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First Days

Our first days of teaching have been crossed off the calendar, now we have sixteen and a half more months to go. Since this is a brand new program, a complete blank slate, the responsibility of creating the meat and bones of the curriculum rested on our tired shoulders. We ... read more

Amy Adoyzie Lam

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Potential Greatness

“How do you assess future greatness?” Kamal asked us, a dozen teachers sitting around him after another day of student testing. He, the Chairman and CEO of the Asian University for Women, gently slung the rhetorical question into the center of the classroom, it floated slowly to the ground as ... read more

Amy Adoyzie Lam

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If You Build It

Bangladeshi students began arriving today and I managed to only commit a couple cultural faux pas like showing my feet and a little bit of my shin to an entire family (on purpose… something about mosquito bites.) The students were flanked by family as they trudged up flights of stairs ... read more

Amy Adoyzie Lam

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Grass Grow

Television rots minds, smothers brain cells with apathy and erodes attention span. But apparently there are still populations of folks who are satisfied with watching shadows stretch across dusty pavement as the sun arcs across the sky. These folks can watch grass grow, or, in the case of this morning ... read more

Amy Adoyzie Lam

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It Takes More Than a Village

It felt like we were toddlers, discovering the muscles of our chubby marshmallow legs and wobbling on twos for the first time. A few of us decided to walk to a grocery store, Well-Mart, on our own. We gathered on the first floor, gingerly moving around constant construction and onto ... read more

Amy Adoyzie Lam

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Thumb is the New Finger

I wasn't aware of how often I relied on the thumbs up gesture to non-verbally say, “Okay, alright!”, “Awesome!” or “Woohoo! Thanks for not running me over with your rickshaw!” It just so happened that I was stricken with the stomach sickies and missed the Bangla language class where ... read more

Amy Adoyzie Lam

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