Brady Tobin ’19
Week 8:
Thank You
December 15, 2019 | Hey everyone, welcome to the last entry of my blog. As I write this, I am sitting in my room waiting to get driven to the airport. My bags are packed, I have said my goodbyes to everyone except for my host family, and I am done with everything I need to do except write […]
Week 7:
Lessons Learned
December 9, 2019 | Hey everyone! Welcome back to the Penultimate Edition of Brady’s Blog. This week went by so quickly as we only had four days of school. I can’t believe I only have one week left in Ecuador. In this blog I’ll be talking a little about my week and a little about what I have gotten […]
Week 6:
Expectations
December 1, 2019 | Hey everyone! Welcome back to the sixth installment of my blog. This week was a busy one and I’ll be sure to tell you all about it, as well as talk about some of the differences between what I expected my experience to be like and how it’s actually going. Monday was hard for me. […]
Week 5:
Home
November 24, 2019 | Hey everyone, welcome back to the 5th installment of my blog! This week, I’ll tell you all about what I got to do as well as talk a little about missing home. This week, and for the next three weeks, we have daily inter-class sports championships. This means that we have to block out 2 […]
Week 4:
The Value of an Education
November 17, 2019 | Hey everyone, thanks again for reading my blog this week. I hope you are all enjoying learning about my adventures in beautiful Quito and seeing what amazing things my students are doing! This week was a busy one but it was busy in the best way possible. The students in my homeroom class (Primero Bachillerato) […]
Week 3:
Daily Routine
November 10, 2019 | Hey everyone! I just reached the end of my third week in Ecuador and am here to tell you all about it. Over the course of this week, I finally started to settle in. My Spanish is getting better, I’m starting to get to know the students and faculty, and I have finally gotten into […]
Week 2:
Work and Play
November 3, 2019 | Hey everyone, welcome back to another exciting week of my blog about my Fellowship experience in Ecuador! Picking up where I left off: last Saturday I went to Santiago’s mom’s house for an amazing lunch. Despite my being sick all day on Friday, I felt great on Saturday and was starving after a morning walk […]
Week 1:
Departure, Arrival, and Immersion
October 26, 2019 | Hey everyone! My name is Brady Tobin and I am currently in Quito, Ecuador finishing up my degree in Math Education. For the next 8 weeks, I will be student teaching at Colegio Ecuatoriano Español América Latina. I only just finished up a wonderful 8 weeks of domestic student teaching at Iowa City West High […]
