I'm an expat working on her third year of life in the Himalayas of India, where my husband works at an international private residential school. The school is regularly flagged as one of Asia's Top 10 boarding schools, and is one of India's top 2 (alternating, it seems, with a school in South India). Having spent time abroad in Germany and one year as an exchange student in Denmark, India is now the country I've spent the second-longest amount of time in, after the United States!
Most of my time is spent pursuing my interest in languages and linguistics, studying at the Landour Language School (currently focusing on Hindi, Urdu and Garhwali). With the reality that I'm surrounded by teachers and students every day, I've picked up an interest in teaching, and as I've been given the opportunity to guest lecture in a variety of classes, I feel it's only appropriate to learn how to be a better and more effective educator.
All of this combines with my interest in cross-cultural communication and interculturalism, coming from a background of international relocation as well as language studies. Living at an international residential school only compounds my desire to pursue knowledge in all its forms - as well as taking a proactive role in finding ways to share that knowledge with others, student or adult!
When not up to my eyes in languages or MOOCs, I read, knit, and do a bit of amateur photography with a camera that deserves a far better user than I am!
Most of my time is spent pursuing my interest in languages and linguistics, studying at the Landour Language School (currently focusing on Hindi, Urdu and Garhwali). With the reality that I'm surrounded by teachers and students every day, I've picked up an interest in teaching, and as I've been given the opportunity to guest lecture in a variety of classes, I feel it's only appropriate to learn how to be a better and more effective educator.
All of this combines with my interest in cross-cultural communication and interculturalism, coming from a background of international relocation as well as language studies. Living at an international residential school only compounds my desire to pursue knowledge in all its forms - as well as taking a proactive role in finding ways to share that knowledge with others, student or adult!
When not up to my eyes in languages or MOOCs, I read, knit, and do a bit of amateur photography with a camera that deserves a far better user than I am!
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