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Over the last two decades of teaching, there are several language and teaching resources that have proven to be helpful in my language classroom. Some of the resources are specific to languages and others lend themselves to teachers across a broad spectrum. Below are some trusted language and teaching resources websites.

Leading up to a year and a half in Peru and Bolivia, a visiting priest, either in ignorance or false hyperbole, described the poverty and struggles of Peru. “All they had to offer us was cuy or our guinea pig. That’s all they had to eat.”

Bucket lists. Everyone has one. Mine seems to expand with each National Geographic article, Instagram photo, and Facebook family trip I see. So you could say I have continent bucket lists. Thus, my best Bucket List ideas.

Dulce de leche, empanadas, pizza, and asado have a special place in our hearts. Between every parrilla or empanada joint in Buenos Aires, Argentina, there is a panadería offering a tasty assortment of pastries, cookies, sweets, and breads.

After a busy day in Phnom Penh, a bus carried my backpack and its incredibly handsome owner to Siem Reap, closest town to the iconic Angkor Wat temples.

There were many reasons to visit Cambodia. The first is the spectacular World Heritage site of Angkor Wat and all its’ temples. The second reason is learning about the abhorrent Khmer Rouge regime. The first, happy-go-lucky, the second, makes one ponder the human’s capacity to hurt one another.

Every November, this small town in eastern Thailand hosts this amazing elephant round-up, the Surin Elephant Festival. Dusk quickly descended upon our arrival by train into the town of Surin. Six in the evening on a Friday night is busy . . . with pachyderms.

As luck would have it, a local bus headed immediately to Ranong, the town where we could jump over into Burma for a daytime Myanmar Visa run. Fr. John pointed us in the right direction towards Burma. “Yeah, keep going until you hit the water, then start swimming west.” Once there, one could immediately see the change from a prosperous Thailand to a shy and poor Burma.