Earlier this year I received a Pedagogical Award of 10 000 SEK from my employer  VBU, to spend on a course or experience that would develop my teaching. I decided to check whether it would be possible to visit a teacher doing almost the same thing as I do myself, but in another language. It is now less than three weeks left before I leave for my visit in a school district in NJ, USA.  The teaching of English as a Second Language will be my main focus and it will be interesting to experience what it is like, compared to teaching Swedish as a Second Language.