Join me as I try to meet the challenge of travelling to 30 countries before my 30th birthday
Happy Earth Day. Take the time today and do something to help our planet. Yesterday, one of the teachers at the school where I work arranged for the students to take part in a beach clean up for Earth Day. We removed bags of garbage as well as bicycles and other large metal pieces. There …
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Photo Challenge: Names On the Northwest Coast of Canada there are hundreds of languages that are being lost or have already been lost. In my small slice of the world people are working hard with elders to record as much of the language as possible, high schools and colleges are offering courses to teach young …
Happy New Year - My resolution is to try to post once a week on the blog. I am bad about forming habits like posting, I often get busy or distracted. I never did let people know the results of the job posting at the local High School. I got the job. For the rest …
I love to travel, seeing new places, eating new foods, and meeting new people are all wonderful parts of travel. The new places and experiences can be life changing. Travelling is my favourite thing to do. A close second favourite thing to travelling is planning my travels. I can spend weeks looking up places to …
I was in my room at my hostel in Barcelona, Spain when I knew what I wanted to do with my life. I found my purpose in that small, shared room. I was with my roommates (three Canadian girls) one night just talking in our room. They were on a Spring Break trip. They were …
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Today was promotion day. I had my hair and make-up done. I had the tall shoes on. I had a parent ask me where I was because they thought I was someone different. I had my principal speaking to me on the phone while she looked at me because she didn't know it was me …
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"I'm sorry" is how we apologize to people. How we say we made a mistake and we regret it. It could have been a harsh word, a bump in passing, a lie, or any other number of things. We do our best to convey regret for hurting another person and maybe regret for our actions. …
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Most of us have probably heard the old adage "If you judge a fish by it's ability to climb a tree it will always think it is stupid". This is commonly said about children and the current education systems ability to assess student performance. It's that time of year. The End. This is when we …
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But not the romantic kind. I just finished teaching my final science unit of the year and it was on Magnets. I like to do this at the end of the year because it's more hands on than other units on plants/weather/etc. This means that antsy and excited boys can move around while they do …
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The statistic is that most new teachers quit in the first 5 years. There are many reasons for this from administration to the zoo animals some people call children. Teachers are being asked to do more with less each day. From stagnant salaries and facilities to broken buildings and broken homes teachers have much to …
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