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Footprints Teachers around the world are doing amazing things. We have selected one teacher each month to highlight and share his or her story with you. I hope you enjoy the stories and that you take full advantage of the amazing opportunity to live and travel in a foreign country. |
Nichole Kalmanek - Animal Rescue Our Feature Teacher of the month is Nichole Kalmanek. Nichole contacted us in June of last year, and secured a position with the Gangwondo Provincial Office of Education in September.
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Carmen Eade – Coming Full Circle Five years ago I would never have dreamed that I would be where I am today. After graduating from the University of Alberta as a biology teacher, I moved west to Vancouver where I could replace snow for rain and porgies
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Hosa Thomas – Living The Dream In Ho Chi Min It’s Ho Chi Minh City now. Though the days when it was Saigon are long gone, the shadows of the colonial period can still be seen in the architecture here, around the shipyard, and in the large trees, planted long ago
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Henry Hurst - A Sense of Destiny Henry Hurst became a Footprints teacher in June of this year and he is currently teaching South Korea with the Gyeonggi-do Provincial Office of Education and is LOVING it. He is the first foreign teacher that has ever taught at his
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Dave and Bennett – The Homecoming Dave Harvey and Bennett Ho are two Footprints alumni that have recently returned to Canada and are now working with the Footprints Team at Head Office in Vancouver. Dave returned in December 2006 after four years abroad in South Korea, India
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Putting the Korean Experience to Use - Alexandra Woods
Spend some time in South Korea and parlay that into a job at the Korean Consulate in Canada? That’s exactly what our alumni, Alexandra Woods, did last month. Alexandra came to Footprints with a Bachelor’s degree in Education with the
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Jim Gary and Shirley Kramer - Teaching Team Jim Gary and Shirley Kramer are team teaching at Xuzhou Senior Middle School in Xuzhou City, Jiangsu province. They have been in China since August 21st, 2006 and have been doing a great job ever since. The Footprints staff is currently
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Claudia Carroll – Artist, Author, TV star!
Claudia Carroll is in her first year with Footprints and is currently working with the Taiwanese Ministry of Education in a Public Elementary school in Taipei county, Taiwan. Claudia is an accomplished author and artist – check out her excellent blog:
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The Flying Semerjians Catherine Semerjian is the latest Semerjian sibling to be successfully placed in a teaching position in South Korea by Footprints Recruiting.
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Clifford Yeats - Surreal Moment
Clifford Yeats has received a promotion to HR director with one of the organizations that we work with in China.
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David Carson – Ready for Round Two We all have insatiable thirsts. Some talk about certain foods, drinks, forms of entertainment and people who have come into our lives and changed us in such a way that we will never be the same. For those of us who
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Stephen Chappell – A Kinder and Gentler Media For whatever reason I seem to be rather popular in Anqing with the media. I have been interviewed by Radio Anhui News Service and have appeared a couple of times on the local Anqing television station. In fact I even sang
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Tomieca Johnson – Boogie Chillin’ Tomieca Johnson is an American coming up on her third anniversary in Taiwan through a Footprints placement and she is, again, looking into some of our alumni opportunities in order to continue her time there. During her time in Taiwan she
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Vanessa Lurie – Pedaling for Peace Vanessa is a Footprints alumni who spent a year in South Korea and has now decided to continue her passion for traveling and combine that with a bicycle and peace – interesting, no? Read about her imminent adventure below and if you’re in Korea, try to make it out to Vanessa’s fundraiser for Peace Pedalers and BEN (Bicycle Empowerment Network) this Saturday, January 14th. It is being held La Plancha in Itaewon – for more information click here to check out the poster.
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Matthew Bolduc – Komdo Champion My training is going very well. I train in the morning 2-3 times a week with Kumdo (sword training) and I go to the gym Monday to Friday every lunch break and Monday to Friday nights I train in Hapkido.
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Jenny Mei – Staying in a Korean Temple Our feature teacher for the month of October is Jenny Mei, a teacher at Samgaksan Middle School in Seoul, South Korea. Jenny arrived in South Korea in August, 2005 as a part of a pilot program which saw Footprints place 36
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Ben Trowbridge – Guest Appearance on English Cafe It started off simply as an activity to take the English Club to a viewing of the television show "English Cafe" but other plans were brewing. About two weeks after my initial contact with EBS (English Broadcasting System) I received a
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Katrina Abkemeier – Her Next ESL Adventure! Katrina has recently filled a Footprints alumni placement in Ghana, Africa. Before I came to Africa, I was teaching in Korea through Footprints Recruiting. I knew that after I finished my contract I wanted to have another adventure so I started looking on their website. Since I am a Footprints alumnus, I
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Preciouse Fauteux - Tibet and The Everest Monster Preciouse is presently teaching in China through a Footprints placement and she has recently undertaken a trip to Tibet and base camp 1 on Mount Everest - Check out her story and pictures!
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