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The main aims behind publishing these diaries are: to bring some good writing to you; to open the door to classrooms so that you can share other teachers' experiences of teaching English and to provide a series of thoughts and ideas that will allow you to reflect on teaching practice. We hope you will also find them entertaining. At times the writers also describe the experience of living in a foreign country and some also use occasional strong language.

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Do you teach in an interesting country or environment? Can you commit to sending us a diary entry every month for at least the next six months? If so, please send a teacher's letter to webeditor@macmillan.com so we can see a sample of your writing. The winning entry plus the best of the rest will be published on the site. Good luck!

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Diary from Bhutan: Discovering the dark side

Stephanie Earnshaw tells us about teachers' day and the King's visit. As if to counterbalance these joyful occasions, her eleventh diary entry turns into a bit of a ghost story session, featuring a daemon child and other scary creatures.
Diary from Bhutan: What to do, la

In her twelfth diary entry, Stephanie Earnshaw paints a linguistic picture of Bhutan by offering a few essential expressions in Dzongkha and some curious and matter-of-fact examples of Bhutanese English. She also visits a nunnery and a hermitage, and struggles to keep her weary college students interested.

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Stephanie Earnshaw

Stephanie Earnshaw returns to teaching in this continuation of our series of teachers' diaries from The Kingdom of Bhutan. She starts off in two schools and a university, as well as taking over from Shiriin Barakzai as a volunteer at the monastic school in Nalanda.
Shiriin Barakzai

A few months ago, Shiriin Barakzai accepted an unexpected invitation to teach monks English at a local monastery in Nalanda. She tells us all about teaching in this unique situation in a new monthly diary for onestopenglish.
Amanda Onken

Amanda is a US Peace Corps volunteer. She teaches English as a foreign language in Teteven, Bulgaria.
Amthal Karim

Amthal Karim is an English literature graduate educated in London but now living in Sheffield. She teaches evening classes at Sheffield Hallam University.
David Carver

David is a recently CELTA* qualified teacher working in a small friendly language school in London, teaching a three-hour advanced class four times a week and a three-hour conversation class on Friday.
Laura McGinnis

Laura moved to the Czech Republic shortly after graduation, and started working for a small language school in Prague. This is her second year as an English teacher.
Liana Kokkaliari

Liana Kokkaliari works as an English language teacher in state primary schools in Crete, Greece.
Lynda Ross

Lynda Ross has undertaken a six month voluntary placement in Siem Reap. The placement starts at the beginning of Oct 2007 and Lynda will send us regular updates on her progress.
Maria Alamanou

Maria Alamanou owns and runs a private FL school in Athens, Greece, where she also teach full time.
Melissa Briggs

Melissa Briggs has been teaching English for 15 years and currently lives in Switzerland. She works online and teaches at a local private school.
Saul Pope

Saul Pope is the Director of Studies for a private language school in St. Petersburg, Russia.
Simon Greenfield

Simon has taught for the past 11 months in the South-West of China and in October he starts a further six-month contract. The city he currently resides in rarely receives Western visitors so his diary often takes in the experience of being a bit of a star attraction.
Vicky Turner

Vicky is an ESOL teacher in Vermont, USA.
Willow Vanderbosch

Willow lives and works in a hotel resort complex in the Maldives.