Plog: Paulie’s Blog
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Further discussion on the importance of English teaching
Is teaching English as a second language to impoverished children in rural areas really an important endeavour for volunteers? This article continues the discussion with suggestions to replace the large classroom teaching with smaller, more intensive lessons.
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Does English teaching really make a difference?
Does English teaching make a difference to impoverished communities? When undertaking meaningful travel, does this count?
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How to reclaim your time with Google Reader!
I’m not the most productive person in the world sometimes, but I hate wasting my life and doing things repetitively if there’s a better, more efficient way to do it. I have set out a 5-step how-to (once you do steps 1 and 2 one-time it’s only 3 steps!) to reduce the time spent going…
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Is youth the secret to happiness?
There seems to be a secret kept by our youth that so many of us seem to have forgotten. They are happy, careful and joyful, why not us grown-ups? Do we have to “grow up” and be responsible? Does it work for all of us? If not, then should we be teaching the same principles…
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The experience of an unlikely volunteer English teacher
I’m a unlikely, newly recruited, English language teacher for a Karen migrant school found on the Thai-Burma border. In this article I just relay some of my daily and classroom experiences so far, and my take on my progress and that of the children.
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Your money or your time: Put your life on a ledger
A ledger is the name given to a type of book upon which transactions, typically financial, are recorded. So how do you record your life’s transactions? Well it’s actually quite straight forward.
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PCs for Migrant Children: The story so far
At the time of writing, it’s been a full 2 weeks since I launched my PCs for migrant children campaign on my blog. It’s been a very interesting time to say the least and I’ve learned quite a bit about fundraising, collecting money online, getting the word out, and learning more about the people that…
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Are you being specific about what you want?
Do you know what you want now? Where do you want to be, what do you want to be doing? You will never achieve them satisfactorily unless you take a few minutes to get very specific about them. It’s easy to do, and here’s how…
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PCs for Migrant Children Campaign
I’m currently volunteering in some migrant schools in Mae Sot, Thailand, teaching English. I originally came to teach IT, but there are no computers here! So I’ve had the idea to raise some money to purchase second-hand PCs and install them there as a basic for students and teachers to learn some basic IT skills.…
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