Of Teaching in Musanze

Here's an article about working or studying abroad. It mentions WorldTeach, the organization that is sponsoring my stay in Musanze. Teach for the World by NY Times columnist Nicholas Kristof.


Fewer than 30 percent of Americans have passports, and only one-quarter can converse in a second language. And the place to learn languages isn’t an American classroom but in the streets of Quito or Dakar or Cairo.

True, but I think it's more than that, too. The cultural experience is just as valuable. Living abroad is allowing me to put my own way of living in perspective. It's easier to see yourself when you're removed from the known and thrown into the unknown.