num_pages: 215
description: In 1995 after a year of aimless wandering a broke parasite-infested backpacker answered an ad in a newspaper in Bangkok and inadvertently became English Teacher X working in the next five years in seven different cities in five different countries.From the neon-and-vomit-laden streets of Seoul to historic beer-soaked Prague from a tropical island paradise in Thailand to an industrial hellhole of Post-Soviet Russia English Teacher X describes in raw and violent imagery the life of an English teacher overseas encountering dishonest and exploitative employers degenerate colleagues corrupt police gold-hearted prostitutes and cold-hearted English groupies with drugs and alcohol for all while questing in vain for the Authentic Cultural Experience.English Teacher X's world serves as a cautionary tale for young people going overseas to teach or a titillating taste of the many perks of the darker side of English teaching in the early days of the last era of globalism.
language: English
title: To Travel Hopelessly
publisher: None