by Sean | Jun 29, 2013 | Education, Fulbright, Sri Lanka, Teaching English, Trinco Jesuit Academy
“We need students who can learn how to learn, who can discover how to push themselves…” -Seth Godin “Thank goodness I never went to school. It would have rubbed off some of the originality” -Beatrix Potter These quotes greeted my business...
by Sean | Jun 3, 2013 | Education, Fulbright, Sri Lanka
Ten days of “nobel silence”. One hundred hours of still meditation. For the past twelve days I was introduced to Vipassana mediation at the Dhamma Kūṭa center outside of Kandy, Sri Lanka. It was one of the most challenging things I’ve ever done....
by Sean | May 15, 2013 | Education, Fulbright, Sri Lanka, Teaching English, Trinco Jesuit Academy
I’m not TEFL, TOEFL, or CELTA certified. My only qualification as an English teacher are that I have a Bachelor’s degree (in finance) and I speak English. As a Fulbrighter the State Department gave me two days of English teaching training before sending me...
by Sean | May 2, 2013 | Education, Fulbright, Sri Lanka, Teaching English, Trinco Jesuit Academy
Learning Colours by Ramya Chamalie Jirasinghe I hear the maid tell my daughter, three years old and just able to make out red from pink and even blue from purple, as they sit on the verandah avoiding the glare of our tropical sun, that she is fair. If it had been...
by Sean | May 1, 2013 | Education, Government, Tech
I utilize my public library more now now than I have in the past eight years. This is especially surprising because I live over 8,700 miles away from it. I can’t recall ever checking a book out of the library while a high school or undergraduate student, but...
by Sean | Apr 2, 2013 | Education, Fulbright, Politics, Sri Lanka
I’m continually surprised by the challenges of working in a post conflict area. Trinco, the town where I live and teach, was relatively unaffected by the war. By this I mean there were a few bombings in town, but they did not suffer from heavy fighting. Just a...