Thoughts from an International Hillbilly

Let’s start this discussion about how two fine people from East Tennessee ended up going overseas to teach/work (and travel).

First, we decided to look at overseas teaching because of a friend that has been working in Cairo and Gaza, off and on for the last 15 years. She has been a headmaster and kept saying good things about the experience. 12 years ago, I went to Egypt and Kuwait to train teachers in her elementary schools in the uses of technology in education.

When we ended up this fall, closing my business and my wife a little burned out with her job at a college, it looked like the time to consider something different. We would have liked to tried retirement and travel but that would take money and time, neither of which we had extra. An adventure in an overseas job, with a chance to see more of the world (and make a little extra money for retirement) was a real draw.