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Romanian City, Iasi: THE City of Culture

Posted on September 6, 2012 by grumpytyke | 0 Comments

Featured writer: grumpytyke I am not by nature a city dweller, I much prefer rural life; however, it has been a real pleasure to return briefly to the city where I lived, and taught English, for several years in Romania. The city is Iasi , which is a major city in north east Romania with the country’s oldest University (the city’s…

We Don’t Need no Education: Teaching English as a Volunteer

Posted on June 30, 2012 by Marianne | 12 Comments

Featured writer: Marianne Elizabeth I’ve been interested in learning how to Teach English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) for some time so, last summer, once I knew we were heading out to south-east Asia for a few months, it seemed like the perfect opportunity to take the plunge. My studies were specifically geared towards teaching English as a volunteer, by…

Help Capt. Dave ‘Feed The Kids’ and Bless that Special Someone in Your own Life, too!

Posted on April 30, 2012 by Lesley | 0 Comments

Capt. Dave’s second annual Million Meal Packing Event begins next Friday, May 4th at 5 PM at Saddleback College in Mission Viejo. They’d love your help packing meals! And if you give to the cause, they’ll give you a gift certificate so you can treat that special someone to a Dolphin and Whale Safari. Million Meal Packing Event Ten people…

Making a Difference

Posted on April 8, 2012 by lyndarenham | 1 Comments

Featured Writer: Lynda Renhamcook Making a difference A lovely lady who introduced herself as Sochenda Kann greeted me. I was hot and weary after having been unwell with food poisoning a few days before. I had been in Cambodia for four days. Only a week before I had been freezing in England without the vaguest idea what Cambodia would be like….

Releasing Baby Sea Turtles and Surfing – Costa Rica, Day 21

Posted on March 28, 2012 by Nathanmenkveld | 3 Comments

Featured Writer: Nathan Menkveld Shortly after lying down in my hammock, a hard rain began to fall. I quickly rolled out of my hammock and threw my belongings sloppily into one of the tents that had room for an additional guy. Everyone scrambled to put the rain flies on the tents because we had chosen to sleep without them during…