Teaching Abroad at Home

by Matthew Henry Hall In the drugstore, Mahito, a tall young guy, an exchange student, held up the box of Midol. “Good for headache?” he asked. “Sure,” I said. I wasn’t thinking and later corrected my mistake. With, I still hope, no harm done. I’d been rattled that day. I’d taken a group of fourteen Japanese college exchange students to the top of a piney mountain in Arizona. Once there, Yuuji, a student, nearly exploded. How did I find myself in this situation? Somewhere back in the early 1990s, I began working towards an MA in English. I taught composition […]