Tag: Hungarian High School
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Risk-Taking in the ESL Classroom
Helping Students Step-out of Their “Comfort Zones” My former Hungarian high school student, Kristof, had it in his sights all along. He said he wanted to study abroad, somewhere in Europe, ever since I knew him as a 9th grader. Recently, he wrote me from his university in Sweden, “Steve, I am way out of…
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Joseph’s Gift
He greets me many school mornings, hand outstretched, a smile on his face. I didn’t know his role at the school and frankly it didn’t matter. His is a friendly and calming countenance, a momentary oasis, in an environ-ment of noise and commotion–a typical Hungarian high school. One day I asked him what he did…
American in Budapest 