Fabulous news! I’ve just had my first ever article published in the fancy and famous Huffington Post! (If you’re a cool kid, you may know it as the “HuffPo”.) Want to read it? Great! Click here to see: “5 Things I Learned About Education From Taking 42 High Schoolers to China.” The article has some… [Read More]
Teacher Travel
China Travel With 42 Boston Students Was Wonderful!
HOORAY! We are all safely back from a phenomenal student tour in China! I burst into tears of emotion when my fiance picked me up at the airport last night, so happy was I about what we accomplished over the past 8 days. Here are the facts: On the morning of Thursday 2/16/12, after a… [Read More]
Why Giant Tour Group Travel in Toledo, Spain Didn’t Stink
“Sell-out!” jeered a cyber-heckler when I posted my article about going on a 3-day Florida-Bahamas Cruise. So I can only imagine this heckler’s horror when he learned that this “brave solo world traveler” (a.k.a. me) super “sold out” and accepted a free 40-person teacher travel tour to Spain over New Year’s through EF Tours. Why… [Read More]
Celebrating the New Year in the Times Square of Spain!
WOW. I have just returned to Boston from five of the most action-packed days in Spain imaginable, thanks to the free teacher training tour run by EF Tours. And… WOW. The unquestionable highlight of the tour was celebrating New Year’s Eve 2011 in Puerta del Sol, Madrid! Puerta del Sol is the very center of… [Read More]
Hello From Madrid, Spain! How Different it is This Time!
Hello From Madrid, Spain, where I am on a wonderful, whirlwind Free Teacher Training Tour run by EF Tours! On this 5-day trip, I am in training with a group of teachers who have flown in from around the United States to prepare as much as possible to lead a group of our students abroad.… [Read More]
100 Different Ways to Finally Start Traveling!
Sometimes we nearly faint from despair, thinking, “I can never travel, because I don’t have enough time, or money, or opportunities!” …But that’s simply not true! On March 31, 2011, in glorious Boston, I coordinated Teaching Traveling Inspiration Night, which aimed to help more teachers fulfill their travel dreams, thus transforming our world’s educational system… [Read More]
