Remembering
It seems like yesterday but it's over seven years since I returned from my second spell of teaching in Bangkok, Thailand. Looking back, St Stephen's International School could not have been beaten as a place for bringing down the curtain on my illustrious teaching career. It was so easy there. No stress. No managerial responsibilities. No need to ever raise my voice and above all there were those delightful Thai schoolchildren. So pleasant and smiley, so grateful for the assistance I gave them and for the lessons I delivered. In the process of decorating our dining room and shifting the furniture around, I rediscovered a kind of farewell poster that one of my classes in Bangkok gave me in the week that my contract ended. It was so sweetly put together with "thank you" letters and a photo of me in the middle clasping a mug of coffee. The use of the word "Joke" was I hope positive - referring to my jokey amiableness in the classroom. On my very l...
