Jascqie received a Fulbright grant and is currently researching in Cambodia. Her plan is to gauge Khmer civil society investment in social enterprises on a macro-level. The focal activities of her research consists of working directly with a social business, one in Phnom Penh and the other in one of Cambodia?s rural provinces, and compiling her experiences, observations and data to create individual case studies for each entity. (03-16-10)

Since graduation in 2005, I have graduated Magna Cum Laude with a Master's of Education from the University of Maryland. I have been a teacher in a private school as well as a substitute teacher in various settings including schools with a Spanish Immersion program, or a Bilingual Education program. Additionally, I have also been translating to inform Spanish speaking parents about their children's progress, and I have spoken to students in Spanish to help them feel more comfortable in school (if they were not yet fluent in English). I have also picked up another language since graduation in 05.' I have learned American Sign Language, and I have been involved in the Sign Language Choir at my church. My future goals include, visiting a school abroad and teaching.

I am beginning my 3rd year of the PhD program in the Department of English and Comparative Literature, though I have been away from Chapel Hill for most of this year. In Spring 2010, I served as resident co-director of UNC's semester-long study abroad program at Universidad de la Habana, supervising 14 undergraduate students. In Summer 2009, I received a FLAS to study the second level of Yucatec Maya. I'm grateful to UM and to the LH for allowing me to develop my interest in language; it continues to inform my scholarship and teaching in ways that both personally and professionally rewarding.

After returning from teaching abroad in China 2009-2011, Michelle currently works at the National Foreign Language Center at the University of Maryland and teaches ESOL to adults in the evening. (10-2-11)

Michelle Eng is currently an instructor of English in the English Language Center at Shantou University in Shantou, Guangdong Province, China. She lived for three semesters in the Language House. In 2009, she graduated with her M.Ed. in TESOL and decided to go abroad to China to teach English. So far she's enjoyed a variety of activities including professional development, relaxation on Hainan Island, getting to know the campus, grading oral and written placement tests, and attending freshman orientation. She looks forward to teaching level 1 English to Chinese university students, making new friends, improving her Chinese and having new and fun experiences. She hopes that if you have the chance you will visit her in China.

Nick Burka: I've been working as an English Teaching Assistant at a small Primary > School in Ciudad Real, Spain. I work most closely with the > pre-kindergarten classes and kids in 1st and 2nd grade, but the school > of only roughly 150 students and staff all know me and never miss the > opportunity to say "hello!", "'good morning!" or just simply "nick!" > everytime they pass me in the halls. While in Spain I'm keeping an > online journal of my experiences and travels along with three other > Maryland residents (and two past Language House alumni, Laura Brewer > and Sarah Goldberg) and it can be found at > http://castillanadventures.blogspot.com. It's a good read that > promises not to disappoint!

Leaving the Language House was the hardest part of graduating. As I have said many times and continue to say, the Language House was the defining experience of my college career. I miss it immensely not because of the location or the facilities or the apartments or the events, but for the mass of extraordinary and creative indidviduals, all living and learning together in the same place. The students of the Language House are some of the best and brightest that this world has to offer, and as much as I miss seeing them every day, I know that they are making the world a better place in whatever path they have chosen or will choose after their time at UMD. For my small part, I hope that I can touch a few more lives in my bilingual sixth grade classroom in the Bronx through Teach for America. I will forever be thankful for the experiences that the Language House gave me that will help me to shape the leaders of our future.(9-30-07)

Jeff Imwold has joined the KIPP team of schools in New York City. KIPP is a highly successful group of charter schools aimed at closing the achievement gap in low-income communities around the country. Specifically, Jeff will be part of a team of ten teachers who will be founding a new KIPP high school in the city. His primary responsibility will be to write the curriculum for and design the foreign language department. (10-1-08)