Tag: Emigrated

How I Accidentally Emigrated and Became a Teacher: Part 2

[This is the second post of two telling my story of how my life changed during one day in Bangkok. The first part brings you the context for this post:] So, I had entered the big ECC building (English and Computer College) in search of a teaching job so that I could avoid an early retur...

How I Accidentally Emigrated and Became a Teacher: Part 1

At 4.30pm on Saturday 7 September 1991, an Aeroflot plane from Moscow touched down on the runway of the old Bangkok Airport of Don Muang, making that familiar ‘squirting’ sound as rubber hit tarmac. On it was me. Weeks of anticipatory excitement had been increasingly building up in...