Monday, August 26, 2013

Night Before Departure to Teach Abroad

I haven't updated this blog in about a month.  This has mostly been due to a lack of interesting events in my life.

This coming school year, I will be teaching English as a Foreign Language in a public school in Ramle-Lod, Israel.  I'll be teaching at approximately a fifth-grade level.  I'm hoping, when I return to the United States at the end of next June, to have found a place to teach somewhere in a school that needs me.  Specifically, I'd like to teach High School history somewhere.

Tomorrow morning, at 9:29 am, I fly out of Ithaca airport.  If all goes as planned, after stops in Newark and Frankfurt, I should arrive in Ben Gurion Airport, Israel at 3:05 pm local time on Wednesday.  That's a lot of flying, even taking the time zone changes into account, and I expect to be fairly wiped out by the time I arrive.  Somehow, I'll make it to Ramle-Lod, and, I hope, get some real sleep by that time.

I'm very excited; I'm all packed, and hope to have some interesting misadventures to write about soon enough.  Mr. Troy, I know that you'll be at the edge of your seat until then, so I hope to satisfy your curiosity sooner rather than later.

~JD

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