On my first day in beautiful, green Bishkek, we went fishing. It seems an appropriate (and delicious metaphor) for my visit. After all, the proverb says that "If you teach a man to fish, you will feed him for a lifetime."
Okay. Our fishing episode was rigged as the fish were in feeder ponds and probably pretty hungry (by the
way, did you know that fish will eat corn kernels as bait?). Nonetheless, we worked and later feasted from our labors.
I've been in Kyrgyzstan this week for work and have had the pleasure of meeting with learners and teachers everywhere. They are so eager to learn and to better teach English. Focusing on this key motto seems appropriate in many ways in encouraging the development of professionalism and local teachers first so that their labors will feed English language learners for many generations.
Some photo highlights from our fishing expedition. (For the record, I didn't get a single bite on this day.)
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