Moving to the UAE

Moved to Japan but on my way to the UAE.

I moved out of China. Moved off to Japan and moved out of Japan. Moved out of the far east into the middle east.

Am now living in the UAE.

I will try to update more now that I have a better position to chat about. But there is no need for me to do ground work in the UAE. TESOL Arabia is a hot and happening entity.
If only JALT had been that exciting.

Or for that matter, if anything could have been done with Tesol in China.
But if the former president of TESOL himself couldn't instill the goodness of that fine organization, there is no way that some small time English teacher in a backwater school could do so. Could only help others get better.
And I did.

So proud of myself for all my fine work with the teachers in China.
You should see them all now
One is teaching at a major university in Shanghai.
Another is happily installed in a major university in Beijing.
yet another is very happy in his beach front location in the far south, loving the sun and the proximity to Thailand!

And they all write to me regularly to tell me about their great students and how much more fun they are having now that they have had some training to back up what they already knew in their hearts as good teaching.

Eventually I will go back for my PhD and become a fully qualified teacher trainer, helping to ensure quality teachers rather than the fly by night backpackers that still plague this field.

Enough of my rant.

I just finished with Tokyo Disneyland for my vacation. Now I am headed to Hong Kong before planting my feet firmly in Dubai.
Yeah! Dubai!