Ask any ESL teacher that has taught abroad and they’ll tell you that their first few months, heck the first year, is rife with challenges. What happens, though, when the country that you’ve moved to suddenly experiences a health epidemic, like SARS or Avian flu, on a global scale? Do you pack up and go home? Do you stick it out? What do you do? Here’s what happened to me during the 2003 SARS epidemic in Mainland China.
During my first month in China, SARS had already spread to Beijing from Guangdong Province. Beijing was a mere 14-hour train ride from… Read more...
