Love, It's All You Will Ever Need

Or so they always told the little girl. Unhappiness doesn't need to be solved by you, they said. He will come. He will complete you. All you need to do is wait. Don't strive, don't aspire, what would be the point? He is coming. So she did. She listened and did nothing. Contented in her bower, she sat and thought about Him. What would he look like, she wondered? Will he be beautiful? Will he be...

Tibet: Drepung and Nechung

So this has been a long time in coming but I figured I'd finally add to my posts on Tibet. I went for a week in January and already detailed the expensive and somewhat frustrating process of actually getting there: Tibet and Chengdu in January Let's see... I left off talking about the Barkhour,...

The End of TEFL

A few weeks ago I finally finished my online TEFL program and received my certificate! I am ridiculously glad it is done and I feel as if a great weight has been lifted. More than anything else, it was an exercise in perseverance. The irony of this certificate was that I was already teaching while taking this course to learn how to teach... At the end of the day (an idiom I taught my kids),...

Plagiarism as a Lifestyle

I feel like from an early age, it's been drilled into me to never cheat or plagiarize. Doesn't mean that it never happened, but at least I was aware that I was breaking the rules. Here, not so much. I ended up having the most frustrating class last Thursday when I spent about an hour and a half convincing these two high schoolers that not only was plagiarism immoral, they just weren't skilled enough...