Thomas La Grua's Asia University Blog

Today was a difficult day for me, but it didn't start out that way. In the morning, I got up at 3:00 am to have a Skype chat with someone from Mexico. After that I went back to bed until 7:30. Then around 10:00 am, I drove to school for my one o'clock class. Unfortunately, there weren't any parking spaces, so I had to wait for a while. The, just before class began, someone told me that I would have to move to another class. I said, no problem because I figured that they'd all be just about the same.  As it turned out there was a problem. It was a computer classroom, and I was teaching English pronunciation. First, we couldn't get into the classroom because it was locked, and then when we finally did get in, I realized that with 60+ people it was going to be really crowded, yet still doable with the help of a little technology. Unfortunately, all of the computers were locked, so I couldn't even use the CD that I had planned on.  So I taught for the fi...

Although I do not see a detailed plan for moving through this world and changing it/me/all for the better, I do have within what I speak and do a broad plan in the works to work with what is here (wherever I am), participating in bringing about a new found land based on the principle/s of equality within what is best for all. Basically this means that to change the world for the better right now requires that those participating in the process of changing do so from wherever we are rather than waiting to get to the next point of readiness. For me, this translates into the practical realization that, rather than moving to another country and/or attempting to enter into a new field of expertise, I will be more effective by simply leveraging my current career as an educator so to from within the education system assist students and teachers alike to realize that we as the creators of the relationship lines that interconnect and flow from each of us as cause are equally as one res...

The picture above is the building that I spend much of my time in on the AU campus. This blog that I am now writing is part of my commitment to my students to write and post along with them. Perhaps our motto could be, a class that writes together stays together. Sometimes when I sit down to write, there is so much that I want to say, that I have to say, that I don't know where to begin or how to begin. To be truthful, I don't enjoy structuring blogs before writing them and I usually don't; I like to simply write whatever comes up. Right now what is coming up is the question of what to write about; what should I write that I haven't already written about? I guess that since this blog is to be my first AU blog, I will begin with how I have been experiencing myself here at AU over the last three months or so. The campus is cool, the students are cool, and the Faculty/staff are also cool. It's not a huge campus, so I don't have to drive or ride a bicycle t...