Teaching Archives - Runaway Brit

Lockdown! A Teacher’s Thoughts on the Corona Pandemic

April 5, 2020April 5, 2020 Bratislava, Europe, Expat, Expat Life, Featured, Health & Fitness, Heartbreak, Life, Relationships, School, Teaching, Working Overseas international teaching, teaching, teaching overseas

It’s been 26 days since my world shut down. It’s been far longer for others. It began slowly. Back, in January, news of an unknown virus in China reached us here in Europe. I barely took

Love in the Time of Coronavirus

March 21, 2020March 22, 2020 Bratislava, Europe, Expat, Expat Life, Featured, Friends and Family, Health & Fitness, Teaching, Working Overseas Bratislava, coronavirus, europe, international teaching, Slovakia, teaching

With coronavirus currently decimating the travel industry, it’s a good time to write about my life as an international teacher instead. I don’t write frequently, because I can't travel full-time like I'd hoped I would

Why I Love Working in Europe (And Never Want to Leave)

October 14, 2019October 15, 2019 Advice, Europe, Expat, Expat Life, Featured, Life, Teaching, Working Overseas europe, expat, international teaching, living overseas, teaching overseas

Recently, I've been reflecting on why I love living in Europe out of all the places I could go. And, yes: publishing this post as Britain perches precariously on the brink of Brexit is ironic.

Exciting News: I’m Moving to India!

January 27, 2014April 10, 2016 Asia, Featured, Teaching, Travelling india, Mumbai, Search Associates, teaching, travelling, work overseas

Judging by the response that I have received from various people to this news, you probably fall into one of the following categories: “India?! Are you crazy?” or “Wow! What an amazing experience!” If I’m

Too Afraid To Seize The Day

January 25, 2014April 13, 2014 Asia, Teaching, Travelling, Working Overseas action, changes, expat, fear, job, life, life overseas, moving, relocating, searching, travel

This is a post that has been languishing in my drafts folder for four months. I have simply been too afraid to post it, because if I post it I have to commit to the

Why I Want to go Back to Japan

September 9, 2012April 10, 2016 Asia, Beaches, Food and Drink, Japan, Nature, Partying, Teaching, Tradition, Travelling, Working Overseas buddhism, festival, food, hiroshima, izu, japan, kyoto, landscape, okomiyaki, peninsula, shintoism, tokyo, travelling

I lived in Tokyo for a year between August 2002 and August 2003 and I can’t believe that it was ten years ago. I had barely used email before I left for Japan, and I

The Life of an International School Teacher

December 30, 2011January 22, 2012 Asia, Literature, School, Teaching, Vietnam, Working Overseas international school, school, students, teaching, working overseas

7 months ago I wrote the post ‘Goodbye Classroom, Hello World!’ because I was taking a break from teaching in order to travel. Now I reflect on the profession that I have temporarily left behind.

Shinto Wedding at the Meiji Jingu Shrine

June 9, 2011June 16, 2011 Asia, Japan, Relationships, Teaching, Travelling asia, japan, japanese wedding, meiji jingu, meiji shrine, shinto wedding, traditional wedding

A walk through the tranquil forest of Yoyogi Park and into the grounds of the Meiji Jingu Shrine in Tokyo's Harajuku district will not only enable you to escape the constant noise of the busy

Goodbye Classroom, Hello World!

June 4, 2011December 30, 2011 Asia, School, Teaching, Travelling, Vietnam, Working Overseas teaching, teaching overseas, TEFL, traveling, travelling, vietnam

Four years ago I was in an auditorium in Vietnam alongside my teaching colleagues and we were listening to a lecture that only served to strengthen my already iron-clad resolve to travel. I don’t think

Free to Travel – How I Broke Free From Debt

May 25, 2011March 12, 2014 Asia, Friends and Family, Teaching, Vietnam, Working Overseas debt, finance, saving, travel, uk, vietnam, working overseas

On the evening of March 15th 2007 I sat in a small bar in Northampton confessing to a friend of mine that I was struggling with debt. I didn’t know how I had reached that

Snow Days

February 11, 2011April 25, 2011 Childhood Memories, Life in Sweden, School, Swedish Climate, Teaching europe, school, snow, snow day, sweden, teaching

Anybody who has attended or worked in a school in the UK will know how exciting it is when the winter brings the first snow, not so much because we love snow but because of

Why English?

January 30, 2011December 30, 2011 Life in Sweden, School, Teaching, Working Overseas english language, teaching

Every year our organisation runs a competition in which the students write an essay in English about a given topic, last year's topic was Science based. This year, students were asked to explore the question

Fika Fridays – Swedish Cake Break!

January 23, 2011December 30, 2011 Food and Drink, Life in Sweden, School, Teaching, Tradition sweden, teaching

Anybody who knows me will know that Fridays are my favourite day of the week. I love Fridays. Not because the weekend begins or even that I only work for 2 hours, but because Friday

Don’t Stop BIS-lieving!

January 16, 2011December 30, 2011 Music, School, Teaching, Vietnam, Working Overseas BIS vietnam, british international school vietnam, saigon, teaching, vietnam

This is my tribute to my friends at BIS, the school I worked in during my time in Vietnam. It's good to remember the fun times :) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NULMiA9z8U

2010s Best Bits

January 1, 2011December 14, 2011 Asia, Life in Sweden, Teaching, Travelling, Vietnam, Working Overseas baltic countries, cambodia, eskilstuna, europe the final countdown, eyjafjallajökull, gröna lund, helsinki, hong kong, iceland volcano, nha trang, partying, qatar airlines, riga, ryanair, saigon ink, serendipity beach, sheridans saigon, sihanoukville, skansen stockholm, stockholm, sweden, tallink silja line, tallinn, tattoo, västerås

What an awesome year this year was. In honour of a great year this blog post recalls some of my favourite moments of 2010 January We welcomed in the New Year with elated cries of

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