Image courtesy of Liliane Calfee, Soleil Media. We’re pleased to debut the fresh voices of the second cohort of the Go Girl Blogging Program! Stay tuned for new articles from new…
A Time for (Online) Work and a Time for Play
For the first time since I started kindergarten twenty years ago, I am not enrolled in school. I have no new professors whose names I pray to pronounce correctly, no…
Rejection: More Than Just Classroom Antics
During my final week in Tanzania, something different happened in school. As our dalla approached the familiar building we could already sense something out of the ordinary. I felt very…
An Unexpected Week for an English Teacher
This is my third summer living in Prague, and since I’m currently in between jobs, I’ve had lots of opportunities to travel. Originally, I was going to write about my…
Back in Time
Let me take you back in time, to 2009 when I first experienced Africa. Since the sixth grade when I first heard about my high school’s Tanzania Exchange Program I…
Last Day of School
It’s strange when you get what you’ve wanted for a long time. After eight months of working as a Kindergarten teacher, and one month of longing for the end of…
As the Semester Commences, It Feels like Fall
While I feel like I was just saying this a couple of months ago, I once again find myself on the brink of autumn. After one month of sweltering summer…
Michaela’s First African Experience! (Part 1)
As you may already know, I am a very lucky girl and have an awesome job working for one of the UK’s leading Gap Year organisations, The Leap! I basically…
Hitting
SMACK. A hand comes down upon Lidia’s body while she sits in class. You can hear the crack of the teacher’s hand from across the room, I know. No one…
Matènwa
I didn’t know what it was when we first approached it: some sort of circular autodrome-like structure made of cement walls and a tin, silo-like roof. The walls reach about…
Culturally Illiterate
By Beth I set my notebook down on the table in front of the teachers. Today is our day to review the computer program that we have developed, to look…
The Blessing and Curse of Light
The Blessing and Curse of Light By Beth Miguel motions me over to him, just steps into the school’s courtyard. I look behind me into the classroom. It is rustling…