Site Assignments

This week site announcements came out.  I will be (stuck) with Bill (his blog) for the next two years in Elbasan. Also, John will also be here with us for the next two years (See the picture of the three of us below). Elbasan is the city that I've been in since I arrived in Albania, and so I already know that it's a wonderful city, in a bright green cultivated valley, surrounded by terraced hills and mountains.

They kept everybody wait for some time the day these announcements were handed out. They decided to hand them out in the afternoon. They had stacks of white envelops with our names and sites.  They called you up to pick up your envelope, and you knew then and there were you were going to live for the next two years.  In your envelope, there was a description of your position and the contact information for your counterpart.

I will be a University English Professor at Aleksander Xhuvani University. I will get the opportunity to teach several subjects:

-American Studies
-American Literature
-SLA Research
-Composition
-Reading
-Listening and Speaking
-Presentation & Pronunciation
-Sociolinguistics

I am looking forward to building my CV and enjoying the recursive processes of teaching and learning.