Horse? Whats this about a Horse, 'Mate'? I drive a Car. A nice French one. 10 years old but great fun.

Look , I worked at EIU for 6 months and left because of personal reasons. No notice. Left. One of the bad guys doing the bad guy thing that would be seen as a bad guy thing to do in any institution. I had a great time there, the students were great, I think I worked hard enough to bring them up to the levels required and fought hard enough in the discussions - and they were fairly democratic discussions -,to decide whether or not the 'failures' should be advanced up to the next level regardless of their marks in the exams. This is normal in any school. Think of the Viva system at University, sorry kittens, I went to a real University, Edinburgh, where we did those things.

If anyone has struggled this far to find out about EIU my advice is to go there. The students are great, hard-working, committed. Your fellow teachers are generally OK, there are the usual bunch of careerists and 'oh fuck what happened to my career' ists as pointed out before but if you are serious you can get above that. There are/were also a great bunch of teachers who knew how to enjoy themselves too, even the 'married' ones. Get out there, enjoy Thu Dau Mot - avoid the 4 or so expat bars in TDM where all the expat whingers congregate, with the exception of the legendary Harry's where the great mans personality transcends everything, avoid the ex=pats, teach at EIU and get on in the world.

Have fun.

Zero and Out.