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“I get inspiration from my students” : Ben Taylor on teaching Kazakhs English  Ben Taylor-English Language Coordinator – Ben, could you tell us how it appeared that you ended up in Kazakhstan?  – After graduation, I was preparing to build a career as an English teacher outside the United States. When I was 22, I went to work in South Korea. And later, at the age of 27, I became a Peace Corps volunteer on the Pacific island of Pohnpei in the Federated States of Micronesia. At that time, I first heard about English Language Fellow program, in which English teachers are sent abroad for ten months. This idea seemed very interesting to me, so I applied in 2015. Even then, I decided that I would go to any country where I would be sent, but there was still a preference. I dreamed of working in Central Asia, because I knew very little about these countries. When I was sent to Nur-Sultan, I only knew that the capital is one of the coldest.  

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