Travel as Self-Care: 4 Places to Visit When Throat-Punching Your Boss Isn’t an Option
It was about two weeks before it became clear that one day soon, I’d lose it and throat-punch the principal the next time she chastised me for not having a seating chart.
4 Things to Know Before Moving to China
Are you considering moving to China? Is it a good country for foreigners? I did a quick Google search of the best countries for expats and in particular, black expats. Guess what? China (excluding Hong Kong) was rarely listed. Yet there are more and more foreigners moving here each year. If you’re looking for a locale with a low cost…
Honduras Cost of Living: Rent & Utilities
NOTE: This post has been written for at least 3 months…all I can say is better late than never. I’ve been meaning to do a series of posts on the cost of living here in Honduras. You know, the kind of information I could not find online as I prepared to move to Tegucigalpa. Every time I sat down to write the…
A Tropical Thanksgiving in Honduras
As I mentioned before one of the perks of teaching at an international school is that we get time off for both local Honduran and US holidays. Last month we had a four day weekend for Thanksgiving, a holiday which local Hondurans do not celebrate. My experience at Lago de Yojoa reminded me that I am not the outdoorsy type at…
Celebrating Día de la Independencia at Lake Yojoa
One of the cool things about teaching at an international school is that we recognize both Honduran and U.S. holidays. The month of September is a pretty big deal across Central America. Most of its countries gained their independence on September 15, 1821. Unlike the United States which generally contains its independence celebrations to a single day, we had 2.5…
You can disarticulate a chicken with a butter knife and other things I learned during my first week in Honduras
As I write this post I’ve been in Tegucigalpa, Honduras just over one week. We arrived last Saturday night around 9 PM. The two flights, one from Houston to San Salvador and the other from San Salvador to Tegucigalpa, were, for the most part, uneventful. The only drama took place about 15 minutes before we were scheduled to land in…
Moving to Honduras: Bravery or Stupidity?
Well despite my total lack of preparation for the job fair I attended, I did indeed land a job working abroad. My new school is the very first one I met with at the fair. The position seemed custom-made for my experience. I’ll be honest and say that I had a very good feeling about the “interview” if we can call…
Teaching Abroad: How to Prep for a Job Fair
The Decision to Teach Abroad As of last spring, the plan was to spend the next four years (while my youngest finished high school) saving as much money as I could so that I could move abroad after she graduated. As fate would have it this summer I will find myself with a car fully paid off and at the…
