After my lifelong track record of making bad choices, wrong turns, and a habit of being in the wrong place at the wrong time, I'm sure most of you have heard by now that I have just made my worst bad choice and wrong turn--throwing away my life in the USA to teach English to school children in China. I don't know what possessed me to do this, either. But then I don't know what possessed me to take a gap year after high school, waste 6.5 years obtaining a lowly BA in history, humiliate myself in Dubai, pick the wrong internship in Washington, devote 6 months to the failed prospect of COP15, and generally mismanage my life to the point of my becoming a global drifter with few prospects of ever living a settled and
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