Sekolah Bogor Raya

by David Booth

When I was three years old, according to my mother, whenever I saw a caravan (trailer, in US English) being pulled behind a car I would say “Look! A caravan pushing a car!”
This little story is one my mother likes to tell, as mothers usually do. But it illustrates very well how children [...]

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What’s in a name? Take mine, for instance, STOLTZ. I‘ve been told by nearly every German I’ve ever met that it means pride in German. So it must be true. But, no, it isn’t according to online German dictionaries, Stolz, a common mis-spelling of my name means pride. Stoltz, itself, is meaningless.
Family history tells vague [...]

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After teaching for three years in Indonesia, I wasn’t expecting severe culture shock when I moved to a school near Guangzhou in southern China. I was mistaken. I found China to be as different from Indonesia as it is from my own home country, the UK.
Arriving in China from Indonesia one of the first things [...]

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I started blogging in the middle of May 2007. In this post I reflect on my experiences after one year of blogging.
First, I’ll deal with questions about why I started blogging and why I have continued. I started with some rather naive ideas about communicating with a captive audience of clients, students and staff. With [...]

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