My Rocking Cradle

Majority of us Filipinos are proud of our English Proficiency, written and verbal.
I got this from an agent offering real estate properties. This is one of the “better” ones already.
Greetings!
More power and see you soon!
We don’t have yet an actual pictures of the model units that you saw last few days when you arrive there at [...]

Math was not my favorite subject back in school. If I had Math help back then, it would have been different. Maybe.
Students are lucky these days. They could get help anytime by just typing on their keyboards. There is an Online Math tutoring website called Tutor Vista which could be accessed anytime. Tutors are available whenever [...]

… and he had his first day in school today.

My Little Dynamo had his first taste of a real school setting today in the pre-school of the university where his Lolo (grandfather) is the university president.
He is the youngest and the smallest… as expected. He isn’t even a regular student… he is just there to [...]

Asians are known to be good in Math. The Chinese, Japanese and Koreans are known to have the diligence to excel in this subject. Even then, they get all the available help that they can on the subject. The internet has introduced a new medium for Online Math Tutoring and it is available twenty-four hours a [...]

I went to a number of day care centers before I settled for the Kinder Schule in Mapo. For the first three months, my son only attended a twice a week, 2 hours program. This month, I have enrolled him for a three days, whole day program. Whole day program starts at 10 in the [...]

While we were in Lotte World last Sunday, my Korean friend asked me if I want to be an English teacher here in Korea. She is an English teacher in one of the schools in Gangnam. She is one of the earliest Korean friend I have here in Seoul and she has always been eager [...]

A Korea Times article dated yesterday reads “Obama Lauds Korea’s Education for Children“. I clicked on another article… then… wahaaat? I clicked THE article again. 
Picture this: 7am in school, home by 9pm (lucky child) or home by 10pm (normal child) or home by 11pm (are you still a child?). For a normal competitive Korean family, the [...]

If Koreans will have their way, almost all of the parents would want their child/ren to go to Ivy League universities in the US. The English language is a national obsession. English hagwons are everywhere here in South Korea. As early as seven (7) years old, children are being sent out to other countries, alone, to study [...]

The name of the building above is Mapo English Literacy Center.
My Korean friend brought me there to 1) borrow toys for two weeks for free and 2) borrow English books for two weeks for free.
It is a newly-renovated building which houses Mapo’s new English program. The program will be formally opened on January 29, 2009, thus [...]

Vacation in Iloilo City couldn’t be complete without revisiting my Alma Mater, the Colegio de San Jose (CSJ).
 
This vacation year was even more special as it was a good time to introduce my Little Dynamo to my teachers. Imagine my kindergarten teacher meeting my 2 year old son! The picture below shows the same room [...]