and then insisted they had to get home. Before they
left， they invited teachers to help themselves to the How I Got My First
limited number of brochures and applications that Job In England
they had spread out on the table in front of them. (Friends)
Like customers at a department store sale， the
teachers mobbed the table， snatching up whatever
information was available. Friends can get you jobs. During my first
I realized two things. I wasn t the only teacher year of teaching at Bonanza High School in Las
eager to escape the U.S. public school system and Vegas l met Bill Moody. We shared many
seek an alternative teaching position Overseas， and conversations about traveling and working
I had had Considerable experience and success overseas. As the year drew to a close， he told me
locating jobs. The result of that realization is this that he was moving to England with his wife and
small book. daughter. He also told me that if I made it to Paris
that summer--the trip I had planned ten years
It is my hope that the information presented before--to stop in on them. He gave me his in-
here will help you fulfill your dream to live and
laws phone number. They lived in Deal， a small
willW~rkgive~VerseaS you SomeP~SsiblYidea seeingof whath~Wis requiredI managedandit town located on the English seacoast. I had never
whom to contact， heard of it， and thought I would never visit there，
I wish you the best of luck. but I wrote the number down in my phone book.
.Inn Muckle (Make note of these seemingly insignificant events.
They are opportunities in the making.) Bill， his
wife， Jo， and their daughter， Mara， departed.
~ ~ -- Two months later with eight hundred dollars in
~ travelers checks， a Mastercard worth another five
hundred dollars， and my first free summer， I flew
.f ~ to London. Aboard the train to Dover， where I
~r~:.i..，， ~t I should call Bill. After all， we were only
.(/， il acquaintances sharing an office， and I didn t want
~~~.~ !I) to impose on him.
~-~~~\": I rented a room in Canterbury. After having
dinner and a pint of beer， I decided to press on to
Paris the following day. I knew that my finances
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