After many months of planning and preparation we are finally all set to leave for Sao Paulo Brazil this evening. Last minute details include last minute packing, gifts for our friends at Impacta, and, oh yeah, a life insurance physical. Fun stuff.
I am excited about the opportunity to teach and help strengthen the working relationship we have with another school outside of the United States. It's really cool to be the only community college in North Carolina to have an exchange program like this but it has been and still does require a lot of work. The purpose of this trip is to help strengthen the foundation that is already in place by learning how they do things on their end. We will also be training their instructors on how to test students to get into our ESL classes as well as understand the culture and customs as much as we can. Hopefully next summer we will be sending our students to take classes there.
I dread saying goodbye to the wife and kids. Three weeks is the longest I've been away from any of them. Better go and hang out with them before we head off to Charlotte.
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