What we learn when we struggle
I wrote the following semi-auto-biographical short story for my Masters in Creative Writing, and thought I would share it: You spent the last four weeks learning how to be a teacher. That was it, just four weeks. In a small glass-fronted converted shop, you sat behind small desks and participated in large craft projects and focused learning. And now, jobs acquired, you have just travelled for hours by bus and ferry from Koh Samui, Thailand, to Bangkok, Thailand. You arrived…