“Do you have enough tape for your windows?” I looked back quizzically — tape for my windows? I flashed an uncertain smile at the elderly store clerk and kept walking out of the cramped, derelict convenience shop that I had stumbled into for a water bottle and a welcomed puff…
Posts published in September 2018
Six months ago, I never would have believed it to be me to say this aloud: “I am an English teacher.” I spend my weekdays with children, teaching them phonics and grammar and reading and writing, how to converse, what to say when they hear this or that phrase. I…
Friends, timezone, livelihood, language, food; nearly every single thing in my life has changed in three short, spirited weeks. When I wake up in the morning, I have to convert the weather from Celsius to Fahrenheit just to know what to wear. If I ask directions about how far something…