In pursuit of wisdom (yet never far from folly)
Just over two years ago (Happy Anniversary to me) I started my blogging ‘career’, with my first entry in the Layman’s Guide to International Relations. At that time I revealed some of the reasons for starting it up. I’ll try not to repeat myself all over again here, but I do want to share a few of the behind-the-scenes internal ruminations that went on in the months before I arrived in Kyrgyzstan in January 2009 to re-embark on an English teaching career that I thought had come to a merciful denouement in June 2008, after my stint in Riga. I feel like I’ve sort of lost direction over the past few months and I’m hoping a name change, a new location and a sprucing-up of the layout will provide a much-needed boost to my waning inspiration. In the beginning… Not to invoke memories of the painful Soviet past, but teaching English was meant to be a ‘Two-Year Plan’ before commencing a more, uh, proper career. So much for that. When my dear friend Asif asked me just a couple of month...