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    A Very Late Gap Year In Taiwan

    By P. R. Travis

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    At 31 something was missing from my life. I was dropping out of engineering graduate school and drifting aimlessly through life’s troubled waters, inexorably toward what I used to consider middle age. But I had no kids, no wife, and no career. Something had to change. That change, I decided, was going to be a gap year overseas. I scoured the internet for all the information I could find on teaching ESL in Asia. I and already been to Europe in college (the first time), and there was just something about the women on the other side of the Pacific.

    I’d be lying if I said all the information that I found was tinted rose, but compared to grad school, it was rosy enough for me at the time. I bought a one way ticket for Taiwan, I signed a one year contract with a school called Gloria in Taoyuan County, and I quit after 10 months to fly home again. I also went on numerous blind dates, met a girl, taught kindergarten, traveled to the ruins in Cambodia, hiked all over the the east and south coasts of Taiwan, and tried to learn Mandarin. I also wrote a book so that the reading public can learn from and laugh at my many, many, mistakes.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherP. R. Travis
    Release dateMar 31, 2015
    ISBN9781310756306
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    A Very Late Gap Year In Taiwan
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    P. R. Travis

    I am a former aerospace engineer. I have studied at various universities on the eastern seaboard to obtain various engineering degrees, but I have always felt the need to experience the world in a way that cannot be done as a white collared professional. And so it was that I dropped out of grad school in 2013 and followed my dreams to East Asia. Boy was that a mistake. But it wasn't. I was going to drop out of grad school anyway, and while in Asia I learned a lot about life, the world, myself, and other people. I met a girl. I kept a blog. I spent a total of about 13 months in Taiwan during the period between July of 2013 and January of 2015. For part of the time in 2014 I was regaining my sanity in New Hampshire through the zen of carpentry and writing - both my first book: A Very Late Gap Year In Taiwan - and my second: a sic-fi novel set in the (decimal) year 36,148 on Earth, as yet not edited and not published. Feel free to visit the ole blog for the stuff that was not good enough to make it into the book, or else was heavily edited and reorganized, or else didn't fit in to the theme. Linked above. Or Below. I'm not sure where this website will put it.

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