Surprisingly, I've happened to use my projects in the classroom — it's quite attractive for the students to see some actual real-life materials along with the "been there, done that" stories as an addition to the book material and better than checking things on their own on the Internet. So from students' perspective this sole reason is enough for you, as a teacher, to collect some souvenirs from the countries you've been to.

Fed up with the Christmas stuff? There, there, let me pat you on your back. Stop sobbing, hush. As the Evil Mistress in the making I've got something to help you recover - a nice list of not-so-christmassy-Christmas songs. If you feel like it, share them with your students, but I'd rather use them as a nice background music for all the teachery stuff you have to do during Christmas anyway.

I love teaching online - I'm lucky to work with a good online school as well (good online school is a school that provides you with training, shares teaching materials with you and has supervisors ready to help), and I've been asked by some teachers how I actually got into online teaching and if it's like teaching via Skype. And since I guess it's slightly more complicated than "tutoring via Skype", I've decided to reflect on my journey so far - I know I have much more to learn, but things I've covered so far make me quite prepared to online teaching.