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Calculus in the Congo

Adventures while Teaching and Traveling on the African Continent

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Calculus in the Congo

By: Jashanananda
Narrated by: Jashanananda
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About this listen

I type "International Teaching Jobs" on the Google search line and find several sites, but I decide on one particularly useful site for which I pay a slight fee, and I find myself looking at a long list of teaching jobs all over the world. "Anything in Latin America," my wife asks, coming in to the room. "No, but here's one in the Congo." "Africa!?" "Yea, really. They want a calculus teacher! I can do that!" "Okay," Chantal says tentatively. "If you want." I hit the submit button and my resume is off across the world.

What follows are four action-packed years of living, working and traveling in sub-Saharan Africa.

This book chronicles the first year and a half of these adventures, including the day-to-day life of a teacher at The American School of Kinshasa from 2005-2007 who deals with a marginal infrastructure, the everyday challenges of living in a war-torn third-world country, and adventures in Zimbabwe, South Africa, Mozambique and Ethiopia.

©2016 Jashan Blackwell (P)2016 Jashan Blackwell Africa Childhood Education Education Secondary Education Adventure

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I have listened to a very large number of audio books and this is only the second one that I have given up on.

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