TeachingTraveling.com: Today we have the fascinating story of how Jacob Madden and his wife saved money and went through a great program to volunteer teach in Nepal.
Jacob, tell us a bit about your background.
Jacob: My name is Jacob and I am 29 years old and was born in upstate New York. About midway through my childhood, my family moved down to Florida. That set the tone for me moving [...Read More!]
TeachingTraveling.com: We have a super unique teacher traveler today: American teacher Mike Welch, who travels the world gathering photos of people doing PowerKicKs, and who now is teaching as a professor in Bangkok, Thailand!
Mike, tell us a bit about your background.
Mike: My name is Mike Welch. I am originally from the Bay Area in California, about 25 miles outside San Francisco. I recently celebrated my 30th birthday here in [...Read More!]
TeachingTraveling.com: Welcome to Elise, former teacher and world-traveling blogger at Positive World Travel!
Elise, tell us a bit about your background.
Elise: I’ve grown up in Sydney’s Northern Beaches my whole life and only recently graduated as a teacher. I think I always knew I wanted to be a teacher.
My Mum is a teacher and the passion and love she has for her job really rubbed off on me. All through my teen [...Read More!]
TeachingTraveling.com: Welcome to great Pennsylvania teacher, Tracy Antonioli, who is about to take a year to travel and write a book on the educational value of different U.S. vacations for children!
Tell us your story, Tracy.
Well, let’s get the painful part over with first. I’m 31 years old. Whew! Ok. Now that that’s done with, I can continue! In eight and a half days I will have finished my eighth year [...Read More!]
TeachingTraveling.com: Please welcome Boston Public Schools teacher, Laura Castelli, who will tell us about wonderful student group travel opportunities in France and New Orleans!
Laura, please tell us a bit about your background.
Laura: Originally, I am from a small town in New York. I have been living in Boston for eight years now and teaching in Boston for the past three. I am currently teaching French at the Boston Community [...Read More!]
TeachingTraveling.com: Welcome, Anna Drapkin! Tell us a bit about your background.
Anna: I’m a 24 year old Bostonian at the end of an eight month experience living and teaching English in southern Spain.
Originally from a small town in Maine, I first became hooked on travel during a high school trip to France and Italy. Swimming against the strong tides in Nice, taking a boat cruise along the Seine, viewing the lights [...Read More!]
TeachingTraveling.com: Today we have a juicy tale from Will Peach! Will, tell us your background story.
Will: Hi! I’m Will Peach, a 25-year old Brit working as a site editor at Gap Daemon, a site that helps independent travellers plan, share and keep in contact with friends/family on their travels.
I spent two-years abroad teaching English in Vietnam and also spent shorter periods of time trying my hand at it in Russia [...Read More!]
Want an AMAZING travel and education opportunity? Read this, just in from Teacher-Traveler extraordinaire, Monica Wong about how YOU can help run an HIV/AIDS awareness campaign in Tanzania!
Take it away, Monica!
What is the most important tool in limiting the spread of HIV/AIDS? Education.
At Support For International Change (SIC), an organization dedicated to limiting the impact of HIV/AIDS in underserved communities, we offer volunteer programs that allow university students and [...Read More!]
TeachingTraveling.com: Welcome, Nikki Biddison! Tell us a bit about your background.
Nikki: I’m originally from the Central Coast of California, a beautiful place that’s hard to leave for full-time living in Cambodia, but Cambodia is now my “home.”
I studied for a teaching credential in California, but public education was not fulfilling for me. Not only that, but my family kept encouraging me to use my “skills” to teach abroad, so when [...Read More!]
What about traveling to a different country within your own home country? In this fascinating piece, Bostonian Mark Henderson describes the different world of the Native American reservation in South Dakota where he is an Americorps VISTA volunteer.
Take it away, Mark!
Traveling around the world to me is like trying to feed an endless hunger. I’ve always wanted to travel and I still do. I know that in my lifetime I’ll [...Read More!]