Category: Teaching

• Students and Teachers

  Everything here is so different in ways I had never thought: facial expressions and gestures, hygiene and personal needs, relationship dynamics. The students are all so different, certainly they are in America too, but they are different in ways that seem so odd to me. These students know that us teachers have no idea of…

  MHunt20

  January 24, 2016

  FSM, Teaching

• Gaining a New Self in Chuuk

  Here is a small history on Chuuk, Federal States of Micronesia (FSM): The state of Chuuk is within the Truk Lagoon. During WWII, the Japanese were stationed in Chuuk, FSM. All around the lagoon there are sunken WWII ships and the island I am on hosts various Japanese structures from the war. The building my…

  MHunt20

  January 14, 2016

  FSM, Soul, Teaching

• The Big Decision

   In the beginning of 2016, I went to the Federal States of Micronesia (FSM), to teach Freshmen Literature and Junior and Senior Journalism while developing the campus newspaper at a boarding high school. The following entries are from my journal of my experience.  Last week, my cousin–Kevin–asked me to apply to teach in Micronesia, where…

  MHunt20

  December 17, 2015

  FSM, Teaching