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Before leaving Caledonian School, I tried to present my medical bills for reimbursement. However, the insurance clerk was out sick the week before Christmas. No problem, I was told, just come back in the New Year. This was a bit of an annoyance, since it would have been nice to have the money before Christmas. That, and I didn’t have any other reason to go into that part of town. But there was nothing else to be done.

So, this week, I returned with my bills. And was told that I could not be reimbursed because they had already closed the books for 2008! And everyone I spoke with told me the same story.

I wonder if there’s a National Labor Board to which I can appeal?

I came back from Milan to a web development job that promises to take enough time to interfere with teaching. It also promises to last long enough and pay well enough to make the decision whether or not to continue teaching a no-brainer. And so I have told Caledonian that I won’t be coming back after Christmas.

My students have been gratifyingly upset (or at least disappointed), even to the point of trying to make me feel guilty about abandoning them.

I taught my last two English classes of the academic year this morning. Whew!

Now to take the teacher hat off and put my student hat back on: that’s right, Czech classes for me this summer! What fun.

Just what an ESL teacher needs for vocabulary exercises: this easy (and free!) bit of software for creating crossword puzzles.

I want to be a tutor god!

Seriously, I am thinking about Asia, though not necessary Hong Kong as a teaching venue. Japan, maybe, or Korea?