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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. ....
by Daniel Opacki / February 9th, 2021 When I arrived in Rangoon in 2008, I felt as though I stepped into the pages of a forgotten colonial story within a musty old book. As I looked around Rangoon on my daily walks outward from central Rangoon, I saw the city was fully developed but neglected and abused by a lack of electricity and repair. Staunch British colonial architecture often sat behind rusted barbed wired fence pinched by wild-grown landscape and tall cackled trees. Absent in the decayed city was an overabundance of cars on the streets. Generators on curbsides everywhere belched exhaust into sweet jasmine air and shot power into buildings. Still, most people had no generators, and for them, the Dictatorship doled out stingy amounts of current late at night, usually between one to five in the morning. Burma’s people lived without basic necessities everyone in the modern world took for granted. Life moved slowly among street markets and sidewalk teashops that edged int ....