in foreign countries. The debate is ... [Continue reading this entry]