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As a TESL Saskatchewan board member, I thought I should try to get things going in the “blog” or discussion component of our website.  I’d like to invite people to respond to this question: “What inspires you or keeps you going as a teacher?”  I think we all have times when we need to remind ourselves of this.  My response would include the fact that I can empathize with my students—to at least some degree—because I’ve lived and travelled in countries where I was often frustrated because of my limited skills in the local language.  Sometimes I felt that I had become a child again, but not in a good way.  Also, teaching immigrants in Canada makes me feel that I’m repaying at least a little of the kindness that people have shown me overseas.  I could list many more reasons, but I’d like to invite my fellow TESL Saskatchewan members to join this discussion by posting a comment. Don Campbell