Hi everyone 👋 So my second semester as a middle school teacher just started, and I am more and more surprised how little really good teaching material is actually available to me. Because I teach a German, English, French, History, Geography and German as a second language I already deal with a wide variety of teaching material. The style and quality of the options available for each subject differ widely, and each has its own issues. I’d say its almost comical, if it wasn’t something so...

Hi everyone I just came to the USA for the first time and spent the last few days in New York. I’ll use this newsletter to share some of my impressions and thoughts that I have during this trip. 🚏 Getting around I often heard those stories about the New York subway being dirty 🐀 and underfunded. I also saw several clips of crazy homeless people on the New York subway, so I had kind of low expectations. Honestly tho, the subway works just fine. Trains arrive all the time, it’s cheap, it’s not...

Hey friends, it's been way too long — the Gregor Newsletter is officially back! 😄👋 It’s been six months since I started working as a middle school teacher in Hägendorf as well as a student at teacher school in Luzern. This week my first school semester ended. 🥳 When I started this journey, I already knew it would be extremely busy. That’s why I paused many of my previous habits, such as learning Chinese, filming videos, and also the weekly ‘Gregor Newsletter’. ⏸️ After restarting Chinese in...