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 San Salvador. There was an announcement that there was bad weather at the airport and planes were not being allowed to land. So we circled around for about 45 minutes. There was thunder, lightning and even stomach upsetting (for some) turbulence. This would not have bothered me in the least…
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 it that. I’m not really sure it was technically an interview… Despite my good feelings, I did “interview” with several other schools located in Mexico. On the low, I only talked to these schools to cover my bases so to speak. One school sort of jokingly offered me a position…
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 end of my lease. My friend K asked me why not just travel or move abroad now instead of waiting. I thought about it and really could not think of too many reasons to stay. At this point, I was not decided. But as the school year began and I…
