Tag Archives: Teaching

End of week teaching in Kim Giang

The good news for you lot dreading another school review: This is the last core school I taught at in the week, and I taught here both on Thursday and Friday. The bad? I will do a quick rundown of the many cover schools I taught at as well! However, from this point on thereContinue reading “End of week teaching in Kim Giang”

Wednesday teaching in Cổ Nhuế

17-01-2018 I mentioned in the last post that Cổ Nhuế was great for banter and bad for everything else, but I was getting ahead of myself. Without a doubt it was the quintessential ‘schticks’ school for my internship; beyond the CT20 ringroad, painted yellow that was fading fast, quite a distance away from any highContinue reading “Wednesday teaching in Cổ Nhuế”

Wednesday teaching in Thanh Liệt

17-01-2018 Wednesday was very much a day of two halves. On one hand, I had Thanh Liệt, a school that was not all that modern and noisy as fuck but had a strong TA in the form of Hien. On the other, Co Nhue 2B, a school with great banter between myself, Niamh, Mia andContinue reading “Wednesday teaching in Thanh Liệt”

Tuesday Teaching in Cự Khối

16-01-2018 Vietnam is not a country where I thought much about eating breakfast.In Ireland I would have had a bowl of porridge, some toast with peanut butter or if there was time I would fry some eggs and have orange juice. It was needed for the hour long cycle from my house to work, andContinue reading “Tuesday Teaching in Cự Khối”

The first day teaching

15-01-2018 Prior to this internship all of my worklife had been bad to mediocre; retail, dole, retail, 2 weeks of work experience in a job I actually liked, office admin for a better than minimum wage but still not earning enough to live on a salary that you can settle down with, and that wasContinue reading “The first day teaching”