


Learning English is a part of Myanmar's education standard, so I am here to work on the students pronunciation and conversation-they can read and comprehend written text quite well. So I arrived at the perfect time to begin my teaching with my students' new school year. School in Myanmar begins during monsoon season in June, and ends before the summer in March. I don't really know simply because I do not keep track of the date here.

I've been at the monastery for a month or so now. Jasmine Williams, senior english major and recipient of the President’s Summer Fellowship, reports in from Mingaladon Township, Myanmar, where she is spending the summer teaching English at a monastery and learning Burmese language and culture.
