Reflections on the past year.
This last year has been one stressful year, some good, mostly bad, but here goes.
November starts off bad with the reelection of Bushit (I love the Manchester Guardians headline "How could 56 million people be so dumb"). Three days after the election my best friend is killed in a car crash. The next three months are agonizing because of a decision I need to make which I announced to the world on my birthday February 15. I decided to quit my job of 23 years and teach in Thailand. So I cashed in my 401 K. Nine days after this on February 24th my father dies from a massive heart attack.
After burying my father I arranged to the sell the condo and the car, plus pay off all of my debt. On April 15th (about three weeks before I was scheduled to leave I discovered I had artial defibulation. I went to the hospital to have my heart looked at and test run. During the procedure they found I may have an aneurysm is my leg. They sent me to emergency surgery and did not find it. I spent five days in the hospital when I was suppose to get out over night. 10 days later I went back into the hospital to have two stints put in my heart. During this time the surgical cut in my leg did not heal correctly and that was causing me some problems.
Finally I was allowed to go and after all the visits and goodbyes I left about he 24th of May. I started my six week course at Text and Talk on Memorial day and finished week of the Fourth of July. I found a job rather quickly and took a nice long weekend with my girlfriend at the time to Puket.
The job was fun. I was teaching P2, P3 and P4 students (2nd, 4rd and 4th grades). Things changed every week and the school's owner kept requiring new requirements. Myself and the other teacher (plus the agency) kept getting in hot water with the school's owner. So I guess you can guess who was released. And no it wasn't the agency. My last day on the job was September 30th. After six weeks (they allowed us to stay to finish the term) I got a job teaching English to factory workers and office workers at a major plant in the area (4 hours Tuesday thru Friday and two hours on Saturday with more hours down the road at 500 Bhat per hout). No benefits per say but the pay is good and I should be able to save a little money.
I need to make a Visa run by the 21st of November (every three months) so I am planning a long weekend to Cambodia and hopefully will get to see Angor Wat.
November starts off bad with the reelection of Bushit (I love the Manchester Guardians headline "How could 56 million people be so dumb"). Three days after the election my best friend is killed in a car crash. The next three months are agonizing because of a decision I need to make which I announced to the world on my birthday February 15. I decided to quit my job of 23 years and teach in Thailand. So I cashed in my 401 K. Nine days after this on February 24th my father dies from a massive heart attack.
After burying my father I arranged to the sell the condo and the car, plus pay off all of my debt. On April 15th (about three weeks before I was scheduled to leave I discovered I had artial defibulation. I went to the hospital to have my heart looked at and test run. During the procedure they found I may have an aneurysm is my leg. They sent me to emergency surgery and did not find it. I spent five days in the hospital when I was suppose to get out over night. 10 days later I went back into the hospital to have two stints put in my heart. During this time the surgical cut in my leg did not heal correctly and that was causing me some problems.
Finally I was allowed to go and after all the visits and goodbyes I left about he 24th of May. I started my six week course at Text and Talk on Memorial day and finished week of the Fourth of July. I found a job rather quickly and took a nice long weekend with my girlfriend at the time to Puket.
The job was fun. I was teaching P2, P3 and P4 students (2nd, 4rd and 4th grades). Things changed every week and the school's owner kept requiring new requirements. Myself and the other teacher (plus the agency) kept getting in hot water with the school's owner. So I guess you can guess who was released. And no it wasn't the agency. My last day on the job was September 30th. After six weeks (they allowed us to stay to finish the term) I got a job teaching English to factory workers and office workers at a major plant in the area (4 hours Tuesday thru Friday and two hours on Saturday with more hours down the road at 500 Bhat per hout). No benefits per say but the pay is good and I should be able to save a little money.
I need to make a Visa run by the 21st of November (every three months) so I am planning a long weekend to Cambodia and hopefully will get to see Angor Wat.
posted by DERMAN at 10:27 AM
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