Teaching English online for CINCILINGUA is very enjoyable. The students are a pleasure to work with. There is one big challenge – juggling times zones! Teaching Online, I can teach from anywhere, so when I am in Chicago, which is one hour behind Cincinnati, where the CINCILINGUA offices are located I have to calculate that because CINCILINGUA only uses Cincinnati Time/ET for classes. When a student requests class at a certain time according to Eastern Standard Time, I have to remember to subtract one hour (if that’s the right way to put it.) So far so good. Sometimes, though, it gets a little complicated. Once I was teaching a student from Argentina, where they are two hours ahead of Chicago. During that same period, I had a student from Guatemala, where they were one hour behind Chicago. At this time I am teaching a person from Mexico who normally lives in New York City (one hour ahead of Chicago), but this week she is in Mexico City (the same time as Chicago). I have another student from Colombia (one hour ahead). In Costa Rica they don’t observe daylight savings time, so for a while we were one hour ahead of Costa Rica in Chicago, but now we are on the same time. (Did I say that right?) Every now and then, my head spins! So that is why CINCILINGUA never talks about scheduling a class using any other time zone other than Cincinnati Time/ET.
Making your New Year’s Resolution Come True
Happy New Year!!! It is 2023 and with every New Year comes New Year’s Resolutions. Nothing is impossible if you set your mind to doing it. Throughout history there have been people that dared to dream big. In doing so they made big accomplishments. The telephone, automobile, and airplane all started with a dream. Being
