Teaching in China During COVID-19
Teaching in China this spring has been quite the experience. The semester began, as scheduled, on February 10th. Instead of physically returning to campus after the month-long Lunar New Year holiday, we started teaching online. The epidemic prevention period in China, AKA “Coronavirus Lockdown” was already a few weeks old by then. From late January until just recently, all across…
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.
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…
