Friday the 13th of January there will be a live band and ladies night at Paddy Makes Pub in Clayton between 6 and 8pm . The band U3 will be playing. See you there, am looking forward to it.
Matt

(Author’s note: This is the 2nd of a three part series I plan to write about my time at FSU-Panama. My years there will form the basis of a novel I’m writing called The University. This short article might seem very hard on the University but it is not meant as a revenge piece or […]

A lot of people will wonder why I would want to talk about any of this and I wouldn’t want to disagree with them. But as you all know I am very reckless with myself all for the fun of us all. Tonight, I went to the casinos and there were tons of women standing […]

In my living room I have a large square wooden table that I bought many years ago when the real estate boom in Panama was just beginning. At that time a lot of very inexpensive but good-quality furniture started to arrive in Panama. Much of it made in Asia. Before there had been little demand […]

It’s been a while since I’ve mixed it up in Latin American business.  It is a frenzy that is not for the faint of heart. As a foreigner, Latin American business is either a brutal beating or sublime education and success. When I first got started in Panama, I hit the papers to find any job […]

A friend of mine was born in Iran and grew up in Dubai. For many a year already, she camps in Northern Cyprus. A short while ago, she and I bantered about all sorts of things, including my flamoyant departure from Africa. Over our chat she dubbed the legal systems of uncivilised countries “the law […]

Let’s imagine a counter-intuitive scenario and decide whether or not it could become a reality. The counter-intuitive scenario is rather than Latin American workers from the lower classes moving north to find jobs in the U.S., let’s imagine middle class workers from the U.S. moving south to find skilled jobs in new industries in Latin […]

For many years, Prague has been a mecca for TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language) training but how is the industry evolving and what should you know before committing to a TEFL course?
The financial crisis has undeniably had an adverse effect on the whole spectrum of language learning in Europe recently and language schools […]

This is a very useful ebook to anyone who is planning to live, work or spend time abroad. Bruce Pohlmann has been an international teacher for over 20 years; he has taught in Bali, Pakistan, Malaysia, Japan, Thailand and India. His ebook gives the reader all kinds of insights into how to find the right […]

The First Step toward a New Life in Australia
“Getting started” is a summarized must-read if you are planning to live or work in Australia.
Its five chapters analyze and offer information on what you must know before you move: cost of living, visa options, setting up during the first 12 months, job hunting and more.
Tips and […]

(Photo opposite: Antonio Graceffo) In a low-level English class, with children, we read a very simple story book called “Jim’s New Bike.” There were only one or two very simple sentences per page. If you transcribed the entire book, it would be about one and a half pages of text.
The way I teach these […]

(Photo opposite: Jurgen Klemann) I got to Uganda on 14 January. Which is to say that I’ve spent so far about five weeks in my new stomping ground. Over that stretch of time, things have slowly started to fall into place. The university’s vice - chancellor’s concurred that I can continue staying at the […]

(Photo opposite: Friends from Carnival) The first night of the Carnival was a good one. Panama City is quiet and most people have headed to the interior of Panama to celebrate Carnival with family and friends. The big celebration in Panama City is on the Transistmica. The Transistmica is a major commercial road that […]

(Photo opposite: Library at Kumi University in Eastern Uganda.) The library of a university in the boondocks of Eastern Uganda looks slightly different to the university library of the University of Munster, Germany (where I scraped through law school). The selection of books available is a little more limited than at the University of Munster. […]

(Photo opposite: Jurgen Klemann) You ain’t believe it. A few days ago, I could grab the opportunity and brush up on my Chinese language skills, in the countryside of Eastern Uganda. The opportunity arose over a dinner bash, which my new university gave. The dinner bash largely served as a welcome for a mission […]

(Photo opposite: Antonio Graceffo) Mulan and Shrek both stopped by my classroom to help me teach English to second graders. Man, I wish that had happened when I was a kid in school.
Picture story is an incredibly fun and useful tool which can be used in a foreign language classroom for teaching real speaking […]