Trains And White Privilege
Posted in Sri Lanka, 1 year, 6 months agoI remember the exact place where I swore off long-haul train rides for as long as I lived. It was in the middle of my 2002-2003 winter break, which I had planned entirely around the idea of using trains to travel between Rochester, Boston, New York, and Washington, D.C. What a novel concept in our […]
The Big Picture
Posted in Sri Lanka, 1 year, 6 months agoI felt better after last week’s rant about the teachers at the school.
Speaking of which, your comments have been wonderful. My next blog is will be a Talkback so I’ll have the opportunity to respond in detail. Thanks so much–some of them were very helpful!
However, it may be surprising to you that all that […]
The Joy of Teaching
Posted in Sri Lanka, 1 year, 6 months ago“I never realized they needed to be painted!” a friend responded when I told him what some of the boys and I did last Sunday.
Several of the blackboards in the secondary classrooms were so riddled with permanent white pock-marks that anything chalked onto them were unreadable. One of them was inexplicably painted with glossy […]
