• Photo Challenge

    Earth Day – Beach Clean-Up

    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 were many things buried deep in the sand and other things too large to move. The best way to solve this problem is to not let these items reach the beach. Please try to dispose of items in a proper manner so they can be recycled or scrapped in a more eco-friendly way.

  • Daily Prompt

    A Teacher’s Purpose

    Weekend In my room, at my hostel in Barcelona, Spain I knew what I wanted to do with my life. I found my purpose in that small, shared room. My roommates (three Canadian girls) and I were sitting around one night just talking in our room. They were on a Spring Break trip. They were telling me about how they were enjoying Spain. Their frustration was mounting because of their difficulty communicating. They wanted to know why couldn’t people learn English, that would be so much simpler. I bit my tongue. I wanted to tell them that they were in Spain, why hadn’t they learned Spanish before travelling. They continued…