A few entries that we would like to highlight:<\/p>\n Teachers who get hit by the travel bug<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cThere is a category of teacher called Tourist Teachers.\u00a0 These are teachers who only take up a job in an international school because they want to travel that country and have a base to come back to.\u00a0 They tend to only stay a year or two, and then they move on to their next adventure.\u00a0 Then you get another group of international teachers who enjoy soaking up the culture of different peoples and even though they travel and explore, they enjoy being immersed in the culture so they stay longer.\u201d<\/p>\n Sometimes I feel like traveling is the number one goal of international school teachers, well at least for the teachers just starting out in the International School Community<\/a>. Some of the more veteran teachers at an international school tend to not travel as much as the newbies.\u00a0 The longer you stay at an international school, the less likely you will be traveling during your many holidays.\u00a0 That is not true for everyone, but that is the trend that I have seen at the current and past international schools that I\u2019ve worked at.\u00a0 Sometimes it is all about the location and the experience living in that location.\u00a0 I have noticed that the vast majority of people that move to a city in this world, move there because they intended to move there at some point in their life.\u00a0 People like us tend to dedicate our lives to a language for example (let\u2019s say Spanish).\u00a0 A typical place for that type of a person to end up living (even if it is just for a short time) is a country that speaks that language that they have been studying for many years (Spanish).\u00a0 Many international school teachers do take risks though and accept positions in countries that they know nothing about; they definitely didn\u2019t study about the language there and know very little about the culture there either.\u00a0 That doesn\u2019t stop the travel bug in them though, exploring a land you know nothing about can be quite exciting for an international school teacher.\u00a0 We like to travel to the unusual places in the world.\u00a0 International school teachers are risk-takers and like the exploring of places a typical tourist wouldn\u2019t normally travel to.\u00a0 Sometimes the travel bug is so intense that staying at home during one, even just one, of their holidays is just not an option.<\/em><\/p>\n A visit to a Tanzanian Hospital<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n \u201c<\/strong>All I can say is that I am pleased I wasn\u2019t seriously ill or dying.\u00a0 If I was I would have died trying to open a file.<\/p>\n My appointment with the visiting dermatologist from the UK was at 10am.\u00a0 I was told to open a file first.\u00a0 Nobody actually explained the process of opening a file to me, and believe you me, there is a process!\u00a0 At 8.30am I stood in a queue that moved forward painfully slowly as there are always people who join the queue from the side, and always join it in front of you.\u00a0 After fifteen minutes the queue dissolved and expanded sideways into a mass of people all pushing and shoving to get to the front.\u00a0 After elbowing my way to the front after what seemed to be an unusually long time of jostling, I was told to go to the next window.\u00a0 Another queue just as wide as it was deep.\u00a0 Have I ever mentioned how I hate waiting?\u00a0 And I couldn\u2019t even read my Kindle because I had to stand the whole time and try and keep my place by using my elbows to keep out those trying to push in.\u00a0 Luckily, I\u00a0perfected the skill of elbowing during numerous train trips to Shanghai when I lived in China.<\/p>\n When I finally got to the front of the second queue, I was told to go back to the first queue.\u00a0 I nearly burst into tears.\u00a0 My chest started closing and I could feel a panic attack developing.\u00a0 By this time it was 10.15.\u00a0 I had been queueing for an hour and forty-five minutes and had achieved nothing.\u00a0 Like a sheep I joined the next queue, in my heart knowing it was a waste of time.\u00a0 If I didn\u2019t have this strange growth jutting out of me I would have left.\u00a0 A kind nurse in another queue asked me if I had a piece of pink paper.\u00a0 Of course I didn\u2019t!\u00a0 Why would I have a piece of pink paper?\u00a0 Apparently, they only help people with a pink paper.\u00a0 You have to first get a piece of pink paper from the department you are visiting, in my case, the dermatology department.\u00a0 Nobody had thought to tell me this.\u00a0 Two hours of my life wasted.\u00a0 I hate that.<\/p>\n The nurse called someone to take me to dermatology, two car parks and three buildings away.<\/p>\n Now clutching the piece of pink paper, I once again joined the queue.\u00a0 Some people who had been queueing almost as long as me took pity and let me go to the front and push my piece of pink paper through the little window.\u00a0 I saw why the whole process took so long.\u00a0 No computers in sight, everything written by hand.\u00a0 Painstakingly.\u00a0 Cindy was written down as Cinci.\u00a0 At that stage I was beyond caring.\u00a0 It was already 11am.\u00a0 I had been there since 8.30am.\u00a0 After handing in my paper I was told to sit down and wait.\u00a0 At last I could read my Kindle.\u00a0 After fifteen minutes I decided it might be a good idea to try and find out what happens next.\u00a0 I once again rejoined the queue at the second window where it appeared you had to pay.\u00a0 Of course, being a foreigner I knew I would get charged a lot more than the locals.\u00a0 Another nurse who had been in the queue at 8.30am came into the waiting area.\u00a0 \u201cOh Mama you are still here!\u00a0 I have been and gone, been and gone and am already bringing in a new patient!\u201d\u00a0 My smile was a little sickly.\u00a0 It was 11.20am.\u201d<\/p>\n Going to hospitals in other countries (even if they are \u201cexpat\u201d hospitals with mostly English-speaking doctors) can be quite the experience.\u00a0 I for one have had relatively very good experiences going to hospitals in the countries that I have lived in.\u00a0 We have to remember too that many hospitals in the USA also have their problems; 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\n<\/strong>Currently, there are 9 international schools listed on our website, with 5 of them being schools that have had information and comments submitted on them.\u00a0 Check out the submitted comments about these schools here<\/a>.<\/p>\n