10-Year Anniversary (First Time Traveling Abroad)

When I clicked "book flight" and got the confirmation, it felt as if my heart fell not only to my stomach, but right out of my body in general. I recall the moment when my mother was walking across the living room and I said, "hey, so I'm going to Australia." She said nothing but...

Arsenio’s ESL Podcast: Special – TOEIC – Reading Comprehension – Graphs + Podcast/YouTube

Welcome back, everyone! It's been a long time since I've done a TOEIC video.  Excuse behind it? None.  It takes a lot of time and preparation.  However, I've got a special treat. Since I'm checking out what the market likes, my reading comprehension video on YouTube has gotten an insane amount of views.  This time...

Next Trip: Hong Kong & Macau! Pre-Bookings & Efficiency!

Oh, how unbelievably elated I am to announce my first ever trip to HK.  I was suppose to go there last year on a layover, but I cancelled my trip back home to America (for so many different reasons).  So, discussion ran rampant in class one day and I was trying to tell my students...

Travel Blog: Episode 3 – Traveling Dates For This Year – Finally Set: Super, Beast, Trifecta, Australia, Hong Kong & More!

Barring any setbacks and leaving of the country, this is what my travels look like this year (roughly). Now that I know my future and I've finally let go of the past, I can focus on one of the most exciting times and live ahead.  This has been my dream - to teach everywhere, speak...

TOEIC: Conditionals II

I wanted to do another rundown of conditionals so you all have a more thorough understanding. If you understand conditionals, not only will it improve your score by about 5-10 questions on Part 5, but also improve your writing - enabling you to use complex structures rather than simple structures. Conditional sentences contain two distinct parts:...

TOEIC-TOEFL-IELTS: What Are Your Academic Goals?

To my students all over the world, you have to initiate the power of goal-setting. Without having any goals or end-goals in mind, things will never manifest in life. I'm a living proof of that because I stayed at a job that wasn't helping me professional, nor was suitable for my personality. It wasn't until...

TOEIC: Incomplete Sentences + Text Completion

Welcome back to a full-on blog and episode (in the YouTube video down below) about the two areas of grammar that's features on the TOEIC test. Without further ado - let's get into it. Directions: Select the best answer to complete the sentence.  The Stock Market falls when the unemployment rate ____________. will rise rises...

TOEIC Grammar: Double Comparatives & Order of Adverbs

Double comparatives Our nation gets fatter and fatter every year. more and more + adjective : The problem is getting more and more difficult to solve.To say that something is increasing all the time. We can use comparatives with the definite article the The more you say, the worse the situation will be. The more,...

TOEIC – Reading Section: Introduction, Tips, & A Passage

I decided to do the reading section of TOEIC because I simply haven't done a video or blog on it yet.  I'm excited about doing this because Native English Speakers can use these techniques for SAT (maybe). TOEFL is a difficult test, but it's also something you can use with it.  Stay tuned for that,...

Fun & Hobbies Goals For 2018

An implementation of "fun time" during the week is absolutely vital at this point.  I believe living in a slummy area (what I seriously deemed as a slummy area) in north Bangkok where the mindsets were extremely low...it took away from me meeting a lot of amazing people.  The monolithic perception of "blacks" being labeled...