Michaelangelo's David & Jáuregui´s Miguel de Cervantes
Teaching portals I have passed through….
- Carlinville High School, Illinois
- Jacksonville High School, Illinois
- MacMurray College,
Jacksonville,Illinois
- Castleton
State College, Vermont
- University School,
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
- Saint
Mark’s School, Southborough,
Massachusetts
- Mount Saint Joseph
Academy, Rutland, Vermont
- Green Mountain
College, Poultney, Vermont
- Bloomsburg University,
Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania
- King Faisal
School, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
- The
Overseas School of Colombo,
Sri Lanka
- The American-British Academy,
Muscat, Oman
- The
Institute of Technological Studies, Colombo,
Sri Lanka
- Tsinghua
Experimental School in Shenzhen,
China
- Yonok College,
Lampang, Thailand
- Pen School,
Pen, India
- Modern
American Language Institute, Sana’a and Aden, Yemen
- The American College of Higher Education, Dehiwala, Sri Lanka
- The American International School, Dehiwala, Sri Lanka
- Microsoft
Corporation, Bangalore,
India
- Looking for "just one more"
Learning portals…
- Murrayville Grade School, Illinois: Grade 8 diploma
- Jacksonville High School, Illinois: High School diploma
- Illinois State
University, Normal: B.A. in Spanish and French
- United States Naval Officer
Candidate School,
Newport, Rhode Island:
Commission in the U.S.
Naval Reserve
- Middlebury College, Vermont
(in Spain):
M.A. in Spanish
- Université de Bordeaux,
Guadeloupe, French Antilles
- Alliance Française,
Paris, France
- University of San Diego, California,
in Guadalajara, Mexico
- New York University,
NYC, in Madrid and Salamanca, Spain:
Ph.D. courses
- Advanced Placement Workshops, Alicante, Spain
- Bandaranaike Centre for International Studies, Colombo, Sri Lanka
- International
Language Institute, Cairo,
Egypt:
Certificate in the teaching of English as a foreign language
“Ports” of call...Canada, Jamaica, Haiti, Guadeloupe, Cuba,
Bermuda, Iceland, Ireland, England, Scotland, Spain, Portugal, the Azores, France,
Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Crete, Morocco,
Lebanon, Jordan, Syria, Egypt, Ethiopia (now Eritrea), Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, United Arab
Emirates, Bahrain, Oman, Yemen, Mexico, Guatemala, Panama, Viet Nam (Danang & Saigon), the
Philippines, Japan, Guam, Hawaii, Sri Lanka, Maldives, India, Hong Kong, China,
Thailand….
Some superlatives…
The most colorful: Guatemala (banner)
The most beautiful: Florence,
Italy, and Vermont
The biggest: China
and India
The most expensive: Switzerland The best school: Saint Mark's School, Southborough, Massachusetts The school least happy in: Mount Saint Joseph Academy, Rutland, Vermont
The best foods: France,
Italy, Germany
The strangest foods: Thailand
and China
The friendliest: Sri Lanka
The least welcoming: Saudi Arabia The most famous person met: Sir Arthur C. Clarke Some of the excellent teachers: Laura de los Ríos de García Lorca (sister-in law of poet Federico García Lorca) (Middlebury College), Allie Ward Billingsley (Illinois State University), Emma Mae Leonard (JHS), Mrs. Greenwalt (Murrayville Grade School)
The most chaotic: Cairo
The hottest: Saudi
Arabia
The coldest: Vermont
The worst traffic: Cairo and Bangkok
The worst drivers: Yemen
and Egypt followed by India and Sri Lanka
The most comfortable to live in: Madrid
and London
The worst experiences: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; Casablanca,
Morocco; Sana’a, Yemen
The most beloved: Vermont, Illinois, Spain, and Sri Lanka |
