Category: TEFL Stories
Stories surrounding my experiences teaching English in Silesia, Poland 2010-2014.
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Plan B: to abandon the audio entirely and act out the dialogue on international business etiquette myself.
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But the flicking of peel, the laughter, the sense that I had no footing at all… that tipped me over. It wasn’t the fruit. It was the sudden realisation that every instinct I’d relied on for two decades was useless here.
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I’d walk into a classroom with a bag full of cards and props, and by the end of the lesson the whiteboard looked like a cross between a Picasso sketch and a crime-scene diagram.
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I’d safely been in Poland for perhaps five minutes, and a cardboard caricature of my past career had already beaten me to the job.
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… but why buy a watch that says POLICE?”
Ghosts to Carry, Stories to Keep 