![]() In addition to teaching English, Westerberg also runs the extracurricular English clubs at his high school to keep students excited about improving their English abilities. Originally from Preston, Idaho, Westerberg arrived in Ethiopia in July 2014 and began teaching 3 sections of grade 9 students in September 2014. Westerberg lives and works in Yechilla, a small town with about 10,000 inhabitants, in Ethiopia’s northern most region of Tigray. ![]() Westerberg, a lifelong fan of Pearl Jam, began teaching English to 160 grade 9 students in 2014. SeptemADDIS ABABA: Peace Corps Volunteer, Matt Westerberg used Pearl Jam’s “Even Flow” to have a little fun teaching English to his 9 thgrade students in rural Ethiopia. Peace Corps Volunteer in Ethiopia Uses “Even Flow” to Teach English Damn the man! Rage against that machine! We’ll do it ourselves! And with 50,000 views so far, I think we have! I guess this kind of fits with the whole grunge movement anyway. So here’s the unofficial promotion!Ī few other alternative music websites and radio stations picked up the story too. I wrote an official press release, but unfortunately the folks in charge at PC Comms said that it violates copyrights since the video includes the original Pearl Jam song and therefore can’t be officially promoted by Peace Corps. The results are awesome! Matt and another Volunteer, Kirsten, put together a hilarious video showing some of the best sides of Peace Corps: cultural exchange and education. Matt, an English teacher in Yechilla Tigray, which is just down the road from Abi Adi, taught his students the words to Even Flow. ![]() Ever since then, I’ve been a fan of grunge and have listened to Pearl Jam, off and on – but mostly on – for the past 20+ years. This one really resonated with me since the first two CDs I ever owned were Pearl Jam’s Vitalogy and Stone Temple Pilot’s Purple. Matt’s Pearl Jam project in Yechilla is one of them. Sometimes a project comes along that’s just too good to NOT share.
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