October of 2009 I head to Mozambique to teach English with Peace Corps. Here are some stories from my journey
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
I´m over it
Monday and yesterday (Tuesday) I had the worst two days of teaching since training. My lesson was how to write a resume, something I think is pretty important for students about to graduate high school. I was well prepared, had several activities, and thought it was going to go fairly well. SO WRONG! I think it was a combination of lack of understanding, inability to see the importance, and lack of motivation for any schoolwork that led them to sit there are stare. My students don’t participate a lot, I’ve gotten used to that. But there was something different about these last two days. Each class I’d change a few things and make my lesson clearer, more interactive, more basic, whatever, but nothing got them going. I currently have 2 hours before I have to go back and continue teaching them and honestly, I’d rather just sit here today. I’m trying to find the motivation to persevere but it’s getting difficult…
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Hi. Im a Peace Corps Volunteer in Namibia. Im about to finish my 2 years and was planning on traveling through Zambia and Malawi to get to Mozambique; then well travel north to Dar Es Salam. I will be traveling with 3 other volunteers and were looking for information on Mozambique.
ReplyDeleteIf you can help me out send me an email at: natebloss@gmail.com. I would be happy to hear from you; we havnt been able to find much useful information on the internet.
Questions we have:
1. Where should we go? Is there anything in the north to see. Any nice beaches up there? We would prefer to cross Lake Malawi and hang out in the north before heading to Tanzania. But if all the nice beaches are in the South we'll want to travel in that direction.
2. How much are Visa costs, and whats the best way to get one.
3. Ideally we want to take a train from Mozambique to Dar Es Salam. Are there any trains? If not, can we hitch hike (free hike?). We free hike everywhere in Namibia and its safe...is it safe in Mozambique? If neither of these are options how are the buses?
4. Do you know any cheap backpackers on archipelago de pacaruto?
5. How would we get to archipelago de pacaruto?
6. How are prices on things?
7. Anything else we should know?
Sorry for all the questions; just answer what you have time to.
Thanks,
Nate