lessons learned

We teach people how to treat us

April 13, 2011

We teach people how to treat us. This is true for every relationship we have. By giving way on small points, people learn where our limits are and will push against those limits. Then we must fight.

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Fundraising – How not to ask for money

February 17, 2011
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If you’re fundraising and asking people for money or donations to support your cause, there’s a right way to ask for money, and a wrong way. I’m going to outline an experience I had from someone asking me for money and how he did it very wrong, and what there is to learn from it.

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The experience of an unlikely volunteer English teacher

July 16, 2010
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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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