As this is my second last day in this country I thought it appropriate to reflect on the past 12 months and what it has entailed for me......my personal journey. Some will agree and some will not with many of my thoughts but to everyone I say this is MY experience. I cannot say it has been a pleasure, in fact it has been a horrendous experience with the exception of some of the wonderful people that I have met. The world of EFL brings together a potpourri of pe...

Am on my last week and cannot express how happy I am to finally be on the way out of here. It has been the worst year of my life in so many ways. I cannot write much at the moment as my contract forbids me to be open and honest in expressing my thoughts but rest assured my final blog for this country will be just that.....open and honest, warts and all The last few weeks had been one farewell after another as people pack up to leave.....and of course this has...

We have finished teaching for another quarter......my final classes of Intermediate students !!!!. Exams done, papers marked........only 2 of my students passed which was actually better than I expected. It has been a crammed 8 weeks with extra classes and we are all exhausted. The students will now go off and do their military training. In our extra hours we ran a "charity bash" where our students selected a local charity and ran a stall to raise money for...

Again not a lot has happened this month......seems to be a recurring theme here!!! Basically it is go to work and back to the apartment from Monday to Friday.....then spend the weekends at the apartment only going out for a run or a swim. The break for the week is our Tuesday night "Ladies night" at Mimi's Restaurant in Thu Dau Mot. We catch the bus in after work, do our bit of required shopping and then head to Mimi's for dinner. Ii is run by an Englishman who...

We are well and truly into the rainy season which simply means instead of being hot and dry it is now hot and wet. Still averaging about 35 degrees during the day but unfortunately it also rains most days which has put a dampener on many activities such as my usual walking and running. Not that we have let it affect our social activities including a pool party in torrential rain. What a night it was...just as we were about to walk down to the pool the heavens ...