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Waitinig fot change

Intrinsic problems of having a son.

I have many observations and understandings of what it takes to bring up a son. Especially a son that seems not to understand empathy and doesn’t get close to his mum and dad.

When are the big Chinese online schools coming back?

Your first reaction to reading the headline may well be, “Where have you been hiding for the last two months?”. No, I am not still in the third, or maybe fourth, stage of grief. This isn’t some pipe dream, a result of some particularly strong cheese consumed too close to bedtime. Now is it wishful…

The strange and mysterious case of coincidence.

There can be something remarkably ghoulish about coincidence. Not only ghoulish but also straight up bizarre. How a number of things can conflate and coalesce at the same time to be not only devastating but also fortunate. This is the situation I find myself in. Leading up to the great Whales English Black Thursday event,…

What a week that was!

Well what a week that was. It has been the longest week I can remember for some time. The abrupt nature of the cessation of my classes with Whales English has been proceeded by a hard working and intensely feverish search for fresh opportunities. I had been looking at other teaching platforms over the last…

How do I grow and change as an online teacher?

At the moment, this isn’t a self help, instructional post. Those types posts are, I think, what is wrong about the social media age we find ourselves clinging to. They are the equivalent of the self help manuals that were popular in the early naughties. They are written or presented by someone who seems to…

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