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June 2006

High-Points

• Back to Shanghai

Well some bad luck hit me.  (I consider myself a very, very, lucky person and have been very lucky for 98% of my life - and I feel lucky about that LOL).  Yanti & I were just starting to get ahead financially here (she'd been able to save over US$1000 in just 6 months from my meager pay - pretty good, huh?!?) when I was told that my hours at EnglishFirst were being cut back DRASTICALLY!  Several reasons were given: more teachers being hired so they're not defendant on just a few teachers; another teaching center is opening in Shanghai and more teachers there; the center here is going to be closed for a month while they update the equipment; etc. 

So, I've decided that I can meet all my commitments here AND save enough to buy a house and a car, all by Sept next year, by taking a job teaching English outside of Bali!  I had been in contact with my old school (Wall Street English) in Shanghai and when I asked about openings there, they jumped on the chance of having me back and made a real nice offer.  So, I leave for Shanghai on Wednesday, June 28^th.  It'll be a one year contract.  Because of our kids being in school, Yanti won't join me right away.   I will look into finding a good school for the kids there and she and the girls may then come in Jan and the kids will go to school in China for 1/2 a year.  What an opportunity for them!

So, of course, I will miss everyone - Yanti and the kids and Bali, very much.  But, I've got to look at the big picture.  Luckily, I know Shanghai very well, after being there already for a year.  I hope to find a nice apartment close to where I'll be working.  Plus, since I taught at WSE already, I really know the system well.

So look for updates from China and lots of pictures with my new camera!

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