From the Baltics to the Balkans: Fall Fulbright Reflections
Narva College As the days are growing colder and the Christmas candies are appearing in the shops, I am finally making time to reflect in writing upon my first few months as a Fulbright Scholar in Estonia. During the past few months, I have had the pleasure of teaching serious and smart students, working with helpful new colleagues, and traveling throughout Estonia and to Serbia for professional conferences. Opening Day Celebration at Narva College I am teaching four master’s level classes and two bachelor’s level classes at Narva College of the University of Tartu. The master’s level students are current English language teachers taking methodology, academic writing, media in English language teaching, and skills development courses. The bachelor’s level students have an oral communications class and a thesis seminar class with me. It has been really interesting to learn about the educational system and the local culture from my students. They, like students ...
Things are coming together - we have found a family to take care of our home and we have our trip to New York (Estonian Consulate for Visas) and D.C. (Fulbright orientation) planned.
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We are all focused on having some good summer times and preparing to leave in Early August!
The real adventure began yesterday with the good bye's from Hudson. Looking forward to seeing your news here!
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