Certificate Parties for Spring

Seems like a long time since I posted something. Sorry about that. Been busy you know. Well, here goes...

It's the end of May and another semester is done. As always, my students were wonderful and during my little speech at their certificate parties, I told them that they are the reason I'm in Mongolian, they are the reason that I still enjoy coming down to my classroom every day. I'm blessed to be their teacher.

Here's a few class pics, a 'beat-box' video and a drawing one of the students made for me. Remember, clicking any picture will take you to more graduation pictures. Enjoy.

Pre-Intermedaite 2 students

Pre-Intermediate 3 students

Handing out certificates

One of my students gifts

Yume demonstrates 'beat-box' music

Intermediate 1 class

Intermediate 2 class

Intermediate 3 class

And this week, our 4-week Summer Intensive classes start. No rest until July!

Sometimes change is inevitable

Well, just when I thought I had a handle on all these websites, somebody has to go and change something. Our English department website has been hosted on Ning.com and in a year has grown to over 200 members and over 2000 visits a month. But Ning.com announced this week that starting in July, it will start charging for this service. I'm not sure what their thinking is because the price is pretty steep - $20 a month. For me, that's just too high. So, in the next month I'll be working on redesigning my old 'Jim bagsh' blog to become the next Anglihel.com.

Here's a few templates I'm considering:

Which one do you like?

Here are a few Blogger Template websites:
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