Empty Nest Expat

Protesters doing yoga in Gezi Park What a fascinating week in Turkey as my friends have risen up and demanded their Turkish democracy be...

The extraordinary painting of Setenay Özbek at Art 350 Art Gallery in Istanbul Breathtaking Color   Isil Musluer One of the...

I was proud to moderate George Orwell's brilliant book "Animal Farm" at Global Minds Book Club  One of the Istanbul...

One of the blogs I love to read is Czechmate Diary , by Tanja, a Czech immigrant to the United States. Tanja is in love with all things Cze...

This week in the Prague Post there is an article about how the recession is affecting language learning. Cost-saving cuts to employee benef...

One of the nice things about having a large English-speaking population in Prague is that expats have started to create and grow their own i...

I have just completed my first week of teaching English and it's been really fun. My class load is twenty hours a week, which is just r...

Canadian Ian MacMillan on the Black Sea My flatemate, Ian MacMillan, and I are sharing a flat for the one month we live in student housing w...

Pre-intermediate students and teachers Yea! This is me with my first class of students. They came in for two weeks to let new TEFL train...

This year I had an incredibly thought-provoking experience when I facilitated a group discussion among a bunch of ESL students. It reinforc...