Monthly Archives: October 2012

I don’t know why there are two eids (revealing my shameful lack of engagement with the culture of my host country), I only know that I’m always thrilled to have a day off school and a long weekend that I … Continue reading →

How about a Bridget Jones—style diary entry to explain the lack of posts this week? You know, the ones where she lists how many cigarettes she’s smoked, how many calories she’s consumed? I’ve banished the smoking and overeating demons (as … Continue reading →

For those of you who are waiting with bated breath to read my published work (or even my next blog post), I don’t want you to asphyxiate, so to keep you going here’s one of my early pieces (in its … Continue reading →

How can it be a week since my last post? I promise a proper update sometime this week; in the meantime I just want to reassure you that this blog is still a thing.

That’s my job title. Mentor. I mentor Malaysian primary school teachers as they struggle to implement a new English curriculum. Until I started this job last year, the word mentor didn’t mean much to me, but now that I’m tuned … Continue reading →