Qualified Teacher, New House, Hospital Visit, Beer

I’m now a qualified ‘English as a Foreign Language’ teacher. Our CELTA course finished last Thursday 19th March and I got the result today. I passed with a ‘Pass B’ which is a pretty decent mark (around 67% of people ‘pass’ 17% achieve ‘pass b’, 5% ‘pass a’ ) the rest either fail or dropContinue reading “Qualified Teacher, New House, Hospital Visit, Beer”

Teaching, Eating, Reading, Drinking

I’ve been training to be a teacher (CELTA) for exactly one week.During that time I’ve reflected a lot. I’ve thought about; why I choose to re-train, what I was like as a student, what I’d like to get out of my time here, how much planning goes into a 45 minute lesson, how bad myContinue reading “Teaching, Eating, Reading, Drinking”

8hr Walk, Tattoo, $90 Motorbike

It’s been an interesting few days. On Friday I fought the hangover and the hangover won ♬. Sometime during the week I was messaged by a Vietnamese woman named ‘Van’ on Facebook. Van has lived all over the world, 16 countries to be precise including Cork, Ireland where some of my family hail from! VanContinue reading “8hr Walk, Tattoo, $90 Motorbike”

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