Just a quickie today:
Now that my daughter is about to graduate high school and head off to college, I anticipate being able to travel whenever I want, wherever I want and for however long I want. My almost finished "project house" up North will serve as my "home base," I will work with Snickers this summer to get him accustomed to a travel crate, then I can just go.
When I first began thinking of my newfound liberation, I thought I would probably travel for speaking engagements and possible book signings, but something really unexpected happened not too long ago that opened up an additional door which very much excites me. Hence, over the last few days, I have been investigating Teaching English in a Foreign Language (TEFL) courses.
Yesterday, as I was perusing my list and trying to make up my mind again, I determined that maybe it would be a good idea to take a course where the TEFL instructor was also a native speaker of English. So I started looking at where the online course providers were headquartered. (Note that most of the courses are formidably expensive, so I was looking at a less expensive, self-taught online one.) The name of the city was one I had never before seen or heard: Phuket. So I called into the kitchen to my mother.
"Hey, Mom, where is..." I sounded out the syllables, "Phuk-et?"
As I heard the cityname escape my lips, I clapped my hand over my mouth. I felt warmth begin rising to my cheeks as I realized I had sounded out, "Fuck it."
"What?" Mom asked.
"Whew!" I silently breathed relief, "Thank goodness she is hard of hearing!"
I quickly changed my question, "Where is P. H. U. K. E. T?"
"Poo-KET," she filled in the name of my spelled word. "It is in Thailand."
Now that my daughter is about to graduate high school and head off to college, I anticipate being able to travel whenever I want, wherever I want and for however long I want. My almost finished "project house" up North will serve as my "home base," I will work with Snickers this summer to get him accustomed to a travel crate, then I can just go.
When I first began thinking of my newfound liberation, I thought I would probably travel for speaking engagements and possible book signings, but something really unexpected happened not too long ago that opened up an additional door which very much excites me. Hence, over the last few days, I have been investigating Teaching English in a Foreign Language (TEFL) courses.
Yesterday, as I was perusing my list and trying to make up my mind again, I determined that maybe it would be a good idea to take a course where the TEFL instructor was also a native speaker of English. So I started looking at where the online course providers were headquartered. (Note that most of the courses are formidably expensive, so I was looking at a less expensive, self-taught online one.) The name of the city was one I had never before seen or heard: Phuket. So I called into the kitchen to my mother.
"Hey, Mom, where is..." I sounded out the syllables, "Phuk-et?"
As I heard the cityname escape my lips, I clapped my hand over my mouth. I felt warmth begin rising to my cheeks as I realized I had sounded out, "Fuck it."
"What?" Mom asked.
"Whew!" I silently breathed relief, "Thank goodness she is hard of hearing!"
I quickly changed my question, "Where is P. H. U. K. E. T?"
"Poo-KET," she filled in the name of my spelled word. "It is in Thailand."
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