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Hanna Lehikoinen
Name: Hanna Lehikoinen From: Finland Program: Women’s’ empowerment and Environmental project 1. What did your average day look like? Depending on where I was working, my working day started in different time. Sometimes it started at 8 am or then 9 pm. First I was teaching children at the secondary school about environmental awareness for […]
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Laura Novo
Name: Laura Novo Gender: Female Country: Spain Program: Teaching English in School (August 2015) 1. What did your average day look like? I got up around 8-10 in the morning (depends on the day) and I had breakfast. At 12 o’clock I was in Monastery to teach Spanish with one monk who has been living […]
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Stephanie
Name: Stephanie Gender: Female Country: Germany Program: Teaching English in School 1. What did your average day look like? I got up at 7:30 am. After breakfast and lunch I walked to school at around 9 am. At 9:45 am the school assembly started. I then, taught class 7. Then I had no classes until […]
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Chui Lee Wong
Name : Chui Lee Wong Gender: Female Country: Malaysia Program: women empowerment and Teaching Karate to Girls for self Defense 1. What did your average day look like? Everyday wake up at 5:30am, teaching Taekwondo class to the local kids. The class will take an hour to an hour and a half. Breakfast at 8am, […]
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Riki Matsumoto
Name: Riki Matsumoto Country: Japan Gender: Male Program: Teaching English 1. What did your average day look like? Usually early mornings around 6 or 6:30 A.M. Breakfast at around 7 A.M. Well depending on which placement you’re at, but for my teaching placement, it was 6 periods of class a day 45 minutes a period. […]
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Anna, Carlota, Clara, and Ariadna
Name: Anna, Carlota, Clara, and Ariadna (Spain) Sex: Female Program: Teaching in Monastery 1. What did your average day look like? We woke up at 6:45am, had breakfast at 7am and went to Zumba lessons at 7:30. After the lessons we taught English at women’s concern, the class used to start at 9am until 10 […]
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Linnea Petersson
Name: Linnea Petersson (Swedish) Sex: Female Program: Teaching English in School 1. What did your average day look like? I got up at 6:30 went to Zumba class at 7:30 after breakfast. Then at 9 I had English class with the women. After that I went to school to have English or some other subject […]
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Christina Manriquit
Name: Christina Manriquit (US) Sex: Female Program: Teaching English in School and Monastery. 1. What did your average day look like? Class with little monks (grade 1) or tutor older monk from 8-9am. Substitute for science teacher at Himalayan Deep School 9:45 – 11:55 (grades 6 7 and 8). Class with older child monks (level […]
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Elena
Name: Elena Gender: Female Country: Spain Program: Teaching English in School 1. What did your average day look like? I got up at 8 or 10(depends of the day). I had breakfast in Durga’s place at 10-11. At 12:00 I went to the monastery to practice Spanish with Namdak. Namdak is a monk who went […]
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Luis Miguel Gonzalez
Name: Luis Miguel Gonzalez Country: Spain, Barcelona Program: Teaching in Monastery and helping to orphans Before to start my project, I stayed 2 or 3 days in the tourist area of Kathmandu and Durga made me the volunteer card and taught me some words and expressions in Nepalese. Although the people normally understand English, is […]
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Annie Merkley
Name : Annie Merkley Gender: Female Country: Spain Program: Women Empowerment and teaching English 1. What did your average day look like? My average day here was very varied I arrived during festival, so many of the schools were on break. This however gave me ample time to get lesson plans organized for the monastery […]
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Yuriy Budenko
Name: Yuriy Budenko Country: Spain Program: Teaching in Monastery 1. What did your average day look like? Get up at 6:30am, Breakfast at 7:00. Moring Puja or preparing to lesson. Lunch at 11:30am. Dinner at 6pm. Free time. Gates closed at 8pm. 2. Other things I did on my placement. Clean up room. Playing with […]
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