My Article on Travel Was Published in the Huffington Post!

Signature "L" backbend with a student in Beijing! — Signature “L” back-bend beside a student in Beijing!

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 surprising moments, and also features a rockin’ photo slideshow. Please leave comments and questions, and share it widely! The HuffPo is sweet, but it has so much content that articles get buried, and I want to make sure that our story of 42 remarkable Boston students traveling in China gets out there.

This delicious news comes at just the right time to lift my spirits from the ordeal this site endured for much of this month.

A Boston high school student in the Forbidden City in Beijing.

As you may know, on March 4, 2012, the Dreamhost webhost company had a meltdown, incapacitating my two sites as well as one million others. For the past 11 days, I’ve spent hours on the phone and on email with Dreamhost trying to get my sites working again.

Writing is my joy and sanity and this site my second home, so you can imagine my personal meltdown incurred by the meltdown of Dreamhost.

I’m THRILLED to report that Dreamhost has now fixed the problem (meaning I’ve started breathing again), and I’ve also installed other “under the hood” fixes. Hopefully the site is now not only functional for you again, but also speedier than before!

Thanks again for your support of our against-the-odds student trip to China, and thank you again for your support of my complete and total obsession with blogging! :)

Lillie Marshall

The author, Lillie Marshall, is a 6-foot-tall National Board Certified Teacher of English, fitness fan, and mother of two who has been a public school educator since 2003. She launched Around the World “L” Travel and Life Blog in 2009, and over 4.2 million readers have now visited this site. Lillie also runs TeachingTraveling.com and DrawingsOf.com. Subscribe to her monthly newsletter, and follow @WorldLillie on social media!

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Ade

Friday 8th of June 2012

Well done on getting published on the HuffPo. A fantastic achievement. Did they just 'find' your article? Or is there a method for submitting articles for consideration ?

Keep up to good work.

Lillie

Thanks! The opportunity arose because I was chosen as Teach Plus Policy Fellow and jumped at the chance to join their HuffPo Editorial Board!

Joseph M.

Friday 11th of May 2012

You got your story published! I would never be able to do that. I would have loved to go with you. I would have learned so much.

Christine Yu

Thursday 12th of April 2012

First of all, congratulations! That's awesome. Now, you're going to become FAMOUS. Second of all, your writing is great. Keep on going! Finally, don't quit being a teacher! I like Humanities 7.

Thank you, and thank you, and thanks for reading and commenting! And don't worry-- I love teaching. :) The combo of writing, teaching, and traveling is the best!

Oliver

Friday 23rd of March 2012

Whoah...congratulations!

Thanks! Some amazing things are brewing as a result of it. Working on an article with details on this next!

Oriana H.

Congratulations! Although I've never heard of the Huffington Post until now.

They get millions of readers each month!!!