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Scholars stranded in America and abroad amid funding freeze of State Department programs | AP News

The U.S. State Department has frozen funding indefinitely for thousands of scholars participating in long-established cross-cultural program

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Happened across this sight while walking around city. No filter needed. :-)

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I taught my students the phrase “life is like a box of chocolates” a few months ago when we were doing a unit on idioms. Now whenever anything surprising happens, they start to yell “Teacher! Real Chocolate box!” This morning I overheard two girls in my class talking about a school couple that broke up last night, and one girl responded with “와 대박. 진짜 chocolate box이다.” (Wow. That’s a real chocolate box). I couldn’t help myself and busted out laughing. Happy Friday, y’all~

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Basket Weaving Skills

The small orange and black coiled raffia basket is from Labe, Guinea. The basket is raffia made from raffia. Raffia is a palm tree native to Madagascar with large plume-like leaves, the stalks of which yield a useful fibers used in baskets like this one.

From the Fulbright-Hays Trip Collection held by the Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture.

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“헐...영어 진짜 힘들잖아...”

I haven’t posted as much this semester because my teaching life has taken a complete 180 turn from my last two and a half years. For the first time in my ESL life, I’m teaching a textbook and designing tests and creating (and then executing) a curriculum in tandem with another teacher at my school. It’s really great and insanely rewarding but also pretty grueling at times. Currently, I’m about 1/3 through English speaking tests... which means I have to talk with each student individually for a few minutes in English. It’s an AWESOME opportunity to talk with my kids and to get to know them better but also it means I’m booked solidly between 8:40 a.m. and 10:30 p.m. My goal is to finish all of my speaking tests in two weeks... which is an ambitious feat to say the least. My breaks, meal times, and the entirety of night study is booked because of these tests. Yesterday, during my last test of the day, during the last question, my student was answering perfectly and mid-way through a sentence she just burst into tears. It was like something from a movie, almost. One second, answering with perfect grammar, and the next sentence absolutely weeping. Of course, I freaked out and started going “OMG! What happened?! Are you okay?!” The only thing she can choke out is “영어 못해서 미안해요 쌤...” (I’m sorry because I can’t speak English). And because I am who I am, I start crying too. So both of us are there just crying and hugging each other in the middle of a huge classroom when the super-strict old-school head teacher pokes his head in, sees us and goes “헐 영어 진짜 힘들잖아...” (Wow.... English is really difficult). Womp womp. Life is hard and speaking tests are hard and teaching is hard but it’s really easy to love the people in my life. It was a low moment but it’s also really funny thinking about it now. (And I feel a lot less stressed after crying about it, actually). tldr: I think teaching is hard, my students think english is hard, and my head teacher (possibly) thinks I’m crazy.

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Reconnecting with My Korean Heritage Through K-Dramas

Reconnecting with My Roots Through K-Dramas Both of my parents hail from North Korea, a country shrouded in mystery and sorrow. The Korean War in the 1950s not only ravaged the nation but also left them, along with 10 million other Koreans, as “ee-san gajok,” or separated families, yearning for their loved ones. When they relocated to the United States, they embraced a fresh start, raising four…

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Amna Raja – The Non-Profit Niche

“As a woman, I believe that we have an inherent responsibility to change a little bit of the world around us.” – Amna Raja. Today, in conversation with Amna Raja, Programme Manager at the Center for Technology in Education, we attempt to dig deeper and discover what it takes to lead the life that she does. She has been working at the Information Technology University ever since her return from…

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