Vagari

Greetings,

Ah, the vagaries - from Latin 'vagari' meaning to roam, wander.

New ESL job offers in and out of China are under consideration for potential new adventures as you know from blogs, images and podcasts.

My two years here on a fascinating minute part of Earth ends on 5 July or, using another quantifiable numeral, 730 odd days.

It's been delightful educational experience engaging senses. The students have been marvelous darling, simply mar-yell-ous. It's been a high process-product Time. Finished editing my book and it's now receiving editorial evaluation at a publishing concern; put 2700 miles on the Warrior bike, gathered new raw life material, gardened roses, traveled and learned a little.

True knowledge is knowing how much you will never know.

I'm considering an offer to teach writing at a public university in a nearby province offering new terrain - mountains, meditation zones, access to oceans and your standard swirling bureaucratic Red tape. Chop, chop. Maybe.

A Science and Technology university in Baotou, Inner Mongolia made an offer. Think yurts, wild grasslands, nomads and sterile drab gray Stalinist citified Chinese structures. Imagine classrooms filled with highly unmotivated passive students looking for answers without asking questions.
Thanks but no thanks.

Waiting to hear from IEN, an Australian based company teaching EAP and IELTS assessment courses to computer and accounting non-English majors at a university in the northern city of Dalian. It's a professional operation and excellent location.

Japan and Korea want young teachers. No dice.

Eat well and see what happens. Pay attention. So it goes.

Peace.