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Hi! Welcome\u00a0to\u00a0my ePortfolio<\/strong>. My name is Binal Khakharia<\/strong>. I was born and raised in Tanzania<\/strong>, a beautiful country in East Africa. I completed my schooling till Grade 10 (IGCSE<\/strong> – International General Certificate of Secondary Education) in Dar-es-salaam, then moved to an international boarding school in Bangalore<\/strong>, India to complete the IB Diploma<\/strong> (International Baccalaureate Diploma). Living in the dorms, meeting people from different parts of the world, having access to most of my teachers even after school hours, as well as to a plethora of co-curricular<\/strong> and extra-curricular activities<\/strong> to occupy us in the evenings and weekends, was indeed a unique and wonderful experience. After obtaining my IB Diploma, I moved\u00a0to Vancouver<\/strong>, Canada in 2008 to study Chemistry<\/strong> at the University of British Columbia. Having lived in three very different continents has humbled me and taught me a lot about people, as well as shaped me to be the person I am today. As a student, I have had some pretty amazing teachers who have had a positive and lasting influence<\/strong> on me. This was one of my reasons for returning to UBC to obtain a degree in Education<\/strong> for Secondary years and was pleased to learn that it offered an IB educator<\/strong> program. I am currently a teacher candidate for IB DP and am enjoying every bit of it. More than anything, I want to be able to touch young lives and make a difference<\/strong>, however big or small, like my teachers and mentors have done for me. For more information about my beliefs and practice, please read my Teaching Philosophy<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n This is my personal blog, feel free to leave comments, feedback or advice. Thank You for stopping by!<\/p>\n – Binal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hi! Welcome\u00a0to\u00a0my ePortfolio. My name is Binal Khakharia. I was born and raised in Tanzania, a beautiful country in East Africa. I completed my schooling till Grade 10 (IGCSE – International General Certificate of Secondary Education) in Dar-es-salaam, then moved to an international boarding school in Bangalore, India to complete the IB Diploma (International Baccalaureate … Continue reading Getting To Know Me!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27812,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/binalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/binalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/binalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/binalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27812"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/binalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/binalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":200,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/binalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4\/revisions\/200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/binalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}