Happy almost 2011!
Let’s resolve to embark on more travel in the new year.
To help achieve that resolution for less money, this site will frequently bring you news of travel scholarships and free travel contests…
…like this one:
The Seven Fund has just announced a competition for free travel to Rwanda during the summer of 2011 to study enterprise solutions to poverty.
Check out more details and application steps for the [...Read More!]
Today we welcome Natalie Patton, who will recount for us her journey to start teaching English in South Korea.
Take it away, Natalie!
Once it happens, it happens. There is no going back. Even if you wanted to, even if all you desired was complete normalcy within a small radius of what is homelike and comfortable, it cannot be done, because once you’ve been bitten, you will be changed forever.
It happened [...Read More!]
Monks and Randy’s daughters on a Thailand bus!
TeachingTraveling.com: Let’s dive into the exciting life of Randy, a U.S.-born teacher living in Australia who has traveled around the world.
Welcome, Randy! Tell us a bit about your background.
Randy: I was born in Colorado in the USA. As a kid, I lived in Washington DC, Chicago, and then moved to Argentina at 3 (Spanish is my FIRST second language!), New [...Read More!]
TeachingTraveling.com: Today we have the pleasure of chatting with Vijaya Selvaraju, On-Camera Presenter for ProjectExplorer.org.
Welcome, Vijaya! To start off, please tell us what exactly is ProjectExplorer.org.
Vijaya: ProjectExplorer.org is a one-of-a-kind educational online resource that provides travel series to children, teachers, and families all around the world at absolutely no cost. With 250+ videos, 1,200 dynamic images, 1,500 text-based materials, and 150+ lesson plans, we [...Read More!]
TeachingTraveling.com: Welcome, Rease! Tell us a bit about your background. Rease: I’m 23 years old and I’m from St. Louis, Missouri. I did not study education in college. Instead, I received two BAs, one in Audio Production and one in Spanish.
However, all through college I volunteered as a student tutor for an after school program with Catholic Charities.
It was a K-12 program that focused heavily on children from immigrant families. I [...Read More!]
TeachingTraveling.com: Welcome, Bill Graybill! Tell us a bit about your background. Bill: I started my traveling to teach with a trip to Moscow, Russia in 1998. That experience of working with college students in a totally different culture ignited a journey that has led from a small rural town in Oregon to teaching in seven countries and all corners of the United States.
I have been a Pastor in a rural church [...Read More!]
Hello, all! Today we have a brilliantly insightful piece from Craig, a New York ESL teacher.
Take it away, Craig…
While I myself don’t have too much experience traveling, I feel like I have traveled extensively through the stories of my ESL students. I love to travel, but am more devoted to my students and get to experience the world through them.
My students vary in age from teenagers through [...Read More!]
Wow. If you are a Boston teacher who dreams of travel but is worried about money, don’t even think about stepping away from this computer right now. In fact, if you live nowhere near Boston and aren’t even a teacher, stick around anyway, because there’s a valuable lesson in the poster below: THERE IS MONEY OUT THERE TO PURSUE YOUR TRAVEL DREAMS!
I know a whole bevy of BPS teachers who [...Read More!]
TeachingTraveling.com: Today we have an especially delicious treat as we interview Freda, a traveler who teaches cooking! Freda, tell us a bit about your background.
Freda: I was born on the Caribbean Island of Dominica, and my family owned the local bakery in my village. There, I got my early start in cooking and baking. Our family later relocated to the neighboring Island of Antigua, where we continued the baking profession [...Read More!]
TeachingTraveling.com: Great to meet you, Aaron! Tell us a bit about your background.
Aaron: I’m a teacher who has pursued many opportunities to visit many places across the United States. I was born and raised in Kansas City, Missouri. I left the Midwest to earn a Bachelor’s degree at the University of Texas at Austin, then I moved to Boston, Massachusetts to earn my Master’s degree from Tufts University. Immediately after [...Read More!]