Slightly Off the Grid

(aka Maywood Living)

stress

April 17, 2020

Teaching From Home: One Month In

Good news! A month of teaching from home has not killed me. It came close in Week Three, with my resting heart rate mounting from stress and an allergy medication contributing side effects of anxiety and depression. But the doc released me from the allergy med and we got –dramatic pause– Spring Break! I don’t Continue reading

COVID-19, ESL, french, random musings, teaching

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September 17, 2010

Schedule shock

A calm thought: Sunset in St. Malo Chika is a 6’8″ 16 year old from Nigeria who just arrived at our school–three weeks into the year– to play basketball. His first language is Igbo. His second language is English. He is in my French I class. Culture shock doesn’t begin to describe his first week here. Continue reading

random musings, teaching

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