If this will be promoted, or not, is yet to be decided. I think it might: I would want to have read it many years ago.
The most important thing to note about teaching abroad is this: there exists a condition that not travelling and being abroad is a choice. You might choose to be in the UK, in the place you currently teach, in a place you love, loathe, or feel somewhat indifferent about. But there is one benefit that working abroad gives you: momentum.
I heard this weekend about some people I used to know. One had secured a job in a less-than-stellar school, and was experiencing some teething problems, the likes of which are so specific that they could identify themselves through their mentioning. Suffice to say, they were somewhat ridiculous. However, they embrace the ridiculousness, secured their official warning, and lived as they through such suffering. No one can really know how they perceived such admonishing. Maybe they enjoyed how time time they have left at the end of the day to enjoy another evening of nourishment elsewhere? Or perhaps they simply suffered these stings as best they could.
Either which way, their focus was clearly not on the job.
My focus is moving into the purpose of teaching, and outside the grind of bureaucracy. To do that, I think that I should seek to affirm the perceptions of that which I express, regardless of their current veracity (or not!).
