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Tuesday, October 24th, 2006
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TEFL Training in Surabaya
It began in 2007.
We’ve been working with TEFL International to maintain a training center in Surabaya. Our first trainees were a mix of foreign and local students.
It’s a pattern that has repeated though each course that followed. We train local(Indonesian) teachers and foreign teachers.
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Wednesday, February 1st, 2006
I’m afraid it looks grim for our hero … the blender’s on puree
[read on]
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Thursday, January 5th, 2006
There have been a few changes at work in the last few months.
We've managed to weather the storm.
We'll be moving on at the end of this month.
We'll be in Indonesia, but haven't chosen which city to stay in. ...
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Monday, December 12th, 2005
2005?
2005?
Are you kidding?
Signing for a third year. We had personnel changes. Some finished their contracts, and some left unexpectedly.
Our son Wyatt turned one and is zooming towards his second birthday
Didn't we just start this year?
It seems to have gone a ...
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Saturday, October 1st, 2005
Pandas and pedicabs
Pandas and pedicabs
We visited Chengdu last week
A holiday before the holiday
I took a few days so I could spend time with my wife and son and visit a friend
Steve, who taught with me in Jinzhou and Changsha, is ...
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Thursday, May 26th, 2005
We went shopping today
Robert had a great need to see the traditional market and I had a great need to test-drive the new camera
Wyatt had other needs ...
Emily coaxed me into joining her at the market
I had prepared to veg ...
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Monday, April 18th, 2005
We talked about what was possible,doable and useful.
Should I fly to Canada?
Mom had died.
I had suspected as much after the first cryptic email. Or, to be more precise, I had an inkling of this after the first email and the ...
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Wednesday, April 6th, 2005
The day dawns inappropriately bright. Snow covers the ground and the way is icy.
We arrive at the church
I had not seen my mom in five years and this was not the way I'd wanted to see her again
She lay there ...
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Monday, February 28th, 2005
I still think of the old days occasionally. There were, thankfully, more good times than bad times. I realize that's almost an
Edie Brickell song.
The Old Days There have been a few changes ...
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Saturday, February 26th, 2005
After the Winter Course 2005
We'd just finished winter course and had some travel arranged ... we took off for Hainan. Hainan is in the south of China. Actually a tropical island. ... [Continue reading this entry] Posted in About Me, Alumni, At the office, Bali, Before the PRC, Certification, Changsha, China, customer service, ESL, Family, fitness, futility, gap-year, Hainan, Hunan, Indonesia, Java, Life outside of work, Living the dream, overseas living, tefl, tesol, Tesol certification, Top Ten list, Travel, tropics, vacation | 14 Comments »
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